By Multiple Voices, From Everywhere and Nowhere There’s a group chat on my phone —we called it “Diaspora Things” at first.Now it’s just hearts, flags, inside jokes, and long silences. It’s where we drop memes at midnight,say “this UK weather ehn” when we do not know how to say “I’m not coping.” It’s the group […]
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, […]
