Stories take us on boundless journeys into complex lives, into the depths of human emotions, on thrilling adventures, across exciting new terrains. “If you want to know a country read its writers"
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Wherever fickle wind dance, Light and cool on skin, Wherever coquettish stars...
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Mohammed went to bed before the fowls. No person cried, not even his immediate family...
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My name is Ahamefuna, "my name will not be lost," & I have Chelu and Elozona, two friends...
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Osiki, god of pestle and mortar, do you not hear hungrier children, At the crest of the lake, in...
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The kids in school don't play with me. Yesterday, the teacher...
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The first time I had sex wasn't like anything I had imagined and read. In fact, I felt betrayed...
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Death is an arbitrary constant, lurching around, causing a...
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Every morning, some villages wake up to the sound of the coc kcrowing; others...
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The girls milled around in various stages of undress. Ajoke was not surprised. Hostels...
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"My friend Femi Oliwo was a great man…." I started to doze off. I had a long night the...
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“Cattles and egrets. Commensalism. Interactions" He thought carefully...
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Sunshine — it was the name he always called her, even on the day he sent her to her grave...
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Okunmiri gazed out the window; he didn't have another second to spare. Time was running...
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Sharp as that tear of charged light across the night sky, I awake. The purring of my four...
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Akhator couldn't feel a thing. He was numb. After two failed marriages and fifteen...
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We are told to count our blessings, to focus on the beautiful things in life and to make peace with our past, but each...
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