By @anesuchikwava28 – He said, “Tell me something real about you.” And I paused — not because I didn’t have something real to say, but because I was wondering how real he was ready for. How do you explain that you are falling in like, while also quietly panicking about your visa status? That your […]
By @kwamemensah34 There is a certain silence I sit with every month.It comes just after I open my banking app.Just before I send money back home. It is not bitterness.It is not resentment.It is just… silence. Like a breath I forgot I was holding. Because I am the family bank.And the bank must always open. […]
By @amaaddo71 – I did not realise how deeply personal clothes could be until I stood in the middle of a Primark in Peckham holding a grey puffer jacket and wondering if this was how my culture would slowly start to die. Dramatic? Maybe. But in that moment, it felt like the final surrender. A […]
By @promise – I do not speak you as often as I should.Sometimes, I even dream in English. But when I stub my toe, when the plantain burns, when the bus splashes water on me in the rain — it is you that leaps from my mouth. Raw. Unfiltered.You, my first language.My mother tongue. Igbo, […]
