Issue 001 ‘Japa’ is a collection of “last straws and camel backs”. It is a collection of grief glossed over with the hope of something certain but unknown. It is a wish, a simple prayer for something imperfect but works. Ultimately it is a pause, a brief solemn exclamation before we return to wanderlust.
To japa is to be free, to seek greener pastures, to find your voice, to encounter the
sunrays of hope, to regain your future, to actualise dreams, to have the world as a
canvas, to become, to breathe again—or the opposite of all these.
1 Dr Nwako sat up, adjusting himself leisurely on his swivel armchair. Engrossed in a phone conversation, he quickly transferred the phone from
Book Title: Fate, In the Dungeon of Doom Authored by Peter Okonkwo Year of Publication: 2021 ISBN 979-8-7152-1327-3 Following on from his debut poetry collection, Ecstasy of
