Saturday, July 27, 2024

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Philly Opere | Sayonara

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“I was raped.” She says flatly staring at her knees...

Mirror: Fiction by Ola W. Halim

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I. Dr Olu Ajasin went mad every morning he woke...

The Whispering Trees: A Short Story by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

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Strange how things are on the other side of...

Just Right: A Review of Keletso Mopai’s ‘If You Keep Digging’

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Title: If You Keep Digging Author: Keletso Mopai Publisher: Black Bird...

Sacred Suicide: Re-Reading Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman Forty Years After

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Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka is...

Rites of Passage: A Review of Wreaths for a Wayfarer

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The coldness of death, not death itself, breaks the...

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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...

Omoseye Bolaji: Writer with the Grassroots Touch

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Tebogo and the Epithalamion (2009), the latest in the...

Those Who Propound ‘African Literature’ Can’t Explain It – Helon Habila

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As a child growing up, Helon Habila’s father wanted...

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

Kisstory: Poetry by Ahmed Maiwada

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KISSTORY 1 Let our first kiss Be the last thing on our...

The Revolution Has No Tribe: Poems by Dike Chukwumerije

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THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE Do you not know that...

A Rose Not Seen: Poems by Emuobome Jemikalajah

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A ROSE NOT SEEN (For Eliana) When in bloom you blossom, And...

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Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

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

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

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

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

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

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

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

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