Ayokunle Falomo Archives

On Diaspora: A Short Essay (Ayokunle Falomo)

Verity La May 24, 2019 Discoursing Diaspora, Nonfiction

I didn’t know to dig deep into my own history until I heard Ariana, Loyce and Mwende talk about how deep the colonizers dug their hands into our soils. And …

Everything is as it should be: Jessica Au's CargoAugust 5, 2011
Review by Bel Woods If Puberty Blues was one extreme of teenage beach culture, Cargo is another. It’s the loners; the kids who mature quietly at the fringes, drift, dip their toes into the ... Read More
The Burden of Wings (David Adès)May 15, 2015
At first, everything was blurred, beyond comprehension. Testing, I hovered above, taking in a new perspective, strange, troubling. I watched myself retreat, backed into a corner, on my knees, in ... Read More
Transcarpathia (Nathanael O’Reilly)May 2, 2017
I. We spent a summer late last century in the former USSR at the confluence of the Tiza and Rika rivers living in a Transcarpathian valley with the mafia the ... Read More