Chit-Chat, Poetics & Ethos

About the Interviewer JOEL OYELEKE studies Literature in English at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He is a poet, literary enthusiast, God addict, and curator of Poetry Village, OAU. Author of THE THEM IN ME (Direwords, 2022). Co-author of LET ME GRIEVE (ArtingArena Magazine, 2023). He has works published on IHRAF, Read more

threnody

i scribble in my face, my father_ who found strands of  my hair in the teeth of my comb, i remembered when he sewn in the heap in my yard, roses, bougainvilleas, hibiscuses with their sprouts and petals of reds & pinks. but that night, he breathed hope into the Read more

Black Is Beautiful

We are happy to announce our latest publication, our third issue of the LIGHTENING AFRICA publication –Black Is Beautiful. As we have repeatedly claimed, this is our best publication yet, and the reason we’d make such a claim over and over is embedded in the PDF file. Use the download Read more