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A Chat With Jude Dibia - BLACKBIRD

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Jude Dibia, author of new novel Blackbird. His previous books are Walking with Shadows (2005) and Unbridled (2007). Unbridled won the Ken Saro-Wiwa award for prose in 2007 and was a finalist in the 2008 NLNG [...]

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BURN THE MALLAM

Time flew swiftly whenever Mallam Kabiru was in class. The man was born to teach Maths. He simplified complex concepts with admirable ease and competence. For almost two hours, we sat in our straight-backed, uncomfortable chairs and listened to him like there was no [...]

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I AM DAVID

TITLE: I AM DAVID

David

That is my name. I take pride in knowing that my namesake was a great king and I never let anyone forget that. Sometimes I could even make some people believe that I am his reincarnate by pretending to [...]

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THE END OF LOVE - 1: BREAK UP

My ex was my first real boyfriend. I met him when I was twenty-one and in my third level in university. I was doing my internship with a bottling company and he was an Engineer who had just joined them after his national [...]

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Home

Joyful Hearts
Twinkling Eyes
Bending Knees
Gyrating Hips
Tapping Feet
Bobbing Heads
Singing Tongues
Flexing Backs

Continue reading Living Praise

Who Killed Mrs Johnson? - 2

Detective sergeant Bassey Akpan, a short and stout man of fifty-two years, had worked in the Nigerian police force for close to twenty-seven years and had seen it all. He sat in his office reading an old newspaper to keep him occupied. The police [...]

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THE TAPE -- 2

-Scene Two-

(MOJI is dressed in a gown meant for a bridesmaid.  She is situated in a room at the backyard of a cathedral.  She sits on the settee beside a bride’s gown.  She is busy arranging the flowers for the flower girls.  MRS. [...]

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Late Night Trilogy (Part 1)

Since CJ came into the club that night, he hadn’t looked at anything else but her. It could have been easier for him to lift a tonne loaded truck than to take his eyes of her. God! was she perfection or what? He couldn’t [...]

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WRITING ART

This is mindfully from my heart Lettered in my leads path [...]

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A DREAM

Last night I had a dream

Racism was a thang of the post

Everyone were equals

That caste system was forgotten

N’ you could marry n’ mingle

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BEST I EVER HAD

1

Friend you know what?

These words are of great worth

Cos I’ve tried to write for years

But all I do was shed tears

Continue reading BEST I EVER HAD

The Golden Baobab Prize - Entries

The Golden Baobab Prize is “An African literary award established to inspire the creation of the best kinds of African stories that children and young adults all over the world will love.” They are currently inviting entries of unpublished short stories written [...]

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CALL FOR SUBMISSION: Antoloji of Naija Puems

Arojah Concepts, an Abuja based edutainment outfit in collaboration with SOMETIN FO EVRIBODI has concluded plans to publish an Antoloji of Naija Puems (Poems in Nigerian Pidgin) and thereby wishes to invite interested Nigerians to send in their entries.

The anthology which will be [...]

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Away from you

I wrote this after reading the April theme for Quarrtsiluni: Imprisonment. Please let me know what you think and if does feel like somebody who is in prison. Thanks.

 

Away from you

Inside these concrete walls with no mercy

I sit and cry, [...]

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The abused woman cries.

Lurking behind the shadow of gaiety,
is a fear that hides behind the beauty.
It’s a struggle; it’s survival of the fittest,
a war between her calm outside and an inside that’s not at rest.
Calm cool terrain it seems [...]

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