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-Nimi Wariboko Image Credit: Filipe Almeida On April 19, 2025, a cousin in the United States asked me for the Kalabari word for romantic lover. She believed there was no equivalent in the language. Below are the words I shared with her. Olosikiya: A Kalabari word for darling, lover, or beloved. Literally, it means the person who does not reject love or romantic relationship. The … Continue reading Olobo (Lover)
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Adeniran Abdbasit Adeyemi Image Credit: Klemen Vrankar In my mind,a candle burns, its flame your name, its light an altar of love. Smoke rises from my heart, a whisper of fire that time cannot quench. For they say no one can touch the ocean’s end— so shall your love’s melody echo from the north to the south, an endless tide washing over me. Come closer— … Continue reading ĂŚrĂ wọ̀
I understand love. I know it like I know my mother’s face. I know how love is exposed when trying to hide behind dark curtains. I could close my eyes to spot out love, even in darkness. Love doesn’t make itself so difficult to be seen. I know how love absorbs intimacy like cloths Do water. You wouldn’t wring it out, unless you were willing to face the dryness of a lifetime. Before love, I know how the longing & the absence feel like a thirst. You want to carry the jug & gulp to thirst no more, even though a little sip intoxicates. And then, after love finally comes upon you, your heart, closed like a tomb, opens to be filled. Opeyemi Oluwayomi is a Nigerian writer, an English & Literary student of University of Ibadan. His works have appeared or are forthcoming on Heart of Flesh Literary Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears, Art Lounge Journal, Brittle Paper, Shallow Tales Review, Ekstasis Magazine, Eboquil Magazine, … Continue reading Upon the Conversation of Love.
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