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-Dayọ̀ AyĂlárá Image Credit: Alvaro Serrano Bà ámi, I have walked the dusty roads where your feet once etched silence into the earth. I have tasted the harmattan and felt its wisdom blade my skin like the truths you carved into my ears with your eyes— the only tool you ever needed to teach me reverence. They say time forgets, but I have not forgotten how you … Continue reading Letter to Bà ámi
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-Nket Godwin Image Credit: Emily Liang Once upon a life, at night or in the day, A frog may hop across the path in your choices. A bird may fall from the sky of your dreams. Isn’t it funny how we still weep, Knowing whatever flies could fall? Sojourner, put your sorrows down, Rest a while, drink a cup of laughter. The road of life … Continue reading A Cup of Laughter
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-Nket Godwin Image Credit: Kelvin Wang Your face has not touched my eyes, nor have my hands rubbed against yours. Yet you’ve torched my dreams in many places. Your poems, before the road of my becoming, are fireflies guiding my art against wayside stones. I have not seen your mouth, nor sat where you ate, Yet you’ve fed me full with crumbs of ancient root. I, … Continue reading Ogbowei
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-Awodiya Funke Image Credit: Nicholas Beel I will tell your story Of farmlands and flourishing grassland I will tell the world about your flowing streams, Singing birds, on breadfruits trees A communal place for man and nature A hill of friendship you truly are Your heritage, my treasure On your river bank I found my peace Looking up at the blue sky to read the minds of my forebears Who saw tomorrow before it arrived And greened sacred heights with … Continue reading Hill of FriendshipÂ
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-Akinola Sesan Image Credit: Luke Stackpoole The beginning is not the end … Continue reading The Beginning of A Biographical Note of Oluronbi
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