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Welcome to the June edition of Creative Spotlight, an interview column featured monthly in the Writers Space Africa (WSA) Magazine. In this edition, I had a chat with Stephanie Chizoba Odili. She [...]

Once upon a time I was a wee-nipper There a plucky woman Who always was on hand to satiate my thirst? A tenacious woman of virtue, She weathered my boyhood storms Sparing my blushes when I erred [...]

Marriage beckoned and your feet danced astray into it. You laid bricks on the cathedral of regret; which marriage had laid the foundation. But motherhood was a new page to your story; you found [...]

In a splash of the ocean and beauty of the beach In a secret of the sand and thoughts of the sea You are like this pebble, just in my reach A great treasure, a royal gem! Noisy gongs have [...]

My matron is more poetry, The voids, the curls are brimmed With cadence ballads. She nurtures the hearts of her heirs Who still read into the darkest days. Her torso ripens to birth stories In [...]

I feel it coming… Ensuring stability with every move__ As she did alone. Gone but, My mother and I are one. Come and go__ Stressing out on the who & what – Casket, food, family [...]

If love were a drop and sacrifice a shade of red Mother would be an ocean of burgundy Her love may be laced with tequila And her sacrifice tinted by purple regret But the warmth of her heart Like [...]

He wiped his brow, and paced back and forth, shouting gibberish. Sbo looked around at everyone. They all had their eyes closed, their hands in the air. Some had tears streaming down their cheeks. [...]

“You shouldn’t watch TV, it’s the devil’s black box,” I remember my dad quoting sarcastically. I was a little girl and didn’t understand whatever he meant. I wasn’t Ben Carson who had to regulate [...]

The cathedral doors were slowly closing and Jumo managed to slip between them before they shut. The androids manning the cathedral doors looked at him blankly. He instinctively begged their [...]