By Isaac Aju: The problem with a battered soul is that when it finds someone who finally picks interest in it, it seems to reveal too much. The problem with a battered soul is that when it finally gives room for love, it tends to love too much. The problem with a battered soul is that in its search for peace and love, it might give itself out without much restraint, because a battered soul seeks just one single human being that will care to listen to its stories. A battered soul has so many...

By Isaac Aju: ( Aba , Nigeria, 2023) I had just resumed work after a short break that I gave myself. We gave ourselves short breaks in our workplace even though it wasn’t written down anywhere or talked about, but all of us who were workers did it sometimes, and when we came back to work, heaven did not fall down, the world did not twist itself out of shape. After all, we were paid according to the amount of work we produced; we were not salaried. When there was little work, we earned little,...

By Isaac Aju: The Kingdom of Biafara, map by John Speed (1676) I am so particularly interested in the Biafran history because what...