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Poetry – Olumide Manuel

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 10, 2023
Bamboo, Bride of The Forest Bamboo, bride of the forest  the cymbals of winds    &   your fine  many knees ripens with the autumn’s mouth. 

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Poetry – Shade Olaoye

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 10, 2023
My Heart Is With a Woman The last time I got into my body, I left a strand of hair, a fist full of joy,  and the back lens of 

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Poetry – Wisdom Nemi Otikor

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 10, 2023
I Talk to a Friend About Heartbreak While on the Third Mainland Bridge Watching the Waters “I do not know if I can bear this pain,” he says. Pain

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Poetry – Ojo Taiwo

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 10, 2023
I Want This Place to Feel Like Home it’s September and I burn to be part of the world growing out of a cockcrow. there is no earth between

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Poetry – Iheoma Uzomba

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 10, 2023
Conversations with the Sea How do you dress the wounds of history, or stitch the scars of a race whose ancestry you have swallowed with your

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Poetry – Henrietta Ogu

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 10, 2023
Homecoming If a day comes when you are served love like a noxious meal that evokes pain draws blood leaves scars   If that day comes I hope

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Poetry – Salvy Snr

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 10, 2023
the years & what do we do, plagued with this knowledge that we carry? liken ourselves to the dusk that bends earthwards as light springs in

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Poetry – Mahbubat Salahudeen

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 10, 2023
Homecoming After a quiet walk through a deserted neighborhood, Ummi tells me that the dried bloodstain I’d seen bejewelled across the

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Poetry – Shola Balogun

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 10, 2023
Alev In a thunder dimension of a new alphabet She is the present tense, An astonishing revolutionary reality Of my burning Nijinsky. Her smile is

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Poetry – Sodïq Oyèkànmí

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 10, 2023
I Dream in My Mother Tongue  heavy with foreign dialects, my mouth keeps faltering  at making enough river of words  to marathon into my mother

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