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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
Saturday, July 27, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
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Fiction
Abigail George | The Entrance of Humanity into History
Abigail George
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Fiction
Uchechukwu J. Oputa | The Fifth Stage
Uchechukwu J. Oputa
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DIACRITIQUE
Waiting for the End: Speculative Fiction by Wesley Macheso
March 31, 2017
5
Miko Mende was used to seeing people succumb to...
The Midnight Mistress: Flash Fiction by Tony Ogunlowo
September 5, 2017
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This is rotten! I present my own late night radio...
A Premature Sunset: Fiction by Wafula p’Khisa
July 30, 2018
2
A few days before our village was attacked in...
Tolu Akinwole | Death “Bi Yi” Proud, Or Questions about Nollywood’s Portrayal of Social Tragedy
The title of this essay, “Death Bi Yi Proud,”...
Beyond Social Commitment, Meaning and Audience: Towards the Soyinkanisation of Nigerian Literature
May 4, 2007
13
Language is the greatest pitfall of the upcoming generation...
Lola Shoneyin’s Love of Flight: A Review by Obemata
February 12, 2010
7
For the Love of Flight, by Lola Shoneyin Cassava Republic...
A Review of Ben Ige’s The Teacher’s Blood
October 1, 2014
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Book: The Teacher's Blood Author: Ben Ige Reviewer: Wande Ijaluwoye The Teacher's...
Adewuyi Taiwo | This Country Eats Dreams
Fiction
Adewuyi Taiwo
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John Ebute | Penance
Fiction
John Ebute
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Hanna Haile | The Ancient on Your Tongue
Fiction
Hanna Haile
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PLAY
Abigail George: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer
October 4, 2013
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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...
Violet Barungi: I try to highlight social issues affecting women
May 10, 2010
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1. You began writing while still a student at...
Maik Nwosu: My Influences are a Collage of the Crossroads
January 7, 2015
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Sola Osofisan interviews Maik Nwosu, poet, novelist, journalist and...
Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!
…tying the knot of Nigerian unity Characters ManWoman Performance Note There is a...
Digging up the Dreams: Poems by Adeola Ikuomola
August 21, 2010
3
DIGGING UP THE DREAMS The sky was a wearied shepherd...
Waiting Tables: Poems by Wesley Macheso
December 13, 2014
2
WAITING TABLES We sail across the ocean to sell smiles and...
Wedding Feast at Qana: Poems by Richard Ugbede Ali
October 14, 2009
1
Wedding Feast at Qana (Southern Lebanon) it was a marriage of...
LAST MONTH ...
Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go
May 31, 2024
3
It’s so cold. My nostrils are clogged. My cheeks...
Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings
May 31, 2024
0
She can’t sleep. It must be the worry, seasoned...
Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears
May 31, 2024
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This is what happens to my tears and the...
Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation
Sista mi, how you naw? It has been...
Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires
May 31, 2024
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FINAL BANQUET OF DESIRES It is prison culture to give...
Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre
May 31, 2024
10
IDANRE Woman you are sad!‘Tis the same with me.—Ralph Armattoe. I.My...
Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand
May 31, 2024
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I am Tafadzwa. When I left Harare last month...
RANDOM FLASHBACK
Abiodun Salako: In Memoriam
Poetry
Abiodun Salako
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An Unfamiliar Face: Fiction by Ifediba Zube
Fiction
Ifediba Zube
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Finding Solace: Poems by John Chizoba Vincent
Poetry
John Chizoba Vincent
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