Enyinna Nnabuihe

Enyinna Nnabuihe is an Igbo writer and practicing pharmacist, born in 2002 in Lagos, Nigeria. A winner of the 2023 Best Okereke Prize, his fiction has appeared in The Master’s Review, Southern Humanities Review, AFREADA, and elsewhere. His short story, “The Anatomy of a Boy Who Never Became a Man,” was longlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, selected by Rebecca Makkai as a finalist for The Porter House Review’s 2025 Editor’s Prize, and named one of Afrocritik’s 50 notable short stories of 2025. He is currently at work on a short story collection.

The rats in Rahman’s ceiling have a certain music to them—a haunting melody that can’t be mistaken. In the morning, it’s a lilting la-dee-da; by night, a muffled dee-dum, dee-dum. Their shrieks swell and sink […]