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TRIBUTE TO THE PAST

Day 2. Writing Prompt: A gift from the past. TRIBUTE TO THE PAST Why does everyone need to ask about your taste in music when...

B'kunmi in Short Stories
Oct 8 - 2 min read

MR NIGER D

Writing Prompt: Write your own myth to describe what happens to people when they die. MR NIGER D That was the mnemonic we were...

B'kunmi in Short Stories
Oct 3 - 5 min read

Thoroughfares

I’m dead on my feet. I am not sure what time it is, but it’s certainly Sun o’clock. I’ve always wondered if there’s really a...

Karolos in AfricaRising
May 19 - 2 min read

The Cruelty of Dream Fairies

I feel the sheets beneath my back as I open my eyes and…stars. Literally. My wallpaper of a starry night. Or ceiling paper? Roof…sheets? Ah...

Karolos in AfricaRising
May 18 - 2 min read

Have you ever been chased by a Rhinoceros?

I was lying down in my room “jejely” minding my business, listening to another masterpiece by Sia while scrolling through my Twitter feed in search...

Aremu John in AfricaRising
May 18 - 4 min read

N.O.A.H: Not Of Any Hope

The sky darkened with a nefarious resolve, as she howled violently like a wounded vixen hell-bent on vengeance. It seemed a storm drew near, but...

Aremu John in AfricaRising
May 17 - 1 min read

Why are you running?

“Why are you running?” To answer this question, let’s go back a little before an hour ago. There I was, drenched in sweat and plastered...

Aremu John in AfricaRising
May 13 - 2 min read

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“I can paint houses, cars, pots and pans, clothes, floors, furniture, even people. Just name it, I can paint it”, she said proudly in...

Khadijah Kolapo in Short Stories
Jan 12 - 2 min read

Anna Beatings’ Second Death

Anna couldn’t wait for the plane to hit the tarmac. She hated flying. The plane was finally landing and she was only grateful that throughout...

Enun Mpama in Short Stories
Jan 4 - 5 min read

Where The Answers Lie

The world seemed to move at such a hurried pace. Both young and old walked by busily, taking long strides. Angry drivers honked their horns...

Enun Mpama in Short Stories
Dec 18 - 3 min read

NIGHTS LIKE THIS

It was one night, as always, nights when I surf the internet looking for opportunities locked in somewhere. I wouldn’t say I knew what I...

Ikeoluwa Amonimo in Short Stories
Dec 7 - 1 min read

Minutes of Memories

Minutes of Memories The first thing you know is that you don’t know how to run until you know how to run. ***“Do you plead...

Gospel Okoro in Tell! Awards
Nov 29 - 2 min read

The pain I crave

The hospital shouldn’t have felt as grim and soulless as it did, but it felt that way to me. The warm smiles and comforting faces...

Enun Mpama in Short Stories
Aug 10 - 4 min read

Gathering Up The Pieces

Riding down the slopy road at Missory Avenue, enjoying the rhythm of the wind, the chirping of the early morning birds, this was Kamsi’s favourite...

Enun Mpama in Short Stories
Jul 31 - 2 min read

The Blue-eyed god

They said when he was born, his cries echoed through the small village of Ideka. It was shrill, piercing. They had never heard anything like...

Enun Mpama in Short Stories
Jun 26 - 4 min read

Today’s Tears Are Not The Same

Again, he sits on that solid mahogany chair, staring leeringly at me. The dreaded evenings always take a routine. First, he peers through the sitting...

Enun Mpama in Short Stories
Jun 21 - 3 min read

ASSISTANT HOLY SPIRIT

Koto aye was the first horror movie I ever watched. I can’t remember the details of the movie, but I remember how the movie made...

Modupe Ojo in Short Stories
Jun 8 - 4 min read

A TALE WITH NO TAIL.

Now I stager and fail I try even harder but I faint Friends look at me and hate I try to explain, but words drained....

Tolulope Quadri in Poetry
Mar 25 - 1 min read

BEFORE DAWN

I’m staring at my reflection in the mirror and can only imagine the amount of girls, women who are like me; struggling and trying to...

Ernestine Okafor in Short Stories
Mar 25 - 9 min read

I F E

I met Ifeanyi in 2016 at the Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan. It was one of those days when I went to the library...

Modupe Ojo in Short Stories
Mar 13 - 3 min read

WA-HER-LA!

A SHORT FICTION Richard sat on the white, high-backed, plastic chair on the veranda, stretching his injured foot forward and making it parallel with the...

Temiloluwa Omoyele in Short Stories
Mar 9 - 3 min read

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WOMEN OF FIRE

1 “Selére, hurry up with that basket you’re weaving. I want you to go and buy me a new calabash.” Her mother called out. “Yes,...

