What do days like birthdays, anniversaries remind you of? Personally, for me, they are a sordid trip back to the understanding that I am a human being with certain unavoidable ties to certain human cultures and traditions I have to participate in. Also, as someone who prefers to be in…

In January of 2020 when I had an opinion piece/personal essay published in The New York Times, I was fairly certain of two things. …

This is the sixth year since my mother passed away. I still haven’t cried, I haven’t bowled over in spasms of grief and despair. I am not much of a crier anyway, but the point is, I haven’t felt any of those things I was certain grief would come with…

Book: Of Women And Frogs| Fiction| Pages: 414.| Farafina.| Year: 2018| Author: Bisi Adjapon. In her introduction to Bad Feminist, Roxanne Gay says “Feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.” …

Book: We Won’t Fade Into Darkness| Fiction| Pages:135| Year: 2018.| Parrésia publishers| Author: TJ Benson. - At the core of this collection and in the very material of its making is an avid engagement with the future. Its possibilities, plausibilities, warped juxtaposition with the past, implication of the present and…

In today’s best of nonfiction, we bring you excellent, deep, reflective works that challenge us to not just feel, but to experience along with their authors everything that make the stories amazing reads. Enjoy! Home. (Arts and Africa) By, Ope Adedeji. “These men, I later think walking to campus, would…

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Home by Ope Adedeji.

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