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A literary magazine that publishes notable fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and book reviews.

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Meet the winners of the 2025 Isele Prizes!. Josiah Ikpe's “Not Like Other Boys” wins the Isele Short Story Prize. Tolu Daniel’s '“Notes of a Nonresident Alien” wins the Isele Nonfiction Prize. Fatima Abdullahi's “Three Poems” wins the Isele Poetry Prize.
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elegy the animal is broken open  like dried palmnut, beads of blood  litter the ground like dew drops.  like struck guitar strings, my insides  quiver for the cocoon of my mother’s embrace,  …
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Author’s Note: I have written this essay in the spirit of an unconventional writing style that often incorporates elements that are more reminiscent of poetry than standard (non)fiction prose. The …
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Waist Beads | Ber Anena
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The man I was loving froze when his hand encountered a string of beads on my waist. We were getting naked for the first time, and I had, without meaning to, kept the beads a secret.  His chest…
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fritɔŋ surreal | Victor Forna
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ascension town headstones. a crow sets out for the cemetery at ascension town. it settles on a night-spattered headstone. it lifts its wing. it picks at its feathers. remembered with love, says the…
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The Struggle For Freedom | Chidera Ochuagu
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1. I like to think of myself as an activist I advocate for myself. I stand up for myself. I campaign for myself. My life is my first project, I am my own activist, I fight for my own revolution and…
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Feel My Love | Haidar
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I. VULINDLELA  Bebesithi _ people saidUnyana wam ulisoka _ my son is someone who doesn’t get women Angeke ashade _ he would never get married Vul’ indela _ but open the gatesSiyash…
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5 Questions for Chika Unigwe
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In this conversation with Isele, Chika Unigwe talks about her short story, “The Weight of Love”, Princess Diana, and more. Kenechi Uzor:  Your recent story for Isele partly engages…
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Janet Uzor and African Genre Fiction: A Conversation with Miracle Emeka-Nkwor
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Every year at Afobiri Secondary School, a student loses their life to mysterious circumstances. It began with James Iyaye, a one-time senior prefect whose spleen was ruptured by a car as he crossed…
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Word got around that my Poppa, Reuben Henry, had a great bird dog, a lab named Buster aka Buster Fleabag according to Aunt Gert. Poppa explained to me how bird dogs like springer spaniels and Britt…
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She’s a tiny woman. Young too. Some of our women are small but that comes mainly from them spending most of their lives on spacecraft. That’s one of the reasons we’re doing this. …
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Edited by Yvonne Wabai, Ukamaka Olisakwe, and Chideraa Ike-Akaenyi. Cover image by Sergey Vinogradov/Unsplash and cover design by Yvonne Wabai. Table of Cont…
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Termed “the leading intellectually astute voice in contemporary East African poetry” by Evan Mwangi two decades ago, poet-professor Susan N. Kiguli is known as an accomplished scholar of oral poetr…
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In Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Amy March declares to Laurie that she wants to be “great or nothing.” A similar drive for success underlined my childhood. I was fiercely ambitious, and my wild…
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Last week, an android flung itself from the thirteenth story of Odinaka Housing complex on Okpara Avenue. Its body scattered into several tumbling parts on the pavement and a car on the road halted…
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After many weeks of reviewing the excellent stories, poems, and essays published here at Isele Magazine, we revealed the category longlists in April and the category shortlists in May. Finally, we …
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bullets & blossoms | Victor Forna
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and the two men, face to face, dancers, spin, spin, spin, guns in their hands like shɛgburɛ: soldier + madman, in the middle of a street, on a cardboard stage: they are not silent, but there are no…
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RT @IseleMagazine: ‘Ebrohimie Road’ Review: Memorials to the Man Who Lives | IfeOluwa Nihinlola
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Wọlé Ṣóyínká closes his foreword to Ibàdàn: The Penkelemes Years with a defense of ‘faction,’ his preferred mode of writing stories about his life, which involves a “deliberate dislocation of some …
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Three Poems | Ferdinand Emmanuel Somtochukwu
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A Home for Absence If only I could grasp the giggling,press it between the flipping pagesof time like a fragile petal, soft, mellow& fleeting, conveyed by the wind.But joy, joy is a trickster. …
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A Forking of Perches | Neethu Krishnan
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At first, you were situated in space within a single, cosy column of air, your pockets empty, wrists braid-braceleted, hearts brimming; the ether pillar fortressing your synchronous, collective exh…
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Morpheus | Amanda Nechesa
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once, i was morpheus. dreaming only of dreaming dreams. i was insatiable in my weaving of thoughts. i loved the wandering & the wondering, the idea of heaven tasting like the last girl whose bl…
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