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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
AFRICAN WRITER
Celebrating 20 Years.
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FICTION
Kiraka D. Mugatsia | Still Waters
Fiction
Kiraka D. Mugatsia
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The hill was swathed with green foliage from the towering Eucalyptus, the drooping Mexican Pine, Omuyeye, and the Cypress,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Fiction
Mike Paterson-Jones | The Scar
It started in a small bare cement-walled room somewhere in the bowels of the city police station. There were two of them. The room had no ceiling, just bare rafters and I was hanging...
Mike Paterson-Jones
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POETRY
Abigail George | Gardens of the Sun
Marial Awendit | The Inquisition
Josiane Kouagheu | dreams to bury
LAST MONTH...
Sosy Imafidon | Red Breath
Poetry
Sosy Imafidon
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Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
Non Fiction
Lawrence Winkler
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Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu
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Chimezie Okoro | Heat of the Afternoon Sun
Fiction
Chimezie Okoro
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Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
Plays
Kosoluchi Agboanike
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Justin Demmitt | Hold my hand
Poetry
Justin Demmitt
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Wayne McCray | No Rest for the Wicked
Fiction
Wayne McCray
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Shannon Kenny | The Vigil – a bedtime story
Fiction
Shannon Kenny
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Maik Nwosu
The Writer and the Global Frontier
Essays & Reviews
Maik Nwosu
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Chasing After Shadows: A Review of Maik Nwosu’s ‘Alpha Song’
Essays & Reviews
Chuks Oluigbo
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Something Tells Me I Should Run: Two Poems by Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Poetry
Girl, Blue Eyes, Boy: Fiction by Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Fiction
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Obiwu Iwuanyanwu
In Praise of Chimamanda Adichie’s 2007 Orange Prize
Essays & Reviews
He Was the Cobra (For Michael Jackson, 1958-2009)
Poetry