Ademilola Rhodes chanced on the station. She had just returned home after twelve grueling hours in a Brooklyn care-giving home. At 63, she knew she was not supposed to be doing that sort of tedious job, but she had decided long ago to make lemonade out of the lemon America threw at her. Chief Fehintola was the first person she noticed on the broadcast going on when she switched on the television. 

Dami Ajayi is plugged as a lyrical poet whose use of language and style is daring, visceral, empathetic and sweeping. … You picked the best place to have an argument. A train coach heading from Berlin to Cologne. You picked the best time, too; the quiet time before travellers eased into siesta.  The above lines float the same texture of bewilderment spooled by Brenda Hillman in the poem: During an enchantment in the life. The poem details how we are consumed by love, get beaten more than twice, and become unwieldy disposed to new possibilities – and how we drown…

Nigerian author Olukorede S. Yishau is set to publish his second novel in 2024 titled After the End. The novel will explore the story of two women linked by a common tragedy and published by Masobe Books. Yishau’s story is one of grief but at the same time, romance, betrayal, duplicity and denouement. Idera’s world crumbles when her husband, Demola, dies. As she battles with this reality, she is met with a shocking discovery. A woman appears at her door with a child in hand — Demola’s son. The love of her life, the man whom she felt could do no…

The timepiece on the massive TV set hanging opposite the bed read 3.07 am. Although it was the fourth time she would wake up in three hours, Yemisi was unperturbed that this was looking like a fitful night. She had good reason. This was the third night of her marriage to a man who is clearly heaven-sent, and even waiting up all night would be worth the thrill. Her husband now laid by her side, sleeping soundly and oblivious to her contemplations. She smiled. All is well that ends well, she imagined, the Cheshire cat still on her face.