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AFRICAN WRITER
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Saturday, July 27, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
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Fiction
Adewuyi Taiwo | This Country Eats Dreams
Adewuyi Taiwo
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Fiction
Hanna Haile | The Ancient on Your Tongue
Hanna Haile
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DIACRITIQUE
Knots: Fiction by Abenea Ndago
April 24, 2016
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P.O. Box Nairobi. Hey Joy, Are you still in New York...
Paul O. Anozie: To the Desert Lily; A Tribute
April 30, 2022
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It's all lonely and silent here, Aunt Edna. I'm...
The Sight of their Horns: A Short Story by Abenea Ndago
August 8, 2017
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Before Neighbour arrives with an angry breath and shouts...
Tolu Akinwole | Death “Bi Yi” Proud, Or Questions about Nollywood’s Portrayal of Social Tragedy
The title of this essay, “Death Bi Yi Proud,”...
A Review of Sanya Osha’s ‘Dust, Spittle and Wind’
February 1, 2013
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I was talking to Katleho Shoro from the Anthropology...
Talibés: les Enfants du Sénégal | A Creative Essay by John Edward Ellis
November 30, 2022
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Prologue The boy drags the goat through the alley, over...
A Review of Chigozie Anuli Mbadugha’s ‘Beyond the Trial’
January 4, 2016
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Title of Book: Beyond the Trial Author: Chigozie Anuli Mbadugha Publisher:...
Abigail George | The Entrance of Humanity into History
Fiction
Abigail George
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Uchechukwu J. Oputa | The Fifth Stage
Fiction
Uchechukwu J. Oputa
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John Ebute | Penance
Fiction
John Ebute
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PLAY
Ogaga Ifowodo: Slipping a Stone in the Sling of Prose and Poetry
January 19, 2016
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The name Ogaga Ifowodo, PhD., is familiar to many,...
Shadreck Chikoti: Speculative fiction is wide in its scope
May 6, 2018
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Shadreck Chikoti is passionate about the development of writing...
The Quintessence of Soyinkaism: By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
August 24, 2009
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The presentation of the book Journeys Around and with...
Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!
…tying the knot of Nigerian unity Characters ManWoman Performance Note There is a...
If You Will: Poems by Unoma Nguemo Azuah
May 6, 2007
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Boulders of Ice I lean on clasping boulders of Ice To...
When A Flower Journeys: Poems by Wazani Adamu Ijarafu
May 13, 2018
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WHEN A FLOWER JOURNEYS I would not have told you That...
Prophecy of Pain: Poetry by Kabu Okai-Davies
November 19, 2014
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Prophecy of Pain The traditions of yesterday are transforming to...
LAST MONTH ...
Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre
May 31, 2024
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IDANRE Woman you are sad!‘Tis the same with me.—Ralph Armattoe. I.My...
Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go
May 31, 2024
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It’s so cold. My nostrils are clogged. My cheeks...
Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand
May 31, 2024
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I am Tafadzwa. When I left Harare last month...
Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires
FINAL BANQUET OF DESIRES It is prison culture to give...
Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation
May 31, 2024
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Sista mi, how you naw? It has been...
Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings
May 31, 2024
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She can’t sleep. It must be the worry, seasoned...
Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears
May 31, 2024
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This is what happens to my tears and the...
RANDOM FLASHBACK
Abigail George | The Mental Hospital
Poetry
Abigail George
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Olowonjoyin Muhammed: Hypoxia — I
Poetry
Olowonjoyin Muhammed
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Cynicism Against Women Writers in Kenya is a ‘Single Story Catastrophe’
Essays & Reviews
Alexander K. Opicho
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