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.
On The Benue | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ poem by Servio Gbadamosi
the gods had struck themselves deaf,
blind, and dumb.
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 CONFLUENCE: HOMEWARDS ACROSS THE NIGER | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ photospeak by Caleb Ishaya Oseshi
This photographic project documents the lived realities of a community whose daily commute home involves crossing the waters where Nigeria’s two greatest rivers merge.
An Ehi Speaks | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ short story by Adesuwa Agbonile
And then one morning, the ground on top of my grandfather softened into a mouth, and from it came a wheezing laugh. I had done it. I ran to my lab and saw that my computers were tracking the movements inside the glass box. They told me that the ions in my box were spinning. They were spinning, and they would never stop.
“A Language That Cannot Describe The Modern World Will Be Abandoned“ | A CỌ́N-SCÌÒ Magazine Interview with Àrẹ̀mọ Gemini
Custodians must expand the language by creating new metaphors, adapting it to technology, film, music, literature, and scholarship. A language that cannot describe the modern world will be abandoned. A custodian makes sure Yorùbá can talk about today without losing its soul or getting watered down.
“The Currency of Time”: An Introduction to ‘CURRENT’ — CỌ́N-SCÌÒ Magazine (June 2026) by Su’ur Su’eddie Vershima Agema
…this issue is a glorious harvest that shows the currency of time as a convergence of many streams: the past flowing into the future, tradition meeting innovation, private memory encountering public history, and individual voices joining larger conversations
EVIDENCE | a poem by Egwuchukwu Faith
She was called a bride
before she was called a girl.
“History Books Cannot Be Trusted, So We Must Write Our Own Stories…“ | A CỌ́N-SCÌÒ Magazine Interview with Nana Sule
We have to write. History books cannot be trusted. We must write our stories, weave them into art, painting, poems—because at the very least, we have to let it be known that we tried. That we resisted. That we didn’t want this to happen, but it did.
Reading Impunity As Nigeria’s Truth | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ review of Faith Ose Ebhodaghe’s ‘Impunity’ by Izang Alexander Haruna
The thing with impunity is that everyone suffers from its existence… Impunity touches everyone in one way or another.