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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
Saturday, September 14, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
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Justin Demmitt | Hold my hand
Justin Demmitt
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Poetry
Sosy Imafidon | Red Breath
Sosy Imafidon
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CREATIVE NONFICTION
Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
August 31, 2024
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‘He who rides the sea of the Nile must...
Ritah Tumushabe | Sacred Threads: A Personal Journey of Faith and Loss
July 31, 2023
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Today, I have decided to retire my rosary. This...
Rumbie Mugadza | No!
April 29, 2023
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“No” And The Dragon That Could Not Be Slain Your...
Nzube Nlebedim: The Newcomer into America is Uncertain
February 28, 2022
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The newcomer into America from Lagos is a confused,...
Ọ̀ṣúnrèmí Akérédolú | Polygamy and Parkinson’s Disease
July 31, 2024
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It was a very cold February day in Cambridge,...
How to Dispose of Good Shoes in Africa: Non-fiction by Ebuka Prince Okoroafor
November 19, 2017
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The shoes on my feet have seen three generations...
Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu
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Shannon Kenny | The Vigil – a bedtime story
Fiction
Shannon Kenny
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PLAY
Awards Do Not Make Good Writers – Chris Abani
May 21, 2007
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Writers, at one point or the other, have had...
Nuzo Onoh: Terrified of Planes, Heights, Oceans, Thunder, Roaches…
August 17, 2015
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Nuzo Onoh is the author of The Reluctant Dead...
Images that Linger, Words that Bite
May 6, 2007
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And now the horn may paw the air, Howling goodbye. -...
Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
A PLAY PERSONS: OLAOHA, OBINNE, IKEDIKE, NWELUMMA, ANIMOKE, EZEMMUO, VILLAGERS. I Night...
Ayomide Michael Bayowa: Asylum
February 28, 2019
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ASYLUM Far-off, we follow the hearts of rivers in...
In this Darkness of the Sun: Poems by Etornam Agbodo
May 3, 2017
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IN THIS DARKNESS OF THE SUN In this darkness of...
In December Europe Dies…Poems by JKS Makokha
April 26, 2010
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Let Their Conscience Crack Their conscience will crack at last when...
Fiction
Wayne McCray | No Rest for the Wicked
Wayne McCray
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Fiction
Chimezie Okoro | Heat of the Afternoon Sun
Chimezie Okoro
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RANDOM FLASHBACK
After the Storm: NLNG Poetry Prize’s Report and Matters Arising
Essays & Reviews
E. E. Sule
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Bafana, the Boy Shepherd: Fiction by Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Fiction
Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
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Mourning Gunter Wilhelm Grass, Author of ‘The Tin Drum’
Essays & Reviews
Alexander K. Opicho
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LAST MONTH...
Mayuyuka Kaunda | Blink
Mayuyuka Kaunda
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“Literature Can Catalyze Transformation in Society”: A Conversation with Francis Egbokhare
Tolu Akinwole
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Taiwo Akinyemi | The First Night
Taiwo Akinyemi
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Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza | Penance
Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza
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Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe | Icarusting
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe
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Mark Kennedy Nsereko | The White Women of Ben Kiwanuka Street
Mark Kennedy Nsereko
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The Sight of the Sound: Instructions for the Slaughter of Small Ruminants and Monogastric Animals
John Edward Ellis
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Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed | The Path to Healing
Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed
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Daniel Joe | The Hope of Life
Daniel Joe
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