Professor Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo opens up to Jeff Unaegbu about her latest book – Roses and Bullets. ABOUT HER: Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a professor and former head of the English Department, University of Lagos, Nigeria. She [...]
Jun 222011
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Jun 022011
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May 162011
Not so long ago, on a scorching day, a woman was sleeping in her stall where she sold lisle and gloves and stockings. No customer had called yet, and it was midday already. “Bad market”, [...]
Feb 072011
Dear editor, kindly correct that article with the false headline, ‘Mad Man Rapes Senator’s Wife in Public’. I have interviewed the suspect and here is the truth: Until a week ago, Ikenna thought his lot [...]
Feb 062011
Here lie a mass of men- Casualties of realities, Celebrities of phantasmagoria, Bodies without persons. The sea of melancholia Had been navigated time and again By their pessimistic confusion In their quest for coherence. Ahoy! [...]
Feb 032011
Girls in skirts that open the way, Walk past us in a wily way, Try all we can to look away, What goes around, Sure comes around…
Feb 012011
When you move your electric legs,
Men do mope at your terrific steps,
Making me give magnetic pecks,
Which then create frenetic yells.
When our eyes do linger in locks,
Your sweet smiles do glitter with love,
From that heart which shimmer with hope,
And my heart just shivers with throbs.
Jan 312011
Deep down my heart Stands a dagger, Bright in the dark, Dripping danger…. From the huge glinting dagger, Blood droplets drop apart,
Jan 182011
A gust of cold wind lapped onto his face. He inserted his determined hands into his jean trouser pockets. Then, he gazed at the panoply of panoramic lights crossing themselves out into a huge ambience [...]
Jan 162011
The honks from the taxi rose in a crescendo, causing a welter of pedestrians to move out of the way. Yes, they rose. And his heart was palpitating for his sister. His anxious eyes ran [...]
Jan 032011
Suddenly a black goat darted into the road. Whether it was too bamboozled by what seemed to it an approaching behemoth or that it was playing out a black script given it by some malevolent [...]
Dec 302010
Soon, the driver jumped onto his partitioned seat. I noticed he was not the pot-bellied man. He was a tall muscular giant with very large arms. He turned the ignition on. The engines gave a [...]
Dec 282010
Onitsha town flew past. It was noisy with the yawns of multi-directional motions. From where I was crammed at the back of a heady minibus, I continued to watch as its spinning form sped by [...]
Dec 212010
People from different places,
Hustle for scanty spaces,
Spread out are Osha mazes
Below the Niger bridge!
The sense of smell is heightened
In winds that never frighten
Those souls in rags that sadden
This very soul of mine.
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Dec 142010
What would you do when you cannot get a disturbance out of your mind? Dear friend, excuse me please. Assume that you are a lonely bachelor who lectures in a crazy university. And believe also [...]