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Revelations: Fiction by Caiphas Brewsters Soyapi

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He joined us from a primary school from the...

A Memory is an Expensive Thing: Fiction by Adams Adeosun

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You are on a date with the girl you...

Abigail George: Hibiscus

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Who listens to smoke? Breath pumps through me. You’re...

Silence of the Lambs: An Essay by Seotsa ‘Soh’ Manyeli

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It is a tunnel of long ends both in...

Spill the wine, swallow those pills, have that love affair

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So, mother, like Johannesburg, you cut me in deep,...

Writer’s Lamentation

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All prayers said and psalms read, spirits of long...

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Anezi Okoro: Celebrating the Master Story Teller in Enugu

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Enugu had not quite witnessed a literary event of...

I’m doing things that appeal to me – Interview with Hyacinth Obunseh

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Award winning author, publisher and consultant, Hyacinth Obunseh, who...

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

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

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

Pond: Four Poems by Abigail George

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POND (for my sister, Ambronese) You know it was an evening...

Half-Grown Moon: Poetry by Emmanuel Isuku

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HALF-GROWN MOON Half-grown moon, shaped like cut calabash where’s your other half? Did...

Jide Badmus: Ori

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ORI Man’s history is a shadow of mysteries. Truth lies In the...

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Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

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

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

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

Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

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

Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

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