Ekondo Review

22 Contributors, One message: A Rising. @michael_imossan, @jakkybeefive, @asarirl, @nkereuwxm, @bluetiphul @abasimaenyinn, @JoemarioU38615, @gwriting_plug , @JosiahIkpe... Coming December 19. Cover photo credit: @EstherUmoh10

We're still open You have 21 more days to send us your work. ekondoreview.weebly.com/submit.html

@KalahariReview Thank you, Kalahari

Get involved with the @ekondoreview - submissions are open!

@KalahariReview We're open for submissions for our second issue called “Ekong”—War. We seek poetry, fiction, essays, and arts that engage the Biafran war from an Efik-Ibibio perspective.

What new publications came onto the African Literary scene in 2025/2026? What wonderful things are they up to? Who is getting ready to launch? Who needs help getting the word out for submissions or a new issue? Who can we help build up? Please tag them and let us know.

"So they think my mother used my destiny to make money. Of all the damn things, dollars?" Nkereuwem Albert || Fiction || Issue #1 ekondoreview.weebly.com/pieces-of-me-n…

“There is nothing I can point at to prove my body’s insurrection. I am in a body like my first. No, this is not a body. This is a spirit, stripped of flesh.” Gabrielle Emem Harry || Fiction || Issue #1 ekondoreview.weebly.com/this-one-will-…

@ColtanKubiangha @abasimaenyinn wetin be this? 🤣🤣🤣

@abasimaenyinn But I’ve not done my own yet 😔

Let us quietly retire the “-ification” suffix, please. I’m tired. Theorise from another linguistic ramp.

@izom_chisom Thank you, Chisom.

@ekondoreview This is really important work you're doing. My profound respects.

Can't wait to read the works that'll be published here.

@izom_chisom And like you've rightly said, the works aren't just enough out there and that's the gap we so badly want to bridge. It can't be achieved in years let alone in a single literary issue but at least, we'd contribute to that very archive no matter how small.

@ekondoreview You're welcome. I don't think I've read any recent writing on the Biafran war from a non-Igbo or Yoruba perspective. Maybe it's because I haven't searched enough. Or maybe it's because the works just aren't enough out there.

@izom_chisom Oh. No. It's definitely not because you've not searched enough. It's because they are only a smattering. In the last 10 years, the most mainstream mention of the war from an Ibibio perspective is in Uwem Akpan's "New York, My Village” recently longlisted for the NLNG Prize.

Call for Submissions We are seeking poetry, fiction, essays, and visual art that engage the Biafran War (Nigerian Civil War) from an Efik–Ibibio perspective. ekondoreview.weebly.com/submit.html

@thestripesmag Thank you, Stripes. 🫂

@thestripesmag We open in 3 days from now. Our theme is "War". We need works around and about the Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War) from an Efik-Ibibio perspective.

Who's open for subs this February? And what's your theme?

We congratulate Eliongema Udofia (@obongemem_001), our issue 1 contributor on winning the Joe Ushie Poetry Prize, 2026.

“The priests had come last year while brother lay drunk, they bound the spirit of drinking from his body.” Abasiama Udom || Poetry || Issue #1 ekondoreview.weebly.com/two-poems-abas…

@michael_imossan @AfricanPoetryBF @UnivNebPress @JoemarioU38615 The pleasure is ours, Michael.

If you have yet to read the review of my forthcoming full length manuscript from @AfricanPoetryBF and @UnivNebPress, please dig in here. Thank you @ekondoreview and @JoemarioU38615

“I am more fascinated by your skin. Your skin… It’s a brilliant, china-like patina that hides many of your scars; those scars you don’t like to talk about.” Eduek Moses || Nonfiction || Issue #1 ekondoreview.weebly.com/zeru-zeru-edue…

"These paintings are expressions that just needed to exist. They should not explain loss but if they do when you look at them, maybe something is broken inside you." Olivia Onuk || Art || Issue #1 ekondoreview.weebly.com/grief-pieces-o…

“Imossan writes as someone who knows that to look away is to participate. He refuses the cleanliness of distance. He zooms in and in and in, but makes zero judgments even as he reaches an evocative focal point." Joemario Umana || Review || Issue #1 ekondoreview.weebly.com/ldquomemory-is…

"Many have gathered to watch me die today. But I am not their bird, so I know their prayers will fail." Uduak-Abasi Ekong || Fiction || Issue #1 ekondoreview.weebly.com/let-them-call-…