I'm starting a new magazine, and the first issue is themed around home. Submissions are due by June 17, 2025 — so we can refine and print by the end of the month. If you're interested, please send in your work at wuruwuru.com.

When I was younger, my mum had my siblings and me on a very strict reading diet. I finished the entire Left Behind series (both kids and adults), memorised books of the Bible and even snuck in parenting and economics books from her library.

What made the most impression though was a periodical called Readers' Digest. I believe this was my first experience of travel. Each edition transported me into a visceral world of global stories and ideas, and I've been hooked on magazines ever since.

For many years, I've wanted to make my own. The perfect magazine. An impressive volume of and for the zeitgeist. Excellent from cover to cover, packed with original writing and images. A visual and intellectual treat with undeniable cultural relevance.

After so long, I'm finally ready.

With this magazine, I want to champion the best ideas — fun, critical, risqué, thoughtful — and spark the kind of dialogue I want to see. My goal, really, is to create a new beacon of excellence in the world.

On the flip side of platform building, there's also a need for connection and community. The best minds of our generation are scattered across the world, and this magazine is an attempt to build a bridge between us. Something global; something lasting.

Our first edition is themed around home.

Home is often imagined as a place in the past, somewhere to return to. But with this volume, our challenge is to imagine home as a destination, somewhere to look forward to.

This delicate balance of past and future thinking is what's encoded into the famous Sankofa symbol. We must learn from the past, but we must also move forward.

If you're interested in contributing to this edition, please send in your essays, images or short films at wuruwuru.com. They don't have to be new stories, as long as they fit with the theme and you have the legal right to publish.

We're unable to offer immediate monetary compensation for your contribution, but you'll get two copies of the final product and royalties on all profit made.

This is a prototype edition, a proof of concept to sell to publishers and investors, and so our first print run will be very small. We'll be working with the Riso printer at 16 by 16.

We're going to print by the end of the month, so all submissions are due by June 17, 2025. If you have any questions, please ask me directly. And if you know someone who should be featured, please share this with them.

Opemipo Aikomo.

June 9, 2025

Submissions

[26 submissions]// home issue
N.F. Kenure[Short Story]

Ekeoma spends a lot of time in her friend's home enjoying class privileges through food, like strawberries, that her own humble background is unable to provide. This story is ultimately about aspiration, the things we long for while we ignore what we have. It is foregrounded by the tension of being in a foreign space depicted through Ekeoma's angst with kneeling. Even though she takes the coward's way out, she gains some perception about her home.

June 16, 2025 11:52 AM

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11jGRAywsWCGjk2dbF9DiW4A5nyZRtK-gaJGey_tLlzE/edit?usp=sharing

Isabella Asiimwe[Film Essay]

A short film that delineates making home and how my practice sits within that through the process of restoration of my family home. A heavy and personal process transmuted into lightness and joy. The exposition and sharing of a space that once held a lot of pain now turned into a place of peace and purpose. Employing my architectural and design experience, a home restoration practice formed. Home as the physical house I grew up in as well as the ethereal embodiment within and amongst community.

June 16, 2025 1:51 PM

https://www.isabellaisabeau.com/eka/

Tola Agunbiade

June 19, 2025 9:59 AM

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