By: Favour Bamijoko John Pepper Clark, in his poem, “Ibadan”, described the city as a “running splash of rust and gold-flung and scattered among seven hills like broken China in the sun”. But beyond and beneath the relentless plains of rusty, dusty, corrugated iron sheets and the seven hills of […]
By: Ibreed The people on my street always wonder how my father, who was once without a job for months, now has a fleet of cars and chains of business organizations to his name. A few months ago, he demolished the rough building we once lived in, and erected a […]
©Amazon “OG! It’s plenty! Hundred! Your face show, your shoe sef shine, Olohun, e full ground now.” With both hands lifted, Ade jokingly hails his friend in greeting. “Ade money, Adex funds, spending, lavishing! Show us the way now.” “You better use compass, or make you use Google maps.” “Ade […]
By: Amazon “Where your own belle?” “Belle as how?” “No be belle everybody dey take resume?” “This Betty sef, you’re not serious o. Where your own too, or you no dey among everybody?” “I no dey among, I don born my own. In fact, na twins.” “Na so!” Both girls […]
By: Amazon “Something really funny happened in class today. We were all waiting for the lecturer, only for him to call the course rep to tell her that he won’t show up because he was not able to get fuel for his car. I mean, can’t he take a cab […]
By: Amazon “I like the way I’m feeling now, Omo, e get small thing wey dey stress me, But, right now I’m chilling now, oh-oh-ohh…” “Ehn! In a male restroom? You like what?” Tonia can tell who the voice belongs to; she just turns around to confirm what she’s most […]
“Aren’t you coming along?” “To do what exactly, please?” “To get vaccinated, of course. Babe, quit acting like you don’t know that and get your lazy butt off that bed so we can get going already!” “Get going where o, Aunty June? Me? Vaccine? God forbid!” June almost can’t believe […]
Akinmoyeje Timileyin i Every night Mother tells the story of a girl on whose lap a continent is tattooed in blood (this girl is my mother). She teaches us to go to vigils To offer prayers to a god(silence) that smokes our voices and puffs them into the night (in […]
“No way! Like seriously, this is not happening again! This had better be a big joke or something. Do they even consider us at all while making decisions? I’m almost hundred percent sure that they don’t. Like! I can’t even believe they’ll do this to us again!!!” Steve threw his […]
“Our mouths are dry like the sand of the desert.” Tonia fakes a smile and replies, “Deiz no money on gwaund.” The next minute, she’s escaped to (or has been captured by) her thoughts. She wondered if her ruddy-cheeked roommate can really relate to the fact that there is really […]
