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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

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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

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The plan with Kayode was that the babies wouldn’t come till the third year of marriage. Part of the plan was also to have loads...
Modupe Ojo

in Short Stories
Mar 25  -  3 min read

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

    “Mushin Olosha! Mushin, mushin wole!!” hollered the conductor who draped on the yellow bus horizontally stripped with black. I had boarded the bus...
Henry Okeke

in Short Stories
Dec 4  -  2 min read

News of tears… Sidi treks hastily on the narrow pathway that lies on the road virtually towards the stream and the stall for making cassava...
Faruq Shitta

in Article
Aug 6  -  6 min read

The only person in the world that could bring down Annie from the edge of that rooftop was lying in a mortuary cooler just a...
David Samuel

in Article
Jul 3  -  6 min read

Grandmother Bama looked from one to the other, and could not, for the sake of sanity decide which one was more foolish. There, they sat,...
Emmanuella James

in Short Stories
Dec 23  -  2 min read

  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 Irene©

in Tell! Academy
Aug 13  -  3 min read

She liked to look at the walls. She liked to look at the whiteness of the walls as he moved above her. She regurgitated the...
Michael Emmanuel

in Short Stories
Aug 13  -  14 min read