by Enugu Literary Society | Apr 13, 2025 | ELS Journal
Photocredit: Jite Agbro Art Cheleku is a child everyone despises. She was raised in the outskirt of Ikenga, beside an old tin factory where a girl (who some say had male genitalia) was stripped naked by enemy soldiers and raped during the Biafra war. I know this story...
by Enugu Literary Society | Apr 13, 2025 | ELS Journal
Photocredit: Bellatory If they asked me when everything started, I would say it was the night after she had Somkene. In the weeks before that night, she had looked forward to having her child, decorating the nursery with different shades of pink teddy bears, the...
by Enugu Literary Society | Feb 8, 2025 | ELS Journal
Photo credit: Letterpile One night in August, he returned. We had finished dinner and I had put out the lamp and Mama had said the bedtime prayers, when the knock came on our door, loud at first, and three soft raps after a while. My mother was already asleep....
