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.
We Will Live Again explores three significant themes of narcissism, patriarchy and religious fanaticism through a remarkable character known as Reverend Thaddeus Iroha, who represents African literature, completion of the trio of Okonkwo and Brother Eugene
In the six months you had been with him, you had seen and spent more money than you had seen in your lifetime. He had gotten you a new and better apartment in Lekki. You were learning to drive with one of the cars he had lent you. You ate better and looked better. Life was good.
In answers, Ndubuisi is an irritating gadfly, buzzing with redolent questions that unsettle those that are standing on “The way answers come.” For Ndubuisi, answers come “in millipede’s streams/ dragging many legs
