I found out that people like me have stories and if people could tell stories of ordinary children like me living in Enugu, I would love to read more stories like that. African literature has always been that for me. I didn’t read a lot of foreign books
I am thrilled to engage in a thought-provoking conversation with the immensely talented Ukata Edwardson, a remarkable queer nonbinary poet from Nigeria. Edwardson’s distinct voice
Not all books start with a really nice dedication, but Bridges are for burning does. It goes: As a young girl, I presumed I would
Can one live again, after already living and dying before? Abubakar Adam Ibrahim answers this question in his latest speculative fiction- When We Were Fireflies.
All eight stories that make up the anthology explore the nuances of queerness through a Nigerian lens, imbuing each narrative with an air of hopefulness. Feel Good is available to read for free here.
One of the 23 contributors to the anthology, the Nigerian Kemi Lade in “Catharsis” speaks of “sexistential crisis,” a term she used to describe her earliest state of mind discovering she is a bisexual.
There are many more soldiers who have died from ambushes. Sometimes, survivors who were spared death suffer more. These things are reported in the news. I think that we have lost the capacity to feel them
The play smoothly follows the call and inspection of each soul. First, a woman, whose end is ushered in by her pitiable gullibility.
August, an ostensibly quirky boy, grows up in a house with exuberant sisters, an apathetic father, and no mother. In that loss, his mother’s loss, a loss he never knew yet knew so well, he asks questions:
It is not typical for short stories to yank you tightly and wring you into worlds you never knew because they are fleeting, but Troy’s stories stay with you, his characters alive in your head.
I found out that people like me have stories and if people could tell stories of ordinary children like me living in Enugu, I would love to read more stories like that. African literature has always been that for me. I didn’t read a lot of foreign books
I am thrilled to engage in a thought-provoking conversation with the immensely talented Ukata Edwardson, a remarkable queer nonbinary poet from Nigeria. Edwardson’s distinct voice
Not all books start with a really nice dedication, but Bridges are for burning does. It goes: As a young girl, I presumed I would
Can one live again, after already living and dying before? Abubakar Adam Ibrahim answers this question in his latest speculative fiction- When We Were Fireflies.
All eight stories that make up the anthology explore the nuances of queerness through a Nigerian lens, imbuing each narrative with an air of hopefulness. Feel Good is available to read for free here.
One of the 23 contributors to the anthology, the Nigerian Kemi Lade in “Catharsis” speaks of “sexistential crisis,” a term she used to describe her earliest state of mind discovering she is a bisexual.
There are many more soldiers who have died from ambushes. Sometimes, survivors who were spared death suffer more. These things are reported in the news. I think that we have lost the capacity to feel them
The play smoothly follows the call and inspection of each soul. First, a woman, whose end is ushered in by her pitiable gullibility.
August, an ostensibly quirky boy, grows up in a house with exuberant sisters, an apathetic father, and no mother. In that loss, his mother’s loss, a loss he never knew yet knew so well, he asks questions:
It is not typical for short stories to yank you tightly and wring you into worlds you never knew because they are fleeting, but Troy’s stories stay with you, his characters alive in your head.
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