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.
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.
Ordeal | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ poem by Timileyin Adepoju
Bodies will yawn off the absence of sleep.
The earth will gurgle urgencies of feet
Current I & II | two CỌ́N-SCÌÒ poems by Babatunde Adeleke
You walk up
and my body already knows
which way the water is trying to go.
The Weight of Our Steps | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ short story by Christian Emecheta
Kiano stood frozen beside me; his young face became a mask of horror. At that moment, I saw him transform from a child into something else – a survivor who had witnessed too much death.
Salvation | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ poem by Sarah Adeyemo
Lord, I am young, and I’m searching
for forever in your eyes. Look beyond my hands
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.
How To Mend a Broken Body | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ poem by Sofiat Omowumi Ramon
I ask the universe how to mend a broken body,…
A Dark Quinquennial | a CỌ́N-SCÌÒ short story by Ibrahim Oga
Kiano stood frozen beside me; his young face became a mask of horror. At that moment, I saw him transform from a child into something else – a survivor who had witnessed too much death.