On an evening swallowed by dusk,I tread a narrow path to the streamwhere many feet had trod.New steps erase the prints of those before,etching signs that whisper,Souls have treaded this route.The dusty leaves wave at me,as they are tossed by thegentle evening breeze.Getting to the lip of the river,I marvel at how it has swelled, likethe milky breast of a nursing mother;it swelled like a … Continue reading Bare Feet
-Blessing Adedokun-Awojodu Society has a way of badgering parents into second-guessing themselves. But let’s be real, God isn’t running a sloppy assembly line. When He hands you a child, He doesn’t forget to throw in the parental instincts, even if they sometimes feel like a defective user manual. There’s this relentless push to make children “independent” before they’re even ready, packaged under noble labels … Continue reading The Science of Sleep Deprivation: A Mother’s Tale
Less visibly tragic than expected, less cinematic in its appeal: No resurgent dinosaur rampaging through the street, trampling parked cars & injuring billboards The sky is still its sure azure, the mountains still maintain their mammoth masses. Yet skeptics are now more than certain of the world’s ending. Evolutionists say bipedalism marked man’s ascendance to the zenith of Animalia. Soon as we woke to … Continue reading Between Man and Machine
in her mother’s womb she swam around as she willedall was good all was fresh all was refinedher splendour bubbled in joy effervescenther destiny emeraldshe circled around planets offering her praisesborn into the world she cried for innocence pristineshe could not breathe didn’t know what air was the human palaver, wuru wuru, kata katacoarse and charming, deceits and delightscontradictions and confounding incongruitiesconversations and confluences convergenteach … Continue reading Beginning
-Valentine Owhorodu Obari Gomba is a poet, playwright, and academic at the University of Port Harcourt. His play, Grit, won the prestigious Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2023. The play has an episodic plot, as it begins at the end when Pa Nyimenu’s family is enmeshed in violence among rioters, party thugs, and policemen. With the use of flashbacks, we get connected with the origin and progression of the … Continue reading Questioning Motive in Political Participation: A Review of Obari Gomba’s Grit
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