A Prize Winning Entry By Miracle Adebayo Eavesdropping has always come easily to me. I’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember. Well, it’s saved me a couple of times and of course, also put me in a bit of trouble. But, what can I say? I’d much rather eavesdrop than […]
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Like Little Ones Do
July 10, 2014 
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A Prize Winning Entry By Sharon Tshipa “K.I.N.G. spell KING stop!” children’s voices swelled a stone throw from Kineo’s balcony. Her double storey balcony overlooked her neighbour’s house. She rushed to the edge. Five kids were playing in the modest backyard. Unaware that they were being watched, the kids chased each other. They screamed, […]
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July 8, 2014 3 Comments
A Prize Winning Entry By Hajara Hussaini Ashara Daddy never taught me the definition of War though it was what kept him away from me for as long as he lived. However, he told me severally, for the very few times I saw him, that peace is the absence of life. I hardly heard […]
Continue reading Reflections from the womb
August 1, 2013 0 Comments
By Dejavu Tafari I remember- somewhere in the deepest recesses of my mind- the place of my abode before I announced my untimely arrival on the physical realm. My descend from Goodness was a time marked by equal measures of excitement and a tentative uncertainty, similar to that of a traveler journeying to unknown […]
Continue reading The Autocratic, Insensitivity and Inhumanity of Humans
July 12, 2013 0 Comments
By Chukwuebuka Chibuzor Nwoye Humans were created for mutual cohabitation in this earth. It is so saddening that the reverse has been the case in most cases and areas of life in the human existence. The problem of autocratic, insensitivity and inhuman treatment of man to their fellow humans did not start today. It had […]
Continue reading Sound of Death
July 5, 2013 2 Comments
By Sharon Tshipa They stood by the fence. The fence made of an assortment of dry thorn tree branches and the lush Motsetsi shrub. They were children. They stood a metre away. They were adults. They towered a few inches above me. They were all elders. Helpless they stood, watched, while she drifted into the […]
Continue reading Best Fiction for May Edition:::State of Disharmony
June 16, 2013 1 Comment
By Ogundare Tope The university was closing down indefinitely, and students scampered in all directions trying to get to the hostels and pack their luggages. They had been given four hours to evacuate the hostels before the mobile police were sent in to force them out, and no one wanted to brave the wrath […]
Continue reading The day we ate beans
April 24, 2013 1 Comment
by Uchechukwu Obiakor We were at the sitting room when papa arrived with a leather bag that evening. I was first to rush at him to hug him and help him carry his bag. He had promised to buy some snacks on his way home after work, so I had to get hold of the […]
Continue reading Akara Elepo
March 24, 2013 5 Comments
by Oluwaseyi Oluyole I am twelve years old; I don’t know what I am. All I know is my appetite for blood is insatiable and my love for evil seems eternal. Whenever mum cooks her delicious meals it no longer appeals to me because it is not as sweet and intoxicating as the blood I […]
Continue reading Opportunity
March 20, 2013 5 Comments
by Aduaka Kingsley Olisaemeka A popular saying goes, ‘opportunity knocks but once’. Everyone must have come across that line before… Another not so common quip goes, ‘People miss opportunity because when he knocks, he’s dressed in overalls and disguised as work’. Wow. So let’s say this fellow called opportunity was like any other man of flesh […]
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