Issue 02
Editors’ Note
After deciding on the pieces for the second issue of Efiko Magazine, we realised the sheer breadth of themes covered. You’ll find one corper’s experience of Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps, you’ll find a woman advising her former lover’s new lover. You’ll find a knowing dissection of sex as enjoyed (and endured) by African women, you’ll read about a stepmother’s travails. Two poets take us on excursions around their physical and metaphysical milieu; a nonfiction writer gives a complex, ultra-intimate account of Igbo cosmology by way of a spirit wife.
We wondered: Is there a grand unifier to these stories and poems?
If there is, it is fealty: each writer’s fealty to words, to setting down a story, an idea, an experience that requires telling and, of course, reading.
We founded Efiko to tell Africa’s stories via the best of African writing. Our contributors to this edition responded accordingly. We thank them. And we hope you enjoy reading the finest writing from and about our continent.
