FORTUNATE TRAVELLER

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Poetry

The Fishwife and Other Poems by Tade Ipadeola

November 30, 2023

The Fishwife The fishwife in her wooden market stallTucks in a franc into her black brassiere,Smiles as she hands over the fish. She is tallHer teeth glisten whiter than the sassier Neighbour’s, whiter than any woman’s, so whiteI wondered if God knew she’d make itInto a magnet for custom and light.I did not ask her name, I wouldn’t pit My halting French against her effortless riverOf Bambara and market French….

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Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Photography

Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio

September 15, 2023

Where words have failed me, photography has given broad expression, giving form to theimages I see in my head, making the intangible real that I may share with the world. By invitingviewers to see the world through my eyes, I aim to foster a deeper connection between theobserver and the subjects that inhabit my frames, calling them to see the stories I capture andencouraging them to discover new ones. By…

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Essay & Review

World at their Wheels: Two Nigerian Travelogues Fifty Years Apart by Janet Remmington

August 18, 2023

AN AFRICAN ABROAD by Ọlábísí Àjàlá (Author), Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún (Preface), Tom Mboya (Introduction), Joane Ajala (Foreword), Masobe Books and Olongo Africa, 2022 [Originally published by Jarrolds:1963] LONDON TO LAGOS: THE JOURNEY OF A LION HEART by David Kunle Adeyanju (Kindle Edition), 2022 Nigerian travellers have long been going places and crafting their travel stories, with no signs of slowing down.  Recently relaunched is Moshood Ọlábísí Àjàlá’s travel memoir classic An…

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Non-fiction

Remembering My NYSC Experience by Adeoye Deborah Adenike

June 16, 2023

There are two categories of frustrating people: the disobedient ones who will hear but will never take heed, and the ones who do not understand. For the hundredth time, my mother shouted from the kitchen, asking if I had packed everything I would need, and I replied in the affirmative. I remember her saying that it would be better to put my stationery in my handbag, as I would need…

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Non-fiction

The Nakedness of Experience by Joseph Omoh Ndukwu

June 9, 2023

I: Morning The world here is open spaces and quiet afternoons. But it is also slow misty mornings. I sit one Sunday charging my phone and waiting for a taxi going to Saki, the first stop on a journey to Ibadan, and I take to look at this place. It is early morning. There are noisy weaver birds in a mango tree just to my right. The ground that falls…

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News & Announcement

Call for Submissions – Becoming Otondo: An Anthology of NYSC Travels Vol II

May 18, 2023

Fortunate Traveller is pleased to call for submissions of creative non-fiction, poetry and photography for the second volume of our National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) themed anthology, Becoming Otondo: An Anthology of NYSC Travels Vol II.  Like our first volume, Government Pikin: An Anthology of NYSC Travels Vol I, guest edited by Sami Tunji and SA Sanusi, Becoming Otondo will tell the stories of Nigerians observing, or that have observed,…

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News & Announcement

The E-Visa Alternative

February 20, 2023

Applying for a visa can be a chore with too much paperwork, especially if you are a Nigerian passport holder which is ranked 91st in the passport index. That is, there are not many countries or places you can visit without going through the cumbersome process of applying for a visa apart from the West African countries because of the ECOWAS free movement pact. And applying for one with this…

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Poetry

Twelve Cities, and Other Places by Karen Petersen

December 9, 2022

Pisa It was necessary to escape from the heat to the Ligurian seaso I got back on the train, the Tuscan countrysideunscrolling before me, in time for a quick lunch in Pisa,with the old joke of holding up the tower for a photo.I walked down a side street just off the Piazza del Duomoand ducked into a place where mostly locals were eating.At the end of a very simple but…

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Non-fiction

My Tale of Five American Cities II by Olukorede S Yishau

November 18, 2022

I conquered five American cities in five days: Janesville, Milwaukee, Washington DC, Madison and more of Chicago. Janesville was a stranger to me. So was Milwaukee. I barely knew about Madison, save for the University of Wisconsin, which occupies a sizable portion of its beautiful landscape. I had not been to Washington but it was not entirely strange to me. I had read about them in books, seen them in…

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