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REVIEW

2023 AKO Caine Prize

Features & Reviews

Is This, Finally, the Caine Year for Women?

PROSE

almajiri

Fiction

Aliyu Yakubu | Stolen Innocence

18 Min Read

smoke

Fiction

Omobola Osamor | Smoke

24 Min Read

POETRY

implosion

Popoola Ololade Aderemi | Where the Heart is

Popoola Ololade Aderemi

1 Min Read

elegy

Osieka Osinimu Alao | Anatomy of Elegy

Osieka Osinimu Alao

1 Min Read

palms

Sunday Wura Best | Bullets on Wheels

Sunday Wura Best

1 Min Read

warriors

Fiction

Lucy Mwelu | The Crawler Warrior

16 Min Read

drive

Fiction

Claude Hiol | We Need to Talk

12 Min Read

RECENTLY...

Watering

Eliongema Udofia | All this flower needs…

Eliongema Udofia

3 Min Read

rosary

Ritah Tumushabe | Sacred Threads: A Personal Journey of Faith and Loss

Ritah Tumushabe

12 Min Read

vulnerable moment

Osy Mizpah Unuevho | Gethsemane

Osy Mizpah Unuevho

2 Min Read

mother or matyr

Lethukukhanya Mzulwini | Mother or Martyr

Lethukukhanya Mzulwini

16 Min Read

Do you remember Marang?

Itu Komane: Do You Remember Marang?

12 Min Read

widow's happiness

Ugochukwu Anadị | A Widow’s Happiness Is Her Daughters

Ugochukwu Anadị

7 Min Read

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Fiction

The Masquerade: A Short Story by Ronnie Uzoigwe

July 11, 2005

Poetry

I Dreamt: Poetry by Ahmed Hussain

January 18, 2016

Poetry

Dambudzo Marechera: Experimental Haiku by Abigail George

April 2, 2018

People

Akeem Lasisi: Why I Perform My Poems

May 3, 2007

Poetry

Unrestricted Access: Poems by Nnorom Azuonye

July 11, 2005

Poetry

Why Were Umbrellas Created?: A Poem by Kay Bature

November 9, 2015

Poetry

Roasted Dreams: Poems by Oluwafemi Babasola

September 30, 2018

Poetry

An Ode to the Brothas: A Poem by Doreen Chimangah

February 2, 2008

Fiction

Munich Sheep in Winter: Short fiction by Abigail George

May 6, 2014

People

Ali Znaidi: A poem is a kind of selfie captured in words

May 30, 2016

Poetry

In A Den of Robbers: Poems by Mdika Nick Tembo

June 18, 2009

News

Stephen Derwent Partington on Rotimi Babatunde’s “Bombay’s Republic”

August 20, 2012

Fiction

Black Monday: Fiction by Tope James-Ade

October 31, 2014

People

“My repression is as legitimate as your freedom”: A Conversation with Yẹ́misí Aríbisálà

February 20, 2017

Poetry

If We Die Tonight: Poems by Nnaemeka Oruh

November 9, 2015