ISSUE 08: DEPARTURE

INTRODUCTORY NOTE ‘Departure’ is an all-encompassing experience— leaving, going away, deviation, death, exit, quitting, unconventional, retreat,…

ART HAS TURNED ME INTO AN EXTENDED FIELD OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE | JELILI ATIKU

JELILI ATIKU is a Nigerian multimedia artist with political concerns for human rights and justice. Through…

SUCCESS IN WRITING IS NOT AN EXACT SCIENCE. IT IS A PRODUCT OF CRAFT AND CHANCE” | A CONVERSATION WITH ABUBAKAR ADAM IBRAHIM

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a Nigerian creative writer and journalist. His short-story collection “The Whispering Trees”…

I AM NEVER A METHOD WRITER | A CONVERSATION WITH BASH AMUNENI

Bash Amuneni is one of Nigeria’s foremost performance poets. His poetry is laced in love, memory…

EVERY TIME I SIT TO WRITE, I THINK ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD | CONVERSATION WITH GLORIA MWANIGA ODARY

GLORIA MWANIGA ODARY is a writer based in Nairobi whose work has appeared in The White…

THREE POEMS | MELISSA D. BURRAGE

My Bellini Dream You came to me once in a dream sat at the foot of…

ARTWORKS | SAMARRA PRAHLAD

SAMARRA PRAHLAD is a young emerging artist of Indian descent, from Australia, who has been painting…

PHOTOGRAPHY | MOUNA OUAFIQ

MOUNA OUAFIQ is a Moroccan poet, short story writer, colomnist and photographer from Rabat. She has…

I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN |PATRICIA CARRAGON

(inspired by Frank Sinatra) Her mother’s Art Deco mirror, once her best friend, now her worst…

FOR TODAY AND THOSE DAYS YOU WERE NOT HERE | NWABUISI KENNETH

I Now, as I write this, I can feel your ghostly stares hovering around me. I…