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Day: November 8, 2022

TIME TO PIPE PEPPERY VERSES — OF LUSH IMAGERIES, ORIGINAL & WITTY METAPHORS | A Review of James Eze’s NLNG Prize 2022 Longlisted “dispossessed” by Ugochukwu Anadi
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TIME TO PIPE PEPPERY VERSES — OF LUSH IMAGERIES, ORIGINAL & WITTY METAPHORS | A Review of James Eze’s NLNG Prize 2022 Longlisted “dispossessed” by Ugochukwu Anadi

Staff WriterNovember 8, 2022November 15, 2022

dispossessed, with lush imageries and original and witty metaphors presents us with the chronicles of Eze’s growth as a poet, his intellectual maturation and the heights of his social consciousness.

OF IMAGINATIONS & IMBIBING: A BOOK LOVER’S TRIBUTE TO AFRICA’S FINEST AUTHORS | an essay by Enit’ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya
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OF IMAGINATIONS & IMBIBING: A BOOK LOVER’S TRIBUTE TO AFRICA’S FINEST AUTHORS | an essay by Enit’ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya

Staff WriterNovember 8, 2022November 10, 2022

They merged all the way from my childhood and became the flame in my rocket today.  It is only natural that, like murals, their portraits keep surfacing in my works, and yet, they leave me whole, undefiled, true, the writer child they had raised.

A LETTER TO MY MOTHER | a short story by Abdulrazaq Salihu
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A LETTER TO MY MOTHER | a short story by Abdulrazaq Salihu

Staff WriterNovember 8, 2022November 8, 2022

Mother, I fear I have lost a whole lot of contacts and relationships as a mango tree loses its leaves. Our street looks smaller now. It is now a strange place even to people like me who once had only its scent inflected in their nostrils.

A STAR & A SUN: TRIBUTE TO CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE | art by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
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A STAR & A SUN: TRIBUTE TO CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE | art by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson

Staff WriterNovember 8, 2022November 8, 2022

Chimamanda has been a Star & A Sun [from the East] lighting the path for many Nigerian writers, myself inclusive.

BEHIND THE SPECTACLES: WOLE SOYINKA & CHINUA ACHEBE | art by Ibrahim Ajani Lawal
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BEHIND THE SPECTACLES: WOLE SOYINKA & CHINUA ACHEBE | art by Ibrahim Ajani Lawal

Staff WriterNovember 8, 2022November 8, 2022

This set of artworks on the other hand attempts to recreate yesterday and reimagine tomorrow under today’s watch. Since literature is a mirror of society, this series strives to project the views, thoughts, and imaginations of leaders—writers—who see through the lenses of others.

OSOFISAN | a poem by Overcomer Ibiteye
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OSOFISAN | a poem by Overcomer Ibiteye

Staff WriterNovember 8, 2022November 8, 2022

my matchbox world gives my family light from my moon
for we are soluble in this water of being

VERSES FOR SAGES | a poem by Peter Itanka
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VERSES FOR SAGES | a poem by Peter Itanka

Staff WriterNovember 8, 2022November 8, 2022

D is for D.O. Fagunwa, the bullroarer who rode in his pen horse for an Expedition To The Mountain Of Thought. D is also for Dele, the town crier whose large bell rings out: Do Not Die in Their War.

PACESETTER | a poem by Adedire Adekunle Peter
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PACESETTER | a poem by Adedire Adekunle Peter

Staff WriterNovember 8, 2022November 8, 2022

If You Must Set Forth At Dawn
Rise before the sun will smirk at your courage
Of a poet that birthed this madness

CHIMAMANDA OF THE EAST | a poem by John Kote
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CHIMAMANDA OF THE EAST | a poem by John Kote

Staff WriterNovember 8, 2022November 8, 2022

You are not a single story
Patience and pain have courted you to the gravestones of dearly beloved
Grief is not brief, take notes

A BIRD OF PANEGYRICS SINGS OF LEGENDS | a poem by Olajuwon Joseph Olumide
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A BIRD OF PANEGYRICS SINGS OF LEGENDS | a poem by Olajuwon Joseph Olumide

Staff WriterNovember 8, 2022November 8, 2022

these souls live on,
with immortal footprints on this terrain of african poetics
embodying our narrative experiences.

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CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘PACESETTERS’ [ISSUE 2, VOL. 2 | OCTOBER 2022]

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Words Rhymes & Rhythm Ltd. (RC 1234112), is a foremost publishing and educational institution that supports and promotes Nigerian writers and writings talents through several initiatives like contests, prizes, and an annual literary festival. Our publishing susbsidiary is AUTHORPEDIA.

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