The Journey of a Manuscript
I must begin this article by stating that few aspects of Nigeria’s history have held me captive like the coup of January 15 1966. For close to a decade, well after I left university, I have been...
View ArticleThe History of a Drink – Fiction by Kabu Okai-Davies
Once upon a time in Ayallolo, an imaginary country on the West Coast of Africa, there lived a woman called Auntie Adoley. She manufactured and sold illicit liquor for a living. Her liquor was a...
View ArticleChronicles of a Curfew Foretold – Fiction by Kabu Okai-Davies
The curfew came like an unannounced visitor. It was an omen neither the gods nor witch-doctors, neither palm readers nor the oracles could have foretold in the exuberance of the day before its arrival....
View ArticleMistress of the State – Fiction by Kabu Okai-Davies
Monitoring the last remnants of the brain’s hardware before passing into the oblivion of time, I remembered myself crying. I was at the threshold of death, the final blips, milliseconds of...
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