Saturday, July 27, 2024

DIACRITIQUE

Letter to my Son: A Short Story by Joy Isi Bewaji

Under the dongoyaro tree, there I sold oranges loved...

The Geography of Memory: Fiction by Kabu Okai-Davies

Memory dances like a mirage, alchemy of metaphors for...

My Grandmother: A Short Story by Andrew C. Dakalira

There was one thing which really bothered me quite a lot. I was only seventeen years old. I was going to live in this village for a long time, God-willing. Lying on top of a coffin all the way to the graveyard was not going to help my social standing in any way...

Just Flow!

The popular jingle "If it is not Panadol it...

A Reading Culture Is Good for both the Poor and the Rich

The Western world has a passion and regard for...

Toward an African Renaissance: A Review of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Something Torn and New

Toward an African Renaissance: A Review of Ngugi wa...

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Kabu Okai-Davies: Expatriate of the Imagination, Emigrant of Dreams

Sola Osofisan interviews Kabu Okai-Davies, Australia-based Ghanaian poet, playwright,...

Victor Ehikhamenor: Confronting an Empty Canvas

My muse is like the shell to its tortoise, we go everywhere together. But she is more active while I am in Nigeria...

Dr. Amitabh Mitra: A Creative Approach to Healing

  Sola Osofisan interviews Dr. Amitabh Mitra, a South African...

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

…tying the knot of Nigerian unity Characters ManWoman Performance Note  There is a...

Hayley Gibbons | Awakened

Primal she never could quite understand why he feared his own...

Two Summers: Poems by Akin Adesokan

TWO SUMMERS I Last summer, every summer, The coastal capital washed in...

Amarachi J. Ike | Genesis

GENESIS it started with a cup of coffee on the...

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Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

   Sista mi, how you naw? It has been...

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

It’s so cold. My nostrils are clogged. My cheeks...

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

This is what happens to my tears and the...

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

I am Tafadzwa. When I left Harare last month...

Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

FINAL BANQUET OF DESIRES It is prison culture to give...

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

She can’t sleep. It must be the worry, seasoned...

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

IDANRE Woman you are sad!‘Tis the same with me.—Ralph Armattoe. I.My...

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