GUEST EDITORS
Zanta Nkumane, Nadia Bongo, and Joshua Thermidor
COVER IMAGE
Photography: Ibrahim Ben Saïd Camara
ILLUSTRATOR
Mòje Ikpeme
IN THIS ISSUE
FICTION
Benjamin Cyril Arthur, Rabi’atu Yakubu, Josiah Ikpe, Rebecca Emiru, Suad Kamardeen
POETRY
Loic Ekinga, Arao Ameny, David Emeka, Susan Goffe, Frank Njugi, Amanda Nechesa
NONFICTION
Melba Morel, Haruna Solomon Binkam, Wambui Waldhauser, Chimezie Umeoka, Ezioma Kalu
VISUAL
Taslimah Woli, Mike Wheeler
INTRODUCTION
The Silences We Carry
Introduction to Issue 11 by the Guest Editors:
Zanta Nkumane, Nadia Bongo and Joshua Thermidor
FICTION
From Grindr, With Love
Benjamin Cyril Arthur
Ring a Ring o’Roses
Rabi’atu Yakubu
Flight
Josiah Ikpe
We Make Our Own Rules
Rebecca Emiru
Even If It’s Between Two Mountains
Suad Kamardeen
POETRY
But First, Joy & Other Poems
Loic Ekinga
The Kidney Tree & Other Poems
Arao Ameny
Sisyphean Task & Other Poems
Frank Njugi
Dream Hunter & Other Poems
Susan Goffe
Autofiction & Other Poems
David Emeka
I Will Show You How Colours Are Born
Amanda Nechesa
NONFICTION
Northward, Against Your Better Judgement
Haruna Solomon Binkam
The Body Remembers What It Was Never Given
Melba Morel
God Sleeps in Sunday Street
Chimezie Umeoka
My Body Owes Me An Apology
Ezioma Kalu
This Little Land of Mine
Wambui Waldhauser
VISUAL
The Other Side of Silence
Mike Wheeler
Silent Dialogue
Taslimah Woli