Saturday, July 27, 2024

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Mali Kambandu: Sympathies or Hopes

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“…where her rings usually are, there is a thin...

Crazy World: Fiction by Yiro Abari High

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The man had a colourfully embroidered drum of starched...

The Quelea: Fiction by Abenea Ndago

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With the return of the rain the leaves would...

The Royal Trial: By Mahmoud Mansi

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If the streets resemble the morals of people and...

Jailed in the Black Body: A Review of Caleb Azumah’s Open Water

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Caleb Azumah Nelson's recent novel Open Water (2021) explores...

The Role of Contemporary African Literature in Painting a True Image of Africa

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For years, more so during the colonial era, Africans...

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Saddiq M. Dzukogi: Conceiving, Incubating & Delivering Poetry

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Wale Owoade interviews Saddiq M. Dzukogi, poet and author...

Wesley Macheso: Fiction is greater than the reality it mirrors

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Wesley Macheso teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Mzuzu...

Chimamanda All Over

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In my book Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the quintessential...

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

Abigail George: A Girl who had a Yearning for Experience

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A GIRL WHO HAD A YEARNING FOR EXPERIENCE When we...

Death Kit: Experimental Haiku by Abigail George

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  Haiku for Jean Rhys The photograph in-the-red-box. Like the juices of...

Olowonjoyin Muhammed: Hypoxia — I

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HYPOXIA — I when I say I’m hypoxic, you can...

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Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

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

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

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

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

   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...

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

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