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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
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African Literature, Writers and Ideas
Monday, September 1, 2025
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
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Abigail George | Longing
Abigail George
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Poetry
Deji Bejide | Three Ghosts Walk into a Bar
Deji Bejide
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Abiodun Salako | Benue in The Mouth of God
Poetry
Abiodun Salako
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Benue in The Mouth of God after 151 lost angels at dawn, while having breakfast, i watch the newslike someone watches...
Philip Chijioke Abonyi | Three Poems
Poetry
Philip Chijioke Abonyi
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To Stay Bald Before Self-harm Some images are orifices that compel usto unknown nooks.There are many terraces in my torso,each...
H.E. Ross | The Foolishness of Men
Poetry
H.E. Ross
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The Foolishness of Men The Cut Spray sparkles flyingThe man picked the conch shellfrom the bilgeHe let a sweet and sour...
Fiction
Utonwa Bekee | The Sound of Her Slippers
In Block C of a hostel that had once been a seminary before the government repurposed it into a federal university...
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu | A Morning in the Life of a Dad
The silence is loud this morning. It screeches. Howls like a wounded animal. I toss and turn, pulling and pushing everything...
Poetry
Victor Osemeka | Talks of War
People
Rory Kilalea: There is a growing lack of respect for kindness
Essays & Reviews
We Are Travellers in Time: A Review of Mohammed Salihu’s ‘Voices from the Soil’
In Voices from the Soil, the poet Mohammed Salihu reminds us to acknowledge the inevitability of the pain and ache we...
Essays & Reviews
Masculine Gaze and Dystopia in Nthikeng Mohlele’s ‘Breasts, etc.’
Nthikeng Mohlele's latest novel, Breasts, etc. offers a profound expression of terror and delight. The savouring of the pleasures of femininity...
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Essays & Reviews
Weep Not World: A Literary Tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Poetry
Salama Wainaina | The Syntax of Haunting
Fiction
Lena Anyuolo | Mariposa and the Witch
Fiction
M.P. Armana | The Whirlwind
Poetry
Azaiouris Y. Zeon | The History of Waterfalls
Non-Fiction
Lawrence Winkler | Wonder Where the Lions Are
Fiction
Khosa J.K. Chambalo | The Elder’s Warning
Poetry
DJ Benhaim | The Begotten Lens
Fiction
Babátúndé Fágbàyíbọ́ | Neco-Trial
Fiction
Sandra Chimezie | The Thing Between Us