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African Writer
Since 2004
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
African Writer
Since 2004
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Poetry
Solape Adetutu Adeyemi | The Baobab Doesn’t Punch a Clock
Fiction
J.L. Oputa | The Little Golden Pockets
Poetry
Newpanther | Totally
Poetry
Abigail George | The Child of Mulatto Parents
Fiction
Ọláolúwa Òní | Kuli Kuli
Plays
Olaseni Kehinde Precious | When The Engine Goes Silent
Poetry
Victor Ihechiluru Unachukwu | The Ghost of War
Plays
Olu Familoni | Money Baby
Poetry
Omondi | If Einstein Is Right
Fiction
Gabriele Micozzi | Distinguishing Features
Last Month...
Eaton Jackson | The Docks
Poetry
I. BAY DOCK’S PRESENT SILHOUETTE She and I used to sit...
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Emmanuel Papa Quansah | Bring Me Yesterday
Poetry
BRING ME YESTERDAY just when the sun traded light with...
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Ernest Amayogbe | Our Home Is A Gurney
Poetry
OUR HOME IS A GURNEY our home is a gurney...
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Jedidiah Henaku-Budu | I Don’t Want A 9-5
Poetry
I DON'T WANT A 9-5 Warm golden light filters through...
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Samuel Hale | Obituary
Poetry
Obituary "And now who hereis not buried inanother person’s heart?” —...
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Adwoah Nyarkoa | They Eat the Bridge
Fiction
The mahogany door was heavy, carved from old-growth timber...
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Candy Neubert | immigrant
Poetry
immigrant You ask if I can live with you.Yes, if...
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DJ Benhaim | Krypton Fell from Grace & Landed Somewhere in the Ghetto
Poetry
Krypton Fell from Grace & Landed Somewhere in the...
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Jide Odetola | Fela Wan Bath
Non-Fiction
As a fully registered member of Fela Kuti’s implausible...
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Ugochukwu Anadị | Christ And My Lover
Plays
CHRIST AND MY LOVER SCENE ONE Chima’s bedroom. It is a...
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RANDOM CONVERSATIONS
Jesutomisin Ipinmoye: Dreaming Outwards
May 1, 2026
A while back, African Writer Magazine published this great...
Harry Garuba: In Praise of “the Thursday People”
November 30, 2020
Harry Garuba who passed in February 2020 was a...
Titilope Sonuga: I believe in truth-telling as a pathway to healing
July 21, 2017
Títílopẹ́ Sónúgà (she writes it as “Titilope Sonuga”) is...
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu: The Legend of Ben Tomoloju
November 1, 2019
The arts scene of Lagos, nay Nigeria, owes a...
Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai: Yoruba Studies Expert and Polymath
Olabiyi Babalola Yai, linguist, cultural critic, philosopher, Yoruba studies...
A Hero of his own Myth | Lawrence Winkler in Conversation
January 31, 2026
"What is your final destination…?" asked the South African...
Playing with Poetry: A Conversation with Tade Ipadeola
March 31, 2021
"I do think that our greatest investments should be...
H.R. ole Kulet: Education Should Strengthen the Bonds Created by Culture
January 28, 2018
Henry ole Kulet grew up in a village called...
Ogaga Ifowodo: Slipping a Stone in the Sling of Prose and Poetry
January 19, 2016
The name Ogaga Ifowodo, PhD., is familiar to many,...