Glissade

Suffering Is Literature’s Big Game

July 10, 2024

Apropos of writing an essay on the experience of plodding through a difficult time in my life, I have been thinking about what suffering means for the artist. The process of writing that essay, as one would expect, was a dark affair layered with distress and pain. I wrote in spurts, never steadily, as both …

The Baptism

February 9, 2023

The baby, nameless still in this model of spirituality, and his parents, Sarah and Fabian, catechists at Saint Mary’s parish, sit in the front pew. The baby’s godfather and uncle, who is Uche elsewhere, but not on this day, not in this ritual where he must be Silas, sits behind the baby’s parents. There is …

The Trials Of A Witch

July 18, 2023

She knew it was me who took our stepmom’s bottle of kayan mata and poisoned it.

Three Photographs

October 18, 2025

Everything was planned. She had forced death’s hand to travel from left to right.

Mourning

July 18, 2023

A few hours later, you were trying to rebuke grief. You smiled, leg-working, lori iro…

What Hope Is

February 15, 2023

The sun burns brightest on the morning after a night-time rainstorm. That Thursday in June, when my partner and I awoke to find our Surulere apartment windows washed clean by rain, with the glass slats sparkling in the sunlight and the floor tiles as dry as an ark’s insides, we decided to celebrate our good …

ISSUES

Subscribe to the Efiko Newsletter

Subscribe

From the Archives

Join Us