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- The Young Shall Grow; Feed Them, Students' Intellectual Club (Yobe State University Chapter) Compendium of Essays (S.M Lawan) 2022, pg. 1 (Print).
- The Lalita Gamut -Clauses on the Nobel Prize, The Kalahari Review, 2023. 

- The Colour of Love is Zobo, Erato Magazine, 2024. 

- The way of the con artist, The Kalahari Review, 2024.

- . . .but it is not December, The Kalahari Review, 2024. 

- of crushes, of days, of women, of campus politics, Erato Magazine, 2024. 

- C'Lela: Another One Has Come To Stay, Erato Magazine, 2024. 

- On Re-Presenting History 68-sh, 50-sh years later, OlongoAfrica, 2025.

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