FATSSSA PRESS -- University of Ibadan, Nigeria

  By Bhagemede My alarm rings and suddenly I get off the bed… well not because of the alarm but because I heard a voice calling out to me saying:   “Get off me!” I was stunned, the room was quiet as usual alongside the clashing of buckets in other rooms but I was sure of what I heard. I jerked up; the voice spoke again   “Finally, you get off uhh… it’s about time” My bed spoke, the whole scenery was… hysterical. The alarm continued to ring. “You can speak?” I asked. “Yes, yes I can”.   You’re quite cocky for a bed - I mumbled. “Why don’t you get off at the sound of the alarm, you set it for a reason… right?” It asked. I was still in awe. I can’t believe I’m actually talking to my bed… that’s not intentional- I answered. It started again “Each day, it’s ‘just five more minutes’ which turns to ten minutes then hours” it continued “Let’s not even talk about the previous nights – you are to sleep early but rather choose to be on your phone till God ...

                      By  ODUKOYA GRACE OMOLOLA    Bound to the invisible chains weighing me down I tug helplessly like a zombie, looking back and forth   Torn between being the perfect version of the “her” in their heads   Or maybe the real “her” deep down that I maybe haven’t even realised   Like a china doll with a smile plastered on her face, I wave like the illusion    Of perfection I seemingly symbolize    My voice is barely more than whispers, never heard I am  Smiling even amid fire, because that makes me a virtuous   woman          I try so hard to scream but a tiny squeak comes out          I am lost between a cage of the perfect daughter, mother, wife    What about me?          Aren’t I something without being attached to someone’s   I thought so hard as I l...

By Victoria Adeusi. The sun brightens  the day The moon brightens the night They are both light but function differently. They never struggle with one another. Imagine the sun struggling with the moon for night Imagine the moon struggling with the sun for a day. What will lighten the day? What will lighten the night? *Chaos* Each understanding of its function is what has given us light. Only if humans can learn from the sun and the moon we probably would have a better world. Probably, men will not harm themselves for power The innocents would have survived till now  Probably the  night will not be as terrifying as it is Perhaps the day will be as peaceful as the garden. Maybe our mind will experience all the peace it deserves. Presumably, our love for one another will fill the whole earth. But do we understand our position Why do we have to feel inferior or superior No function is irrelevant If man says the moon is irrelevant, then nothing will beautify the ni...