The Weight of Becoming: What Strength Passes Down A review of Gideon Adeyeye’s poetry collection Vic’Adex · October 2026 A boy runs to his father after his brother comes home bleeding. He expects intervention. Instead, his father asks what he intends to do about it. In First Child, the opening poem of Gideon Adeyeye’s The […]
Nothing About Me Was Wasted: Who Gets to Decide What You Are Worth? A review of Folawe Mustapha’s debut poetry collection Vic’Adex · October 2026 “A response can take a whole afternoon to cross the distance between us.” That image, from Folawe Mustapha’s Nothing About Me Was Wasted, stayed with me because of how ordinary […]
Poetry The Cause, the Cross, the Cost Poem by Vic’Adex · 2026 Sometimes I wonder why the someday ofNegro spirituals cannot be todaySpirited people high on hope, seeing the promiseThrough the tainted telescope of crude imagination. Imagine you, on a bike, Sunday eveningAn antagonist wiggle of his bikeIn an epileptic attackYou feel the impact You […]
Poetry Finding God Poem by Vic’Adex · 2026 IOnce I wondered if God was realOr like some sayWhether He was the myopic creativityOf uncivilized minds, of primitive machinationsUnsophisticated in the ways of scientific inquiry Please, save me from the self-righteous,The battering of your hypocritical eyes As if you’ve never asked this same question beforeBefore Sunday-school […]
Poetry Why we dance Poem by Vic’Adex · 2026 They saywhy do you danceWhen all about you is the music of chaos? What gives you joyIn this grim place,Where we bury dreamsWasted on people whose love is forgotten? What is your hope?What is your audacious confidenceIn the midst of this calamity? Talo gunyan fun e […]
Before the Heaviness On Lilian Onyinye Okoloye’s The Life I Learnt to Carry Vic’Adex · September 2026 A review of Lilian Onyinye Okoloye’s The Life I Learnt to Carry Before ever having to carry grief, responsibilities, or the other burdens of adulthood, there was a girl living beneath a familiar roof, nursing dreams that had […]
