The Journeyman
By Khanya Mtshali | Peotry
He brought an honesty to work deemed unskilled and menial. A self-respect that towered over the egos of overlords occupying fancy positions, in a hierarchy of thanklessness. He had to work.
Joy is Coming
By Jimoh Abdullah | Poetry
& though I have lived so long in darkness, tonight I climb out of the cave to look up at the moonlit sky who sees me first and smiles. God knows, happiness and the sky long to see me…
My Father Renamed Himself
By Nurain Ọládèjì | Poetry
A child’s need to be chased, to hide and be found time and again, is why my father is the ghost stalking my dreams. When I was a child, hunting for where to hide and wait for my friends…
Portraiture of Belief Eating at the Flesh of a Man’s Reasoning
Musa Abduljalal Aliyu | Peotry
My brother, held tight to his belief like a limpet holding onto algae, chewing it off a hard rock. So when he joined Boko Haram, we…
My Therapist Kept Smiling At My Tricks
By Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto | Poetry
I have picked ripe and rotten mangoes by the flag and made them into a mosaic:
let everyone know about the…
To A Poetry Editor About Weightless Gravity
By Shitta Faruq | Poetry
In this poem, i remain a dog, barking at the unseen in the middle of the night,
Measuring its agitations by a quadratic formula,…
Collocation, Saudade
By Othuke Umukoro | Poetry
In the grand canyon of things, have I been calling to dry sprigs, descending into sediment like infauna? Late at night making love,…
My Loneliness Is Killing Me
By Warsan Shire | Poetry
He smokes until he sees something moving in the smoke, remembers Joy like blindness: swimming at Jazeera Beach, gorging on…
War
By Samuel A. Adeyemi | Poetry
When they walked into the cathedral, God watched them walk. When the bullets prepared to leave the gun, they left the…
Little Inhabitants
By Ernest Ogunyemi | Poetry
The poet wakes in the middle of the night to find that his room, Barely enough for his lean body, is a megacity for the little…