These photographs trace the currents that move through London—the flow of people, light, architecture, memory, and time. Together, they capture a city in transit, where every street becomes a channel and every passerby part of a larger movement.
A POET DIED ON THIS PAGE | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ review of Adetimilehin Inioluwa Victor’s ‘Poetry Has All My Pain’ and ‘Love Through the Eyes of a Village Boy’ by Jide Badmus
Fathers are the first point of mentorship to their sons, but Vic’Adex’s verses consistently reiterate his desire not to be anything like his father. The rebellion balances on the brink of denial.
Soliloquy At Owu | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ poem by Chinecherem Enujioke
the gods had struck themselves deaf,
blind, and dumb.
the thin line between a heartbeat, & the fragile hands of machines | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ poem by Felix Eshiet
to be born early
is to wrestle with time itself
On The Benue | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ poem by Servio Gbadamosi
the gods had struck themselves deaf,
blind, and dumb.
when you imagined yourself an iceberg | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ poem by MK Kuol
Tomorrow will bring another loose edge,
a rip of ordinary time wanting a hand.
She will answer with thread, with patience,
with the soft thunder of a machine at work.
If Speaking Against Misogyny Makes Me Less of a Man, Then Picture Me In A Skirt | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ essay by Boakye D. Alpha
How many women and girls have had to suffer at the hands of one man or another because of ‘just a joke’? How much disrespect would you subject a woman’s body to, because you wanted to have a play day?
The Tailor’s Gospel | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ poem by Akindutire Elizabeth Abosede
Tomorrow will bring another loose edge,
a rip of ordinary time wanting a hand.
She will answer with thread, with patience,
with the soft thunder of a machine at work.
THE PENUMBRA OF SOCIO-CULTURAL FAILURES | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ review of Moonbeam: Anthology of Short Stories by Izang Alexander Haruna
Moonbeam is way beyond that nomenclature of emerging narratives. It is a foregrounding of viable traditional modes and patterns in what bearers of a value system believe about a world that works.
TO PRESERVE, OR (NOT) TO KILL | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ review of Uzoamaka J. Eze’s Half Open Lid by Godsgift Isaiah
…the suggestion that feminism leads to lesbianism and fosters hostility towards men, or that gender identity can be altered through violence, presents a reductive and problematic view of these concepts.