Saturday, July 27, 2024

DIACRITIQUE

The Knife London Gave Me: A Short Story by Abenea Ndago

Sanaipei is in America reading about insurance companies. Rabindranath...

Peace Mbengei: Confessions of a Contrite Spirit

Mbotu, your name still lights a furnace in my...

Arrested Development: Fiction by Ciru Israel

He goes like:  Hey Beautiful! I go like:         Hi! Handsome. He...

Female Representation in Nigerian Literature: An Essay by Razinat Muhammed

NIGERIAN literature, beginning with pre-independence publications of Amos Tutuola's...

Impossible Death of Lance Spearman & African Film

Children of today do not know anything about the...

ANA Lagos: The Genesis of a Writers’ Association

ANA - National had been founded in 1981 by...

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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...

H.R. ole Kulet: Education Should Strengthen the Bonds Created by Culture

Henry ole Kulet grew up in a village called...

Images that Linger, Words that Bite

  And now the horn may paw the air, Howling goodbye. -...

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

A Street Hawker: Poems by Tope Akeredolu

A STREET HAWKER That black tray that balances on her...

A Short Black Poem: Poetry by Cletus Nelson Nwadike

A Short Black Poem 1 When I die I want to be...

Bloodbath: Poems by Eric Atie

BLOODBATH For each thought of you That crosses my mind I will...

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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...

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...

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

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