Saturday, July 27, 2024

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Cow and Chicken: Fiction by Mercy Eni Wandera

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My older step brother, Pat, was a charismatic deviant...

Pilate’s Hands: A Short Story by Ahmed Maiwada

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Every Friday, when the sun folded the shadows directly...

The President: Fiction by Vincent de Paul

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It has been thirty years since nuclear energy was...

Just Flow!

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The popular jingle "If it is not Panadol it...

The Writer and the Global Frontier

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Looking back, it is sometimes difficult to believe that...

Restless Journeys and Horsemen – A Review by Ikhide R. Ikheloa

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The Horsemen and other poems 73 pp Africa World Press,...

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Chinedu Ogoke: The West is the Giver and Taker of Literary Life

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                              --------------------------------------------------------------- When we talked in September 2003, after the...

Recalling the Iconic Exit of Chinua Achebe

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Chinua Achebe died at exactly 11:51pm (US time). That...

Wesley Macheso: Fiction is greater than the reality it mirrors

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

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

My Vision: Poetry by Adeola Ikuomola

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MY VISION Her eyes are twin swords cutting the dark cords off my...

A Bridge Passing Under Many Waters: Poems by Ololade Adewuyi

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FROM OLUMO ROCK a brown thread stretches far far beyond the...

A Rose Not Seen: Poems by Emuobome Jemikalajah

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A ROSE NOT SEEN (For Eliana) When in bloom you blossom, And...

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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...

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

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

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   Sista mi, how you naw? It has been...

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

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