Writing by C. I. Aki ( @soul_lit_writer )

Artwork by Harouna Ouédraogo ( @ harounaoart )

Translations byJackqueline Frost ( @_orphique_ )

C.I. Aki is a poet, essayist, editor, filmmaker, and educator in Nashville, Tennessee. Aki’s work centers around the challenges of identity and place in the life of a second-generation Nigerian American. Substack: forthenoones.substack.com


Harouna Ouédraogo was born in 1981 in Ouahigouya, in the north of Burkina-Faso, West Africa. An artist with an expressive and sharp style, Harouna experiences abstraction while giving himself freedom, gesture and movement. Harouna’s works are inspired by the society that surrounds him. The street, the human, the everyday life offer an infinite panel of subjects.