1. WITH AKACHI I have known Akachi for years, as a poet acquaintance from The Writers’ Community, UNN, but until this year, we hadn’t
A boy’s ears should be busy during Easter. Check out my previous lists—for 2017, for 2018, and a playlist & thoughts. “Ratchet (Happy Birthday),” Drake
I like the word “feast.” The sound of it, the upper teeth touching the lower lip. I like when it is used in titles
1. This is only half of the story. 2. My third idea for a novel came in June 2013, one evening as I was
I wrote this as a comment on a Facebook post that, in discussing a tweet comparing Meryl Streep, Angela Basset, and Viola Davis, suggests that
Discussing Game of Thrones is one of the few times random people are allowed to publicly wish death on other people and to invent
In December, I was at The Writers’ Community (TWC) in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka for a prose workshop. It was where we started:
Sunday nightfall, I’m bored—actually I feel like munching succulent bread and Vita Milk—so Friend and I go to Spar. We are surprised to see
Literature I have been touring the 2018 archives of African literary magazines for a Brittle Paper project. I resumed reading Miles Morland’s memoir Cobra
One evening ten years ago, when I was still a die-hard football follower, I decided I wanted my own team: it would comprise players I
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