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.
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 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.
BETWEEN THE STRANGE AND THE FAMILIAR | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ review of ʼPemi Agudaʼs Ghostroots by Sima Essien
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.
“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.
WHAT DOES LOVE MEAN? | A Review of Uche Uwadinachi’s ‘The Constituency of Your Lips’
In “The Constituency of Your Lips”, love goes further than romantic attraction; it becomes a search for truth, an attempt to, as the author himself puts it “interrogate that fragile space where love and leadership intersect — where the personal meets the political.”
SATIRE AND SEED: THE UNENDING BLOOM OF COLONIALISM | A Review of Tares Oburumu’s ‘Flora’s Love Colony’
The poems are an adventure into the vast world of interracial affairs, producing for their immediacy the obsession with cultural integrity and boundary sensibility. This in itself is not the ultimate denunciation of the interference so addressed; rather, it undergirds the multiple thematic tours from personal to societal concerns.
STUDIOS OF SURVIVAL: A READING OF MOREMI FOLAKE AKANO’S ‘A WOMAN’S STUDIO’ by Soji Cole
Moremi [Folake] Akano's A Woman's Studio is a slim chapbook of short but impactful poems, what one can call poetic vignettes that transform the often overlooked spaces of women's labour...
“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.