Afapinen

A magazine of Nigerian criticism. Founded in July 2021.

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Afapinen was started as a literary magazine to platform new voices in critical writing on visual art, literature, and music, in defining a new age.

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It has been two years since the singer D'Banj released an album, in August 2024, to restore his seemingly lost position. Carl Terver reflects on "The Entertainer D'Sequel" in a retro review, calling it penance and a late rediscovery of the artist:
https://t.co/5YEgTMGAj0

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...I, cursing Jehovah for not de-
fending me from lies. Who is my shepherd?
It is departure. What is his staff? A stri-
king snake. And what can I say? The year
of the end is near. Moloch cheers, Moloch
cheers, for the festival ahead.
—Carl Terver
https://t.co/Mj3oLX9kNc

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we passen en Ƌer swellen urf shame
but ut et me et know urf Ƌe quiescence
urf howƋen we Cracken unƋ grealƋen ut Ƌies?
Ut poet ut poetrie lemme unfigure noette en
mess ut so far urf Ƌer killen, Ƌer worlƋ
ut berrieƋ unƋ sunken in Ƌer blackenwholve.
—O. Fanen
https://t.co/vRHZibU5lL

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The women will walk back into the cold of
their poverty. The cars will drive back to the
warmth of wealth. I will not sleep. I will watch the city
wake inside me. My eyes ever-present
like the streetlights on Sheraton Road.
--Jamila Abbas
https://t.co/GgRHdG63ub

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how do i love my roses & my dandelions the way the sun
paints both with the legend of Van Gogh? to find myself &
be at peace with my flowers, i enter the garden through the roses,
the grace of our Lord Jesus rising from its window like naked maids
https://t.co/QBSgjmOSP1

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"In your afterlife, here or somewhere in the blues, you become an exit wound, dead to the music of carrion flies. Your memory becomes an atlas of burning villages. Your portrait earns emojis on Facebook; as the world waits in bated breath for your rede..."
https://t.co/2u0sIvWLJE

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And for the first time, this infinite loop of uncertainties felt all right; I think Komunyakaa was most grateful. In his poem “Thanks,” he reconciles his helplessness with gratitude: “Thanks to the tree / between me & a sniper’s bullet.”—Prosper C. Ìféányí
https://t.co/NExt8ik6dD

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“I think the story also questions the limits of dualism, although I am not sure the scriptwriters intended this. But I, as other viewers, perhaps, can only interpret this in the fashion most sensible to me,” writes Beloved John.
https://t.co/cqKfg8mcRV

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“After a rumour swept through the country of the second coming of Jesus Christ . . . people sold all their food and belongings, some even their houses, and slept in churches, fasting and praying and yearning for heaven.”
https://t.co/rP9uzjnmrj

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According to Isaiah Adepoju, “Dream Count might seem to make Kadiatou’s story already rendered. Nevertheless, the story has not been touched at all.”
https://t.co/C6uCLowaWZ

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As we continually sink into algorithmic reality, how does poetry help us imagine what meaning remains for us in it, what humanity remains in the simulacra of our already cyber-distorted lives? writes Carl Terver
https://t.co/2iLriAEyEf

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We may be lonely, we may be cosmically f—ked, we may be doomed. But we still turn to algorithm for help when we consult our devices, merging with its own reflexive disorientation with our desires which it constantly has to learn from.—Carl Terver https://t.co/2iLriAEyEf

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“In an age of man and machine, man lives in contradiction; and language itself is in contradiction. Can poetry resolve these contradictions?” writes Carl Terver in his review of Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu’s "Kill the Poet." Read here: https://t.co/2iLriAEyEf

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why are you gay?
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Does time kill all gods?

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A young man nearly loses his friend to the #manosphere.
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In the wake of what many now suspect to be an uncanny officiating of the World Cup, be reminded to read what Shaakaa thinks about a lost culture of what the World Cup use to be.
https://t.co/UgWvphb3OZ