Identity waits in the quiet after the body. It stands like a figure at low tide, half revealed, half taken back by the sea as the body gives its last …
Siji Atagbon
The ocean returns like a patient ancestor, its tide a slow knocking at the door, persistent, certain, threading saltwater through the cracked tar of streets long abandoned by planners who …
THE road remembers their footsteps even when the dust has forgotten their names. Three shadows once walked here, lean as young iroko shoots, trading laughter like palmwine, trading arguments like …
There are mornings when the light enters the room as if it has been carrying her name all night, soft at the edges, unsure whether to knock or simply spill …
And when the year turns like a calabash in careful hands, we gather at the edge of the night where the old moon loosens its grip on the frayed hem …
December lands in Lagos like a push notification bright warning, no mute button. Harmattan dust floats between flyovers and Instagram stories, and the air thickens with premium expectations. Not gratitude, …
WE gather now in the register of the familiar, not to announce beginnings, not to scatter rice at the steps of a church or throw bouquets of flowers, nor to …
- Poetry
Seven decades of Courage, Resilience, and Service
by Siji Atagbonby Siji Atagbon 1 minutes readThey enlisted in 1955, feet steady on the red earth, independence on the horizon, uniforms crisp against the wind of doubt, eyes lit with a flame that said: we too …
Animal Farm The farm is Nigeria, its soil red and dark with promise, its air thick with fame and slogans. Once, the animals rose hooves pounding like drums, horns lifted …