The Lone Carpenter by Wilfred Deigh
Today, I drove past the Hills along the high way, the sleepy skies yawned in my rear-view as the morning sluggishly woke from slumber. I beheld the lone carpenter in his workshop making the 100th coffin with passion reeling in [...]
Don’t Stay Silent! Nigerian Lives Matter
This week I survived a scare. What I found to be of particular interest in the course of it was that I did something I had never done before. For the first time ever, I put up a post on [...]
Michael Afenfia: Don’t Cry For me Argentina, Egypt & Nigeria…
In spite of what the rest of the world might be thinking about the Russians right now, the 2018 FIFA World Cup Tournament got off to a scintillating start in Moscow on Thursday 14th June 2018. Considering that it was a four-year long [...]
L o v e ‘s F u n e r a l by Wilfred Deigh
I saw in a dream, a funeral; broken hearts' heads bowed, stood in some dew drenched grassy field and watched love in its grandeur red lowered into a shallow grave in a moody melodrama. Love had a most familiar face [...]
My Name is Sorrow by Hassana U Maina
It was in the dusk of harmattan when the dogonyaro tree swayed to the left and to the right producing an almost frigid temperature. The earth rose with vengeance, turning the hair and faces of pedestrians sand-like. The woman selling [...]
And the Oscar goes to…Dino Melaye! By Michael Afenfia
If you are a Nigerian actor above 40, you should be very afraid right now. I’m talking Ramsey Noah, Segun Arinze, Fred Amata, Femi Branch, Jim Iyke, or even Richard Mofe-Damijo. Your position as leading men in Nollywood is seriously [...]