A dog that lost its home came back to bite its owner –
they say it is because the owner did not make any attempts to find it.
‘AN EXTRA NOTE ON THE NAIRA NOTE’ / ‘HOW TO HELP YOUR CORNTREE’ / ‘LIKE 20 NAIRA NOTE, WE SQUEEZE NIGERIA INTO YOUR PALM’ / ‘THE COOKING POT’ | four poems by Noble Alobu
Tonight / i fall on my knees / my face to the setting sun / beseeching
the old man / who the earth is his footstool: / lord / like 20 naira note / we
squeeze nigeria into your palm / oyigiyigi / keep it for us!
I Am Rainbow | a short story by Collins Ozara
“Have you ever been with a woman?” I didn’t know how to respond. She startled me, and then she kissed my collarbone. My skin tingled with goosebumps at her every touch, and she made her way to my nipples.
Rivers In the Desert | a short story by Mohammed Taoheed
The whirling wind whispered his sagacious sapience in books, and plethoric eyes pleaded assertingly that he dabbled into politics. Like all misologists, he leapt pronto, and he was made the mayor of a state in his sod, UAR.