Saturday, July 27, 2024

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Policing the Police: An Excerpt by Segun Akinyode

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 The million thoughts gradually dissolved into one  hard nut knocking...

The Subversive Immanence of the African Underwear 2020: Fiction by Jorim Alosa

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"Why else have brutality and depravity been the core...

Dalitsani Lucy Anselmo: It’s Still the Same World

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It hurts. I want to scream but when I...

Jailed in the Black Body: A Review of Caleb Azumah’s Open Water

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Caleb Azumah Nelson's recent novel Open Water (2021) explores...

Carlos Izzia Ahmad: The Man And His Poetry – An Essay by Omale Allen Abdul-Jabbar

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Let me commence this stuff with a question: What...

A Peculiar Blanket: By Seotsa “Soh” Manyeli

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It is peculiar. It is a string of stars...

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The Quintessence of Soyinkaism: By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

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The presentation of the book Journeys Around and with...

Ali Znaidi: A poem is a kind of selfie captured in words

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Ali Znaidi is a widely anthologised writer. A Tunisian...

Chimamanda All Over

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In my book Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the quintessential...

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

Marial Awendit: The Song of Leaks and Calabashes

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THE SONG OF LEAKS AND CALABASHES I leak away in...

Close to Nature: Poems by Nnamdi Ben Nneji

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Close to Nature The sun shines through a mist, a golden...

Sea Creatures: Poems by Abigail George

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Sea Creatures (A poem in experimental haiku) Milk is a vision...

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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...

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...

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...

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

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

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

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