Sophia Adepoju in Short Stories
Mar 6 - 30 min read

A Ball Bigger Than I Can Catch

“I never thought I would understand the meaning of “feel like entering the ground” nor do I feel like I need to know that it...

Noah Aderoju in Short Stories
Mar 2 - 2 min read

Love Is Many Things

Love isn’t just what people like to think it to be. Most say true love is only what a mother feels for the child that...

Ubong Johnson in Short Stories
Jan 4 - 6 min read

SĘGILOLA

Oníkálukú jèjé ewúré Ewúré, ewúré Oníkálukú jèjé àgùtàn, Agùtàn bòlòjò Olúrónbí jèjé omo re Omo re...

Amudipe Opeyemi in Short Stories
Dec 19 - 9 min read

The Torch

She ran through the bush, fighting with the thorns and sticks that blocked her way. Her whole body was on alert, her eyes had...

Precious Ndumanya in Short Stories
Nov 4 - 5 min read

He Loves his Cousin

HE LOVES HIS COUSIN. The first time he told you he cheated, it felt like a slap. It hurt to look at his face...

Sandra Arukwe in Short Stories
Nov 2 - 1 min read

Blast From The Past.

She called me on phone.A voice from my past.“Daniel i need your help”“How now… been a long time, how may i be of service?” I...

Daniel Ibanga in Article
Sep 11 - 2 min read

The Dream

‘…..as I invite on stage, the Author of the award winning Novel, in person of ….’ his voice trailed off amidst the loud hooooos.I approached...

Asiat Jimoh in Article
Aug 4 - 1 min read

Yawnsss

I roll to and fro the wall. It’s the 21st day of lockdown but my body can’t just get used to the wake-eat-sleep routine. I...

Asiat Jimoh in Article
Aug 4 - 1 min read

ỌGBÀNJẸ

How many times have I told you not to come with this mark? Soon they are going to notice it and have you burned and...

Precious Ndumanya in Short Stories
Jul 24 - 1 min read

Dear Obinna

Dear Obinna When I got your note about your wife expecting,I cried – you know how I get very emotional sometimes. What joy I felt,what...

Inioluwa Tunmise in Love, Sex & Relationships, Short Stories
Jul 1 - 4 min read

Delirium

Five years old, that was the age Akum was when we lost our dad and when I was born. Mom never failed to mention to...

Udo Ojogbo in Article
Jun 25 - 2 min read

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carry yourself to the oceanthe ground has become too harddrown your yesterdays,baptize their sins– Ijeoma Umebinyuo This morning Ugo fucked me on the kitchen counter...

Udo Ojogbo in Short Stories
Jun 11 - 11 min read

FORTITUDE

FORTITUDEYou sat on a fading lilac-colored cushion chair, opposite of you is an age-old Sharp Television placed on the tattered carpet, you couldn’t even remember...

Adeyi Olamide in Love, Sex & Relationships, Short Stories
May 5 - 1 min read

As She Grows Older

This is a tale of thoughts, of time passed and a time to come, as a child, Mira never felt like she belonged in her...

Princess Tamara in Chronicles Of Consciousness, Memoir Series
Oct 31 - 1 min read

As She Grows Older

This is a tale of thoughts, of time passed and a time to come, as a child, Mira never felt like she belonged in her...

Princess Tamara in Chronicles Of Consciousness, Memoir Series
Oct 31 - 1 min read

This particular day

THIS PARTICULAR DAY I wished I could silence this Alarm forever as it disturbed my smooth sleep for the umpteenth time today, this particular day...

Babalola Mayowa in Lifestyle, Short Stories, Tell! Academy
Sep 1 - 2 min read

The Unnumbered Casualties

Saminu wore a very calm, but suspecting demeanor. He squeezed himself between the table and chair to sit. I stood hurriedly and bent to drag...

Samson Adesina Ajala in Tell! Academy
Aug 13 - 2 min read

Games on the streets

That evening at my street was particularly serene. It wasn’t the usual bustles and blaring horns of okadas, it was the young pigs that...

Zubby in Tell! Academy
Aug 13 - 3 min read

Stay With Me: A tale of love, loss and things between

Ayomide Adebayo’s debut novel, Stay With Me, tells the story of a couple, Yejide and Akin, who met and fell in love in the university...

Modupe Abidakun in Reviews
Dec 15 - 2 min read

BOOK REVIEW: THE MURDER ROOM BY P.D. JAMES

Set on Friday 25 October, Adam Dalgliesh visited the Dupayne Museum, a private museum of the inter-war years owned by Neville Dupayne and dedicated to...