Saturday, July 27, 2024

DIACRITIQUE

Vhikas of Legend: Fiction by Charles Nhamo Rupare

They came in the night like those famed American...

Omobola Osamor: I Chose You

Cloaked in water. Bathed in blood. Dark and warm was our...

The Sight of their Horns: A Short Story by Abenea Ndago

Before Neighbour arrives with an angry breath and shouts...

Burma Boys and Strange Wars

"No European writer could have written 'Things Fall Apart,'...

Reflections: On Thando Mgqolozana’s Hear me Alone

Reflections: on Thando Mgqolozana’s Hear me Alone Jacana Media, 2011,...

A Game for Heroes…If You Believe the Hype

'You can do a lot with hype. You can...

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

Ali Znaidi is a widely anthologised writer. A Tunisian...

I Write Because I Care For People – Uzodinma Iweala

UZODINMA Iweala is the son of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, managing...

Abigail George: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer

I don’t want to be cool and for a long time I was experimenting with different voices in my writing. It took me a long time to realise I just had to be myself, comfortable with who I was. I don’t want to be popular. I don’t know how to be cool...

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

Three Poems: By Obemata

Self Portrait No matter how long I look at my portrait, how...

My Brother, From Another Woman: Poetry by Levi Cheruo Cheptora

MY BROTHER, FROM ANOTHER WOMAN I saw him again today Heaving...

A Bridge Passing Under Many Waters: Poems by Ololade Adewuyi

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

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Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

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

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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...

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

She can’t sleep. It must be the worry, seasoned...

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

This is what happens to my tears and the...

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

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