Michael Afenfia: #TheyBroughtBackOurGirls
This was the outcome we wanted, that the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, or even the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria would appear on national TV himself with the exciting news to Nigerians, that within a few days [...]
The Wedding in Magono by Michael Afenfia (Nigeria) & Jack Agaba (Uganda)
“Another swallow for me, Anna-Marie. I need to drink a lot of cow-dung off my mind and out of my miserable life,” I mumbled to the bartender as I tossed a cold coin across the stone counter, looking around for [...]
11 o’Clock by Oladele Taiwo Oluwaseyi & Michael Afenfia
His name, Oladele Taiwo Oluwaseyi. He won the poetry leg of the Write for Love contest I organised for Valentine 2018. After the Write for Love competition, Taiwo and I got talking one evening – and we got [...]
Dapchi: The Abduction We Saw Coming
When former President, Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo said at a church service he attended in Otuoke, hometown of another former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, as the two fellowshipped together in the latter’s home church on Sunday 18th February 2018, that the reason [...]
18 Questions: Join me this March
This March, I would like 18 writers in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja to join me over lunch/dinner for a conversation about writing and the state of the nation. Lagos – Saturday 3rd March, 2018 Port Harcourt – Saturday 10th March, 2018 Abuja – Saturday 17th [...]
Thieving Snakes and Magic Maggi Cubes by Michael Afenfia
If, like me, you grew up watching Tales by Moonlight – that NTA children’s programme very popular in the 80s and 90s, then you would be familiar with the myth of talking animals and spirit beings that shuttle between the land [...]