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Thursday’s Children: Book Review By Ifesinachi Johnpaul

In ‘Do Dead Men Come Back Home?’ Kanyinsola Olorunisola takes on the question of reincarnation. He sees himself as having existed in times past, as being co-habited by ancestors and kindred spirits who have found resurrection in his mind. Déjà vu? Perhaps! But here is an author who feels that his middle name, Babatunde (the dead man has come back home), is not just symbolic but literal

An Author in Search Of Six Characters

I know you would think I am stupid, a fool or whatever foul name your minds evaporates. But consider if Christmas hadn't fallen on a Tuesday?. Is not my fault if Sunday crept into Tuesday without its permission.

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POEM: YOU AND I By UGORJI EBUBE

April 13, 2019April 14, 2019 By Ngiga

They say love begins with a smile
With lips parting
Ours began after a smile and two bodies attacked each other
Flesh on thorns
Flesh torn by thorns

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POEM: HOW TO READ A TRIBUTE BY UGORJI EBUBE

April 5, 2019April 5, 2019 By Ngiga

you must have a dead person. It could be either a relative, a friend or a human you can muster up a tear or two for. Perhaps for his dead self, for the youth that never knew the virginity of old age. Or a handsome face undergoing a natural make up. Or for you or a part of you, that you’re sure no longer exist –like your heart.

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Poetry: from Hafiz on how to write poetry & Halvah By Tares Oburumu

March 23, 2019March 23, 2019 By Ngiga

You are honey
mixed with fluorescence
in a glass cup. Light & fire.

I drink fire & I fall into the regions
marked for heated psychasthenia, the poet of Kilifi

out of schizophrenia a heavenly place.