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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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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

Namwali Serpell: Planting Seeds in a Garden of Intention

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

“My repression is as legitimate as your freedom”: A Conversation with Yẹ́misí Aríbisálà

Yẹ́misí Aríbisálà, formerly Yẹ́misí Ogbe, is a food memoirist...

Harry Garuba: In Praise of “the Thursday People”

Harry Garuba who passed in February 2020 was a...

“The artist is a person at a crossroads” – Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Cameroonian Scholar Francis B. Nyamnjoh on Art, Academia, indebtedness,...

Prof. Monica Mweseli: Okot P’bitek’s Call Still Relevant to All African Writers

Political turbulence following Idi Amin’s 1971 coup in Uganda...

Nnedi Okorafor: I just have stories to tell…

Nnedi Okorafor is an important writer, period. She is...

E.C. Osondu: A Writer must come to the blank page with humility

E.C. Osondu is the author of Voice of America...

Wesley Macheso: Fiction is greater than the reality it mirrors

Wesley Macheso teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Mzuzu...

Akin Adesokan: The Endurance of a Literary Culture

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