Nigeria
Love is the Colour Red?
Emmanuel Okafor February 14 Dear Esther, Today may be my last. The doctors are not telling me this, but I ...
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Chicken
Emmanuel Okafor The plump clay-coloured weathered-face woman sitting beside you presses your lean body against the side of the bus; but ...
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Rukiyat
Ebele Nweje Rukiyat had been crying since last night. The December harmattan was blowing through the trees as she hastened with ...
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Stealing from the Honeypot
Ebele Nweje “Emma Nnaemeka! Anybody for Emma Nnaemeka?” shouted the bus conductor from where he stood at the door. “Yes, e ...
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The Broken Pieces
Emmanuel Okafor ‘There are only two ways a man can meet death,’ my father once said, ‘either by the derogatory words ...
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When he Died
Ebele Nweje Early before nine o’clock in the morning, the February sun was already up and hot as the small group ...
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Am I Safe?
Alba Kunadu “Everyone who goes to that place hates it!” “They are all thieves!” “You’ll hate the place!” “They are fast-o, ...
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Coming Home
Emmanuel Okafor Ifeanyi prayed silently for the professor to end his lecture as he had been teaching for over two hours. ...
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A Broken Dream
Hope Nwosu It was an unusually sunny day in early spring. I had just succeeded in putting the children to bed ...
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Nyama: Chronicles of a Lost Mind
Olohi Ilevbare They came to me again tonight in my sleep, Crawling all over my body, spindly legs and skeletal frames, ...
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