Entries by Dami Ajayi

Tuesday Poem by Soonest Nathaniel

Dark Black … for Achalugo… In the swamp where alders grow, the girl with invisible sun in her hair plants follicles of hope. Between darkness and wonder, she charts a new course for spirits in the material world. She believes celestial navigation can be taken on domestic fuels. Far from the country, bridges burn and […]

Tuesday Poem Special by Niran Okewole

THE SEVENTH LESSON The river is a python dancing   It pirouettes, mocking the faux Jew in gaol, Paschal lamb of King Leer, The old sluggish king in his lair Railing at the choice of holy writ While the sun also rises over purgatory –   Ali Ghieri’s hope of redemption rests In the thousand […]

Tuesday Poem by Tunji Olalere

ABOSEDE Then the women began to cry under the gaunt almond tree your things were gathered afoot like luggage awaiting the voyager. They talked about never seeing you again about being left in the stealth of dawn. How you did not count out loud or say it was your last breaths. But you were there, […]

Album Review: On Falz’s Third LP Album, 27

On October 27, 2017, Falz clocked 27 and he celebrated his new age by dropping an album called 27. Dropping a surprise album will always be cool. It is a pity Beyoncé already immortalised this practice by lending it her name for our times. At 17 songs (2 bonus tracks included) lasting two minutes shy […]

Tuesday Poem by Adebayo Lamikanra

A Woman’s Body A woman’s body is Whatever you want it to be under the scrutiny of massive thought It expands to fill The limit of the most fertile imagination A woman’s body is A temple high up in the sky A place of solemn worship To be approached on bended knees With reverence bordering […]

Tuesday Poem Special by Yomi Ogunsanya

  The Strays For the anthropologist manqué from Ijebu and his fellows He strayed from a place of ideas, where certain “Philosopher Kings” speak ex cathedra about Plato’s politics and depoliticizing Kant’s crypto-conservative kitchen— this careerist, now the roving ambassador of a bald-headed plutocrat. He found escape in the indiscipline of a rogue discipline straggling […]

Tuesday Poem by Logan February

Insulin Yes, they warned him about the sugar rush. And no, he didn’t listen. The beehive sounded much like any radio. Who can blame him for following it, his calves twitching with excitement. No one knows how far he went, though I once raised my face to the sky & saw a pair of eyes […]

On Sauti Sol’s Sultry Soul: Review of Live and Die in Afrika

Foreword: This was written before Wakanda became mainstream. Kenyan music, and perhaps the entire oeuvre of East Africans, is not much popular in Nigeria but if there is interest, there is internet. For those who have visited East Africa, they swear that you will hear Wizkid screaming “your bom bom is bigger than Bombay” in […]

On Olamide’s Lagos Nawa

Half way into Lagos Nawa, Olamide’s seventh album, he asserts that he owns Tungba after first insisting that Sunny (that is King Sunny Ade) owes the guitar, on the hook of Saysaymaley. First reaction is to ask how the Ibadan-based Yinka Aiyefele feels about this spurious claim. Second reaction is to warn Hiphop and Rap […]