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Saraba is a literary magazine focused on the work of new writers in Nigeria and other parts of the African continent. Since 2009, we have published several issues of a magazine, editions of poetry chapbooks, and online-only work.
Saraba Magazine
3y ago
Saraba, the acclaimed literary magazine based in Nigeria, calls for applications for a new editorial team, including an Editor, Fiction Editor, Poetry Editor, Nonfiction Editor, and an Assistant Editor.
Since 2009, the editorial team has included Emmanuel Iduma and Dami …
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Saraba Magazine
3y ago
The room is small. Its white walls are smudged with smoke, dried stew, and fingermarks. A white mosquito net hangs from the ceiling, falling to the sides of the bed. There is a stove at a corner with some plates …
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Saraba Magazine
3y ago
Issue 1: Family
Our inaugural issue. Guest-edited by Jumoke Verissimo, the Family issue is the tissue from which our subsequent efforts were borne. What we have decided to do, here, is to set it in the template of its progenies. …
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Saraba Magazine
3y ago
Dear Reader,
Today, February 15, 2019, Saraba turns ten. The past decade has seen the magazine grow from being the dream of two young and struggling writers into an established literary magazine of international repute. As part of our anniversary
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3y ago
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Saraba Magazine
3y ago
We are pleased to announce the release of an anthology of new nonfiction by ten writers from Cameroon and Nigeria, edited by our cofounders and editors Dami Ajayi and Emmanuel Iduma, and the editor and founder of Bakwa Magazine, …
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Saraba Magazine
3y ago
This photo-story is part of a wider project by Immaculata Abba—Enugu is in the hands of God—with which the writer and photographer is exploring Christianity in Nigeria, using Enugu as a case study. Here, she considers the significance of Sundays …
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Saraba Magazine
3y ago
Photograph by Obuh Christopher Nelson
My father’s voice was there—
this shall be the front
and that the back—
rising as the masons read the plan.
I’d guessed it right. Even at eleven
I could guess what a building plan …
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Saraba Magazine
3y ago
Photograph by Obuh Christopher Nelson
Shit in a gurney bag
a long dead dog with its head cut off,
a body without hair
with its pink tits sticking in the air
A white doll with one of its eyes gouged …
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Saraba Magazine
3y ago
Photograph by Obuh Christopher Nelson
He begins his day by opening and closing his laptop. Slapping the laptop close brings a certain kind of pleasure. The pleasure of performing frustration. Of an inability to write. The kind one sees on …
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