Get rejected by publishers and magazines, feel the rejections and bounce back.Get abused but never relent on it. Let them squeeze your manuscripts for once and throw it in a waste can, yes, for once; It would make […]

Forgive father… Forgive
My flaws got me this time
Had I be as hallowed as Joseph
I would have run
Run faster than the hands of time
Swifter than my shadow could catch.

All I should have done went into […]

Our ancestral home would not forget your perfection. On this ground shall we plant your names also for those who are to come. We will gather firewood, we will gather soothsayers, we will gather seekers of fate to […]

(Continuation)

“Yes.” Chibuike continued. “He died because there was no money to pay for what Mazi Ogbulafor said our mother should buy. Father, when asked to bring money, recited his usual slogan, no money. […]

This dream fell out from my eyes last night when I tried to find a related body to passionately tell all that I have being through but could not. This dream was the light of my skin but fairer was the colour of […]

JOURNEY TO ITALY – UNTOLD STORIES OF A RETURNEE (fifth episode)

The inhabitants of Durku behaved indifferent towards us. Everybody we reached out to simply drove us away. We kept gallivanting round the v […]

SOUNDS OF SILENCE
NOT RAPE

So she turned your request down
And your talk was “You shall see”
thus a plot was laid, by you and your accomplice to do the devil’s bid, rape the innocent lady who is supposedly […]

When you see a poet
You see life at its best
He understands nature better than the first man
He sees the soul of all living, and inanimate
His language is love and his voice is the ink
His friends are his […]

A few hours to her wedding, Boma gets arrested along with her crazy best friend Jojo. But then Jojo’s mum comes to the rescue, the problem is she also is crazy.

Wanna know how the night will end for Boma on her […]

Boys! When the night fell on the shadows of our grandfathers, they walked towards some miles away from the memory of darkness to find light. People labelled them evil and diabolic. Some stoned them while others […]

Nigerian youths are not ready to run for national development but ready to enrich their pockets – Wole Adedoyin
Wole Adedoyin, founder of the National Interparty Youth Forum and the coordinator of Youth A […]