BOOK REVIEW: “Colours of Identity” BY Deji Adeyemi

ABOUT THIS BOOK “Ideas are great, imaginations are better.”Why colours of identity? What are colours of identity?All living beings have identities, shades of our individualities. I think these individualities are natures and colours of what and how we allappear in.Yet, the beauty in diversity makes all these colours combine to produce a knitted platform. These…

Losing an Angel

Mark watched as they lowered the body into the ground. "Dust to dust, ashes to ashes..." The words of the minister drowned as he remembered all his mother represented. They were no tears this time, just a dull throbbing pain that spreads like disease through his whole body. His heart felt like they would break…

BOOK REVIEW : “ECLIPSE” BY NED CHINEDUM NWABUNIKE

ABOUT THIS BOOK WEST AFRICA 1967 The welter events of the civil war left an indelible mark which was visibly etched for a longer period of time in the eastern Nigeria. When the leaders of the Igbo called for a separation of the new acclaimed nation, Biafra from Nigeria; it sparked up a fire that…

Missing you… Poetry

​My heart aches I must be missing you It's overwhelming It's overpowering I am trying hard Trying to bury it under water --- My heart aches I must be losing it Screws and bolts to my mind It's disaster One I am trying hard Trying to submerge in water --- A wistful feeling A wishful…

Release me!…Poetry

​I woke up with a splitting headache And a sad heart I was born with a clay spoon All the curse words flows into my mind I desperately want out This constricting place This disabling environment This fake - ness I want something more I can be better this I know Look into my eyes…

The Quiet Inn

One word gotten after a long while of shuffling the squares. The others blurred before her eyes as she got the word QUIET The Quiet Inn, that deserted place, where her worst nightmare began. Shutting her eyes, she bowled over as  pain shot through her heart. The forgotten past became back to life in a…