One Poem By Sarah Adeyemo
Sarah Adeyemo is a budding poet, student, avid reader, literary enthusiast, and guitarist. She writes from Ekiti, Nigeria. Fragments of a Broken Voice I rise with balls of sweat, Flowing down in torrents Through my cheekbones, Down to my palpitating chest. Who can read words…
A Short Story By Edwin Mamman
Edwin Mamman is a sonographer and writer. He has work published on KAFART’s The Revue, African Writers Space, Tidings of Magpies magazine, Punocracy, and forthcoming elsewhere. Riding the Waves of Hard Times A yellow and black striped polythene bag dances in the air before settling on…
A Short Story By Aliyu Yakubu
Aliyu Yakubu is a Nigerian academic and writer. He lectures at the Department of Applied Biology/Microbiology, Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa, Nasarawa State. Kabiru, Is That You? It was fifteen minutes past twelve on Wednesday morning. The Sharon in which Nasir and others had been travelling had…
A Short Story By Pacella Chukwuma-Eke
Pacella Chukwuma-Eke is a Nigerian poet and short story writer. She is the winner of the Cradle poetry contest, Abuja Duet Slam, Splendors of Dawn Poetry Prize, and others. The war and the hunt Abu groans; his old life had become a new one after…
One Poem By Tajudeen Muadh Akanbi
Tajudeen Muadh Akanbi is a poet from Osun State, Nigeria. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in African Literary Magazine, Wax Poetry Magazine, icreatives Review, and elsewhere. For Father, A Threnody father, the day you closed your eyes and refused to open it, i…
Eboquills Annual Anthology Launch
We’re so excited to announce that Eboquills has launched an annual anthology. The submissions window opens today, 30th June 2023, and closes on 31st July 2023. For 2023, our anthology will be a curation of fine poetry- all forms of poetry. Theme: Our Girls: Their…
One Poem By Abubakar Shittu
Abubakar Shittu is a 22-year-old from Ilorin, Kwara State. Our Mothers Will Smile On a day the tree leaves will stand erect, Facing up in their colorful green and yellow, just like the smile forming on each mother’s face, their joy knowing no bounds. Countless…
One Poem By Raymond Favour
Raymond Favour is an 18-year-old from Ito, Ika Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Fighting Demons This smiling face camouflages a desert of grief- a heart bleeding from cuts engineered by scalpels clinging to the hand of people I tag loved ones. You see,…
‘Constellations’ gave me the power to arrange my own stars” – Abdulrazaq Salihu
In recognition of the finest and latest African authors from around the world, 10Q is Eboquills’ special feature series dedicated to appreciating the hard work of authors. Today, we speak with Abdulrazaq Salihu, author and Poetry Reader (intern) at Eboquills. He talks to our editors…
Two Poems By Abiodun Salako
Abiodun Salako (he/him) is a Nigerian Journalist, Copywriter, and Resident- at-Sea. In his spare time, he daydreams of Eden. Weekdays At The Home of Our Bones It’s just me and you, drinking milk like adolescence, frothing at the mouth with snacks, and using our faces…
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