AFRICA: IN THE LIGHT OF GAGUT by Nnamdi Amasiatu
GAGUT - [God Almighty Grand Unified Theorem] Africa, my motherland and my rest My abode of homely deeds Carrying and harboring your children in your chest I am still yet to...
A SONG OF COLOR by Efe Ogufere
I am the black, The humus deep within the earth, The life and succor to a dying seed The hope of a thousand souls that draw breath Melanin in tears...
AFRICAN AUTHORS DON’T WRITE BOOKS OF INTEREST — Ray Ndebi
Ray Ndebi is a Cameroon writer and reviewer. He is the author of THE LAST GHOST: Son of Struggle, a novel. Ndebi lives in Yaoundé and works online with many...
BROTHER by Hannatu Adamu
Have you forgotten so soon, That we were once one, Living as would a family, Having the same hands Wearing the same face, And most importantly, The same skin colour?...
OH AFRI-CA! by Godspromise Effiong
Let's talk Africa Don't stalk Africa Our battles are fought With religion in guise Let's talk pain Let's talk stain With so much fury Wards languish in penury Let's talk...
A REPORTER FROM ZAIRE by Efe Ogufere
Her palms are sweaty… His are dry and firm, how can he be so calm? She is all he ever wanted in a woman…he often quipped. Why the foreboding feeling...
ORDER OF THE DAY by Akodu Oluwaseun Shedrack
When days were still days indeed. When common man's food was at hand When we drank palmwine with one calabash. When we had our nights without head-lost There is an...
BACK IN THIS PLACE by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
I’m back in this place where the moon rejoices at the hearing of melodious lullabies sung into the cranium of crying babies who are stuck to mother’s backs at the...
IN THOSE DAYS by Micheal Jacob
In those days when our fathers carried woods on bicycles When under the mango tress serves as relaxation centres Palm wine as red wine, cola nuts serve as chocolates Cleaning...
WE WILL RETURN by Michael Inioluwa Oladele
We are on the way to the farm The enemy ridges are calling us the creepers seduce our legs but we move on, up we climb up the Everest we...