| STORY DESCRIPTION The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts presents Yemoja's Tears: An Anthology of Water, Bodies and Bodies of Water, a creative and analytical project to raise awareness and funds for water safety engineering throughout vulnerable communities in Nigeria and the African Continent. This anthology features editors Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Alexis Brooks de Vita and introducing Joshua Ichor Keghnen in a collection of stories, poetry and analysis by Mame Bougouma Diene, Alex Jennings, Candice Thornton, Joyce Chng, Annette Meserve, Eileen Gunn, Solomon Uhiara, F. Brett Cox, Wuraola Kayode, Gillian Polack, Alfonso Arteaga Rodriguez, James Morrow, A.E. Fonsworth, Uchechukwu Nwaka, Mingle Moore, Jr., Virgilia Ferrao, Regina M. Hansen, Albert Uriah Turner, Jr., MultiMind, James H. Ford, Jr., Mary A. Turzillo, Desireé Y. Amboree, Ceschino, Lakunle Whesu and Vuyokazi Ngemntu. Keywords related to this title - click on a keyword to find more, related stories Anthology Poetry Analysis Fiction Water Africa Nigeria Author information: JFA, published since 1988, is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in Literature, Art, Drama, Film, and Popular Media. It is published three times a year by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
Like the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, JFA welcomes papers on all aspects of the fantastic in world literatures and media, as well as interdisciplinary approaches including African/Diaspora Studies, anthropology, area studies, critical game studies, disability studies, future studies, gender studies, history, Indigenous studies, music, philosophy, political science, postcolonial studies, psychology, queer studies, religious studies, science and technology studies, and sociology. All papers are made available in English and fully refereed. The journal is indexed in the MLA Bibliography. Visit the author website at:http://www.fantastic-arts.org/jfa/ External Reviews Creatives and Scholars Decry Assaults on Ecosystem, Rally Support for Clean Water in Yemoja’s Tears.
Yemoja’s Tears: An Anthology of Water, Bodies, and Bodies of Water, edited by the trio of Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Alexis Brooks de Vita, and Joshua Keghnen Ichor, is a powerful collection of 26 works that highlight the perilous consequences of human recklessness on Earth’s ecosystems. Through fiction, poetry, and essays, the anthology underscores the urgent crisis of potable water scarcity while offering pathways toward solutions.
My own encounter with this crisis struck on the last Eid day. Traveling to my mother’s village, 12 miles from Kano, I forgot to bring water as I used to. A mistake made grievous under the unforgiving 41°C sun. After two hours, parched and desperate, I asked for water. They brought it chilled, something that made it alluring to my dry throat, but some particles in the water stared at me and I became frightened. Typhoid, a disease borne by contaminated water, had taken my high school girlfriend years before, and since then, I had a phobia for it. My trepidation for unclean water trumped. I spent 7 hours in the village with a dry throat. For me, it was safer to risk dehydration.
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