May 10, 2024 Sierra Leonean literary space Poda-Poda Stories is looking for writers to submit fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and book reviews to their new call for submissions. If you are a Sierra Leonean writer in Africa or the diaspora, we recommend you submit by the deadline of June 1. Poda-Poda Stories is a Sierra Leonean literary platform that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literary criticism by emerging and established Sierra Leonean writers. Founded in 2020 by Sierra Leonean writer and journalist Ngozi Cole, the platform amplifies and promotes Sierra Leonean literature. Submission Guidelines: Submit here. Deadline: June 1, 2024 It may…
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Olayinka Yaqub Wins the 2023 Awele Creative Trust Award
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Badmus, in this collection of poems, unfurls the undulant currents of love amidst the slippery rails of romance; tilling the shoal of lust and other plains of emotions in fine locutions. He preened up the premise of affectations in an auspicious sophistry; beaming searchlights on the myriads of neurodivergent claim of proposals and oaths yelped by love birds on the cusp of consummating a salacious nudge. Badmus unbracketed some literary devices to outline the flakes of human responses to pain and the weight of love, while interrogating the fairness of honest hits on objects of affection as against reloading the…
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In the opening poem, before learning a new normal, the persona in the poem, enthused about the mischiefs of salvation hawkers and the effect their gouging activities had on their followers and the community at large. The pains of the persona are felt in lines like: