Gathering of Spirits & Other Poems Umar Abubakar Sidi Gathering of Spirits During my first trip to Cuba, in 1944as a child, I observed that different orders of realityappear to disturb the dreams besetby the Orisha and ancestral spirits of African origin A painter...
The Daily Chaos of an Anxious Life Rockebah C Stewart Sometimes, I look back at my life at eighteen and wonder: if I knew the struggles that were ahead, would I have made the same decisions? Would I have remained in Grenada, satisfied with only an Associate Degree?...
A Spectator of a Cherished Intimacy Uzoma Ihejirika On the night your father went missing, a friend in whose house you’d been squatting had kicked you out. It was the live-in maid who informed Kamsiyochukwu, your younger brother, who in turn passed the message to you....
Ndizamile Anathi Jongilanga Mama, you know there is no one in this world I love more than you. Head bowed, Nozamile nods, gives Siviwe a sidelong look – urging, cautious – from under the hand whose fingers smoothen the creases on her forehead. The sound of...
to my friend dead Adenike Akande Of all the bodies to be put out of motion, it should not have beenyours:wire-beanstalk traipsing thoughts like giants descendingearth to confound it – me.Otherwise I would scale your form into your house findingprecious and tacky...
