14 February 2025
LEE MK II, aka Gatluak Ezekiel, is a South Sudanese nationalist poet and lit romanticist. His poem, "Story Me" explores love, legacy, and the enduring effect of storytelling.
11 February 2025
Isaac Aju writes from Nigeria and is now published in UK and US journals. His poems are about storytelling and the artist's response to pain.
18 November 2024
This poem sings of mother’s craftFor at mother’s feet, this painter becomes a druidLost in the runes of lines and verses/Without the craft of magicFor home […]
22 October 2024
Wings of Eagle by Andrea Ernest Myinga explores the theme of trust, highlighting its rarity among people.
6 September 2024
The poem is about a gallant wordsmith who grew weary of his wordcraft because he feels he wasn't making impact nor getting his desired result from writing. Dusk narrates this feeling of himself, of which he eventually gave us a happy ending of it.
29 August 2024
These poems revolve around loss. And the terrors bedeviling regions in the northern parts of Nigeria.
27 June 2024
The poem, by Yahuza Usman, is about a poet defining absence as the presence of anything useless.
20 January 2021
A poem by Oseghale Favour Listen to the calligraphy of my fading pen, the dying ink, and the papyrus As I sail the calm seas to […]
20 January 2021
A poemby Chinaza Silver Eze Don’t leave me The pain is revealed I’ve seen the world and all And I want to leave it here Bit […]
20 January 2021
A poem by Eze Chibuike Victory With dusty and stinky toes Walking down the pathway Olde grey shoulder-length hair And fading dilated pupils straight on Disgusting […]
20 January 2021
A poem by Ephraim Nonso Fellow Nigerians, I have come to understand That our landscape harbors more stories Than the number of people that make our […]