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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 …

A First Son Responds To An Ebonyi Man’s Violence

March 4, 2024

But I saw my father’s face in their words, his bulging forehead, his yellow eyeballs that widened in their sockets each time he was furious. I remember challenging him to a fist fight.

The Utility of Speculative Fiction

February 5, 2023

All writing is speculative. No matter how grounded in history or current reality; even nonfiction requires a reimagining, a speculation on what we think we know. I sit comfortably with ‘speculative fiction’ as a way of seeing rather than a genre because it is impossible for me to divorce it from everyday life. Consider Harry …

A Different Kind of Bliss

July 10, 2024

She imagined that she was Mary on the run to Egypt to save Baby Jesus.

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