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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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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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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

Titilope Sonuga: I believe in truth-telling as a pathway to healing

Títílopẹ́ Sónúgà (she writes it as “Titilope Sonuga”) is...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu: The Legend of Ben Tomoloju

The arts scene of Lagos, nay Nigeria, owes a...

Akin Adesokan: The Endurance of a Literary Culture

Akin Adesokan is unbreakable. This mild-mannered leviathan of letters...

Namwali Serpell: Planting Seeds in a Garden of Intention

Namwali Serpell. Born in Lusaka, Zambia. The ethereal forms...

Jesutomisin Ipinmoye: Dreaming Outwards

A while back, African Writer Magazine published this great...

The Permanence of Loss | A Conversation with Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé

Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé’s debut poetry collection, My Father Paints His...

Uwem Akpan: On Bullets, Bestsellers and Bedbugs

Uwem Akpan In conversation with Sola Osofisan. In 2008, Uwem...

A Hero of his own Myth | Lawrence Winkler in Conversation

"What is your final destination…?" asked the South African...

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún: Renaissance is Badly Needed in African Language Literature

36-year-old Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a poet, blogger, linguist and...