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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
Thursday, September 12, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
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Poetry
Sosy Imafidon | Red Breath
Sosy Imafidon
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Poetry
Justin Demmitt | Hold my hand
Justin Demmitt
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CREATIVE NONFICTION
An Ant hefting her Penance: Non-fiction by Aremu Adams Adebisi
November 19, 2017
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I watched intensely as an ant was hefting her...
Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
August 31, 2024
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‘He who rides the sea of the Nile must...
How to Dispose of Good Shoes in Africa: Non-fiction by Ebuka Prince Okoroafor
November 19, 2017
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The shoes on my feet have seen three generations...
Sybil Fekurumoh | Tomorrow For My Worth, Today For Children
April 29, 2023
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The audience is witnessing a moment in a support...
Ọ̀ṣúnrèmí Akérédolú | Polygamy and Parkinson’s Disease
July 31, 2024
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It was a very cold February day in Cambridge,...
Death of a Patriot: Creative Non-Fiction by A. Igoni Barrett
May 16, 2007
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Make you no go anywhere/Jus’ e wait dere make...
Shannon Kenny | The Vigil – a bedtime story
Fiction
Shannon Kenny
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Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu
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Chimezie Okoro | Heat of the Afternoon Sun
Fiction
Chimezie Okoro
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PLAY
Reading Culture and the Government in Kenya: A Publisher’s View
June 5, 2017
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Stakeholders in the book industry are agreed that Kenya...
Sanya Osha: Doing Violence to the Idea of the Novel
September 16, 2013
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Sola Osofisan interviews poet, novelist and philosopher Sanya Osha,...
Awards Do Not Make Good Writers – Chris Abani
May 21, 2007
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Writers, at one point or the other, have had...
Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
A PLAY PERSONS: OLAOHA, OBINNE, IKEDIKE, NWELUMMA, ANIMOKE, EZEMMUO, VILLAGERS. I Night...
Zenas Ubere: News at Nine
March 31, 2019
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News at Nine What the news said: A little boy was...
Boomerang: Poetry by Fatsani Chione
January 30, 2019
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BOOMERANG (HERE…) Spinning in circles No more than merry-go-round-and-round. Here, you left...
When My Lips Part: Two Poems by Atuhairwe Agrace Mugizi
June 5, 2017
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WHEN MY LIPS PART I speak for the girl who longs...
Fiction
Wayne McCray | No Rest for the Wicked
Wayne McCray
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Fiction
Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Andrea Zanin
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RANDOM FLASHBACK
The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature and the Nigerian Love of Exclusion
Essays & Reviews
Chielozona Eze
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The Elongated Ballad of Gay Thomas: A Poem by Richard Anyah
Poetry
Richard Anyah
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Nengi Ilagha: Words are the instruments of our warfare in the spirit, as in the flesh
People
Nduka Otiono
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LAST MONTH...
The Sight of the Sound: Instructions for the Slaughter of Small Ruminants and Monogastric Animals
John Edward Ellis
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Mark Kennedy Nsereko | The White Women of Ben Kiwanuka Street
Mark Kennedy Nsereko
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Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza | Penance
Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza
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“Literature Can Catalyze Transformation in Society”: A Conversation with Francis Egbokhare
Tolu Akinwole
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Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed | The Path to Healing
Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed
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Taiwo Akinyemi | The First Night
Taiwo Akinyemi
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Mayuyuka Kaunda | Blink
Mayuyuka Kaunda
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Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe | Icarusting
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe
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Daniel Joe | The Hope of Life
Daniel Joe
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