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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
Thursday, October 24, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
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FICTION
Itseme Akede | I Cry Only At Night
Fiction
Itseme Akede
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I was never like the rest of them. Not even at the times I tried my hardest, and I...
Princewill Ibe | Isale Eko
Fiction
Princewill Ibe
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Dear Abdullah, How quickly time has passed! Days have morphed into weeks, weeks into months, and now years since the...
Felix Otieno | I Write This As If I Am Not African
Fiction
Felix Otieno
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This man Lewis called me on the twenty fifth asking if i would fight for him. The bedside phone...
Malkia Charlee | Tara Diddle
Fiction
Malkia Charlee
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“Easter, Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid—all absolute rubbish.” “How so?” “Consumerist gavage. Group presentation of our buttery wallets in obsessive...
Daniel Joe | Mummy’s Pet
Fiction
Daniel Joe
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One could begin with the small potholes that made his ass and scrotum hurt like hell, or the big...
Mike Paterson-Jones | The Scar
Fiction
Mike Paterson-Jones
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It started in a small bare cement-walled room somewhere in the bowels of the city police station. There were...
Fiction
Kiraka D. Mugatsia | Still Waters
The hill was swathed with green foliage from the towering Eucalyptus, the drooping Mexican Pine, Omuyeye, and the Cypress, with the colorful grevillea, Nandi Flame, and Msunzu adding some vibrancy. In between these colors...
Kiraka D. Mugatsia
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POETRY
Marial Awendit | The Inquisition
Josiane Kouagheu | dreams to bury
Abigail George | Gardens of the Sun
LAST MONTH...
Shannon Kenny | The Vigil – a bedtime story
Fiction
Shannon Kenny
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Sosy Imafidon | Red Breath
Poetry
Sosy Imafidon
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Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu
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Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
Non Fiction
Lawrence Winkler
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Justin Demmitt | Hold my hand
Poetry
Justin Demmitt
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Chimezie Okoro | Heat of the Afternoon Sun
Fiction
Chimezie Okoro
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Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
Plays
Kosoluchi Agboanike
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Wayne McCray | No Rest for the Wicked
Fiction
Wayne McCray
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Maik Nwosu
The Dogs of Sa’ra: A Short Story by Maik Nwosu
Fiction
Maik Nwosu
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Ballad of the Peace-Keeper: Poems by Maik Nwosu
Poetry
Maik Nwosu
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Bafana, the Boy Shepherd: Fiction by Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Fiction
Moonscape: A Poem by Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Poetry
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Obiwu Iwuanyanwu
Idzia Ahmad: A Meteor, a Vagrant Arab
People
In Praise of Chimamanda Adichie’s 2007 Orange Prize
Essays & Reviews