How to Make Beef Stew from a Country You’ve Never Seen
My mother says the tomatoes must be very red, red like shame, red like joy, red like the wrappers her own mother wore in Owerri market.
Imagining Resistance: Writing Black Liberation Through Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Have you ever read an evident work of fiction and found yourself struck by the power of its truth? That is arguably the underlying goal of every science-fiction novel: to hold up a mirror that transports one into a world woven with so much detail and imagined reality and fake facts that it leaves the reader utterly enchanted and sated and maybe even a little sad to finish the journey.
From Delaney to Adeyemi: The Evolution and Continuity of Black Speculative Fiction
Over the past several decades, Black speculative fiction has undergone a profound transformation. What was once a peripheral and often inaccessible tradition has become a central force in contemporary culture, influencing literature, film, television, and global popular discourse.
Afrofuturism: The Bravery To Remake The World
Since childhood, I have found great comfort in the imaginary; the fantastical. Books became my obsession. As often as they could, my eyes devoured stories of dragon riders and potion makers and mad scientists and mystical warriors—all of whom were the heroes and arbiters of their own futures. The more I read, however, the more frustrated I became: none of these tales were made for me, or for young kids like me.
“Rootwork”
After a lost soul awakens in a rotting forest Deep in the groves of Southern georgia with no memory of her death, she crosses paths with an ancient tree spirit that promises her answers to the questions that torment her.
Coping With the Weight: Race-Based Trauma, Black Nihilism, and Social Work’s Mandate for Healing
Racism inflicts biological stressors, psychological harm, emotional exhaustion, and communal grief, which results in race-based trauma and deepens into what can only be described as Black nihilism: the erosion of meaning, safety, and hope in a world that is organized against Black life and equality. This nihilism shows the breakdown of identity and possibility under racial oppression.
Working Title
He didn’t resist when the drones came. There was no point. The evidence would’ve been absolute—the mimic script, the data echo, the time-stamped credentials of his mother’s clearance key…
Spiritual Economies: The Influence of Religious and Secular Belief Systems on Economic and Political Development in Africa
This paper aims to investigate how specific spiritual and philosophical systems shape economic behavior, governance, and development across Africa.
Black Seeds
The Earth had burned behind them—its atmosphere shredded by solar storms, its oceans swallowing what remained of proud, naive cities. There were no survivors. Other than the 200.
The Writing Process
For me, it is less of a specific practice or method of writing and more of a ‘scream into the void, and wait to see what screams back’ approach.
My (Humble) Rules For Writing
Tips and tricks and other shit
Why I Write
You were give a name before you were given a voice…
Escape From Death Row
The air in Jamar Phillips’ cell hung thick as old soup—buzzing with heat, stinking of rusted blood, mold, and sweat-slicked fear.
Unknown
I feel my synapses spring into action and my vision clears. This thing. It moves in spirals, but also in waves. Teasing. Testing. Teaching. It feels, almost, familiar.
The One Who Hears The World Speak
The cold of cryosleep clung to her bones like ancestral grief, stiffening her joints and quieting her breath.
Chapter One: No Choo Choo For You
By the time I see her, the day’s already gone sideways. She just ain’t realized it yet.
ENTER THE VOID // a return from horizon
Your first memories after death are going to be a little hazy. You shouldn’t worry too much over that; shouldn’t expect too much of yourself. The Void takes pieces from everyone on the journey over. It’s a part of the process.
The Structure of a House is Solid
Chapter 1: Digging Trenches
Chapter 2: Footings and Foundation