Saturday, July 27, 2024

DIACRITIQUE

The Trash-Can Pilgrims: Fiction by Chika Unigwe

(An excerpt) The people of Uwani had always emptied their...

Patrick Makondo | Dead Cow Tails

As he started for the medicine man's village, Bonyo...

Waiting For My Shot at the Big Time: Fiction by Abigail George

I am the ultimate comeback kid. I have made...

The Hidden Life of the African Feminist

  Gethsemane was not monster-proofed as is the perspective of...

Forget this Place of Weeping: Experimental Prose by Abigail George

Pale feminist you. Bliss in a vintage dress. Under...

Soundbender: Music, Mathematics, and Poetry Fused

Artiste: Beautiful Nubia Album: Soundbender Record label: ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Music and Publishing Number...

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Abigail George: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer

I don’t want to be cool and for a long time I was experimenting with different voices in my writing. It took me a long time to realise I just had to be myself, comfortable with who I was. I don’t want to be popular. I don’t know how to be cool...

Iquo Eke: Deconstructing Preconceived Notions – An Interview

"Poetry for me is release…a means to deconstructing preconceived...

Uwem Akpan: On Bullets, Bestsellers and Bedbugs

Uwem Akpan In conversation with Sola Osofisan. In 2008, Uwem...

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

A Community of Strangers: Poems by Abayomi Ogunniyi

A COMMUNITY OF STRANGERS I am sent to serve in...

Dare Tunmise: Dead Flowers

DEAD FLOWERS I'm a sad boy living in a sad...

A Walk In The Sky: Poems by Fr. Remi Okere

LAKE MICHIGAN You lighten me up As I watch you Dance with...

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Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

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

Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

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

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

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

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