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Ever-intensifying light is undergirding a powerful international force of military troops, individuals in governments and the private sector, and extraterrestrial special...
The New Coin I found
by Obinna Chilekezi Meeting you, Soxna
Has awakened me to doorsteps
Of new dreams, of living afresh. It made me know
The real taste of...
Xenophobia
Can I call this an infection?
Or that you are a copy-cat
Since the ugly drums of xenophobia
The river Gambia flows not to my smile Two of...
Banjul this afternoon
by Obinna Chilekezi I can’t comprehend the weather
as the sun goes laughing in this cold
around the town. The skies are songless, but
the roads are...