Dami Ajayi’s second volume of poems, A Woman’s Body is a Country, interrogates the ramifications of affection. A work of impressive artistry, these are poems of life turned inside out, where time cheats on writers, and the people and things at the brunt end of our oppressive pleasures come back to haunt us.

In his engrossing collection, poet Logan February documents and interrogates grief, and God, and examines what it is to be on the outside, even in the family setting–the reality of having a queer identity in the African world. In this volume, eroticism and manic depression are navigated alone.

Whispers is a collection of poems of two sparring protagonists who are trying to out-do one another, share experiences and growth.

?Oruh?s work impresses upon the reader an openness, an untrammeled bluntness against oppressors of social and economic imbalances in an age where the young is lost in his voyage across the gulf of defining the meaning of life in Nigeria,? said the statement.

Could it be that global events have aligned to fit a particular purpose . . . for such a time as this?

Hadassah s eyes widened, as she fought back the tears. Do you have in mind a name for me then? She loved this man dearly. Esther.

After They Left chronicles the life of a young woman, Mafeng and her two young children, Kim and Jugu, as they barely survive a mob inspired massacre.