Saturday, July 27, 2024

DIACRITIQUE

Waiting for the End: Speculative Fiction by Wesley Macheso

Miko Mende was used to seeing people succumb to...

The Midnight Mistress: Flash Fiction by Tony Ogunlowo

This is rotten! I present my own late night radio...

A Premature Sunset: Fiction by Wafula p’Khisa

A few days before our village was attacked in...

Beyond Social Commitment, Meaning and Audience: Towards the Soyinkanisation of Nigerian Literature

Language is the greatest pitfall of the upcoming generation...

Lola Shoneyin’s Love of Flight: A Review by Obemata

For the Love of Flight, by Lola Shoneyin Cassava Republic...

A Review of Ben Ige’s The Teacher’s Blood

  Book: The Teacher's Blood Author: Ben Ige Reviewer: Wande Ijaluwoye The Teacher's...

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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...

Violet Barungi: I try to highlight social issues affecting women

1.    You began writing while still a student at...

Maik Nwosu: My Influences are a Collage of the Crossroads

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

DIGGING UP THE DREAMS The sky was a wearied shepherd...

Waiting Tables: Poems by Wesley Macheso

WAITING TABLES We sail across the ocean to sell smiles and...

Wedding Feast at Qana: Poems by Richard Ugbede Ali

Wedding Feast at Qana (Southern Lebanon) it was a marriage of...

LAST MONTH ...

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

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

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

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

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

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

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