UTOPIAN SYMPHONY by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche
Open your mouths let your tongues taste the morning dew’s, farm fresh from heaven’s dock let it kiss your lips with its misty chill, so your charred rims would come...
CHANGE by El Sane Ken Silencer
Ah! Men are wailing women are whooPing Children are crying no one is watching... Who is beating all? Recession! Father cried back when I talked broke... I wanted to meat...
THE LOVER’S PRAYER by Joshua Levites
Hallowed be your name, Princess Thy kingdom has come unto me, My eyes have seen the gospel of your beauteousness. The intensity of your awesomeness Implodes every bit of ego...
OSU by Ololade Akinlabi
Daughter of Osu, Our father is a prudent squanderer, Spends today prior tomorrow surfaces, 'Tomorrow shall hold another blessing;' Hitherto, tomorrow comes with barrenness. And the calabash was bountifully emptied,...
BOYS OF SHATTERED DREAMS by Jonathan Otamere Endurance
after Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau’s “For boys who went' For Boys of Shattered Dreams... Their bones fragment on earth's closure Like the punctured walls of Borno — A preposition of dreams...
LUVVIE’S ‘I’M JUDGING YOU’ IS A HUMOROUS GUIDE AGAINST IGNORANCE — a review by Shoola Oyindamola
TITLE: I’M JUDGING YOU AUTHOR: LUVVIE AJAYI GENRE: Op-Ed NUMBER OF PAGES: 256 PUBLISHER: Holt Paperbacks DATE OF PUBLICATION: September 13, 2016 ISBN: 978-1627796064 REVIEWER: Shoola Oyindamola If more books...
‘FUNNY MEN CANNOT BE TRUSTED’ IS ANOTHER GAME CHANGER FROM TOLU AKINYEMI — a review by Shoola Oyindamola
TITLE: FUNNY MEN CANNOT BE TRUSTED AUTHOR: TOLU AKINYEMI GENRE: Poetry NUMBER OF PAGES: 159 PUBLISHER: Heart of Words UK DATE OF PUBLICATION: February 9, 2017 ISBN: 978-9785359763 REVIEWER: Shoola...
PYROKARDIA’S ‘BROKEN WISHBONES & EMPTY SPACES’ UNRAVELS THE MELANCHOLY IN LOVE — a review by Shoola Oyindamola
TITLE: BROKEN WISHBONES & EMPTY SPACES AUTHOR: PYROKARDIA (OGUNFOWODU OLUFEMI) GENRE: Poetry NUMBER OF PAGES: PUBLISHER: CreateSpace DATE OF PUBLICATION: January 22, 2017 ISBN: 978-1539668152 REVIEWER: Shoola Oyindamola It is...
RESONANCE by Efe Ogufere
Your eyes wear mascara lines Open them and free the lashes Unclad, my emotions lay bare Calm my athletic pulse A butterfly sheds its cocoon No tears wanderlust Cold winds...
BIG BRIGITTE, PRICELESS POIRSON by Ebi Robert
Brigitte, the African Abcoulomb Igniting the darling design of our Acanthi Giant voice in my soundless Beginning Bigger for any write-hand adverb Raining rain on the raining tour Icing on...