In America – A Short Story by Maik Nwosu
i My decision to go to the United States of America was a final act of desperation. In my village, Sa’ra, where I had been a schoolteacher until my shocking dismissal, I had initially seen myself as a...
View ArticleBallad Of The Peace-Keeper – Poems by Maik Nwosu
Passages i Princesslisten, maya, listen to the echoes of midnight stillsthis song is for yesterday out of phosphorescent wells in this darkness I see in bold relief the footpaths we never walked and i...
View ArticleThe Dogs of Sa’ra – A Short Story by Maik Nwosu
It was in New Maroko, where I finally got a job in a decrepit high school, that Biafra caught up with me. I had been born after the Nigeria-Biafra civil war and had a poor knowledge of the...
View ArticleThe Writer and the Global Frontier
Looking back, it is sometimes difficult to believe that I have already spent four months abroad. How time blurs, in retrospect. When I left Lagos, almost a month late, for my originally scheduled...
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