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The Walls Are Snitching

The Walls Are Snitching

The pungent smell of paranoia / the pigeon’s red eye / pulsating
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Soukeyna Osei-Bonsu
My phone auto-corrects ‘in sha Allah” to “in shape (of) Allah”

My phone auto-corrects ‘in sha Allah” to “in shape (of) Allah”

& I’m left thinking / that this phone has danced / on the edge of blasphemy / but perhaps, built / on: a pinhole vocabulary / a famished…
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Timi Sanni
Nights Lament for Home

Nights Lament for Home

if i had a dollar
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pyramid jones, the gardener
From the Hilltops

From the Hilltops

From the hilltops and the mountains
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Jummai Umar
Nicki Minaj’s Verse on New Body as an Allegory for Repentance

Nicki Minaj’s Verse on New Body as an Allegory for Repentance

I sink my head into a hard sujood,
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Sadiyah Bashir
The Desert Traveler's Prayer

The Desert Traveler's Prayer

If I will not emerge alive at the other end, please make my body a meal
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Pèlúmi Sàlàkọ́
Desert Dwellers

Desert Dwellers

Hear the singsong of djinns sailing / along with the shifting dunes
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Pèlúmi Sàlàkọ́
Under Your Mother’s Feet: A Continued Conversation With Sadiyah Bashir

Under Your Mother’s Feet: A Continued Conversation With Sadiyah Bashir

“When you become a mother, that’s a weight…The idea that what I do for them could make or break their paradise is amazing to me.”
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The Drinking Gourd
Locating A Living Islam: A Conversation With Sadiyah Bashir

Locating A Living Islam: A Conversation With Sadiyah Bashir

“I grew up in a predominantly Black Muslim community where we knew Islam is a living thing, it is old and young.”
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The Drinking Gourd
Dahlia

Dahlia

I picture the home that will never end / inside the pink hue of a hollowed pearl
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Soukeyna Osei-Bonsu
Making a Case for W.E.B. Du Bois as a Proto Afrofuturist

Making a Case for W.E.B. Du Bois as a Proto Afrofuturist

The term Afrofuturism evokes a stellar litany: musicians Sun Ra and George Clinton, and novelists, Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delany…
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Safiyah Cheatam
Home for Two Weeks

Home for Two Weeks

It had been five years since I had been to Nigeria before returning in late 2019. Five years dreaming about gida, tracking ticket prices…
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Jummai Umar
Hummingbird

Hummingbird

A hummingbird’s heart / is too large for its body
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Sagirah Shahid
blacklighting

blacklighting

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AM
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