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AFRICAN WRITER
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Thursday, September 19, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
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Justin Demmitt | Hold my hand
Justin Demmitt
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Poetry
Sosy Imafidon | Red Breath
Sosy Imafidon
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CREATIVE NONFICTION
Prince Ihè | Here, We Sing A Sad Song
December 30, 2023
1
"We only live once. We only die once. How...
Lips are Dark for a Reason: Non-fiction by Aremu Adams Adebisi
November 19, 2017
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My lips are dark. Pitch-dark. Black-charcoal dark. Moonless-night dark....
Rumbie Mugadza | No!
April 29, 2023
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“No” And The Dragon That Could Not Be Slain Your...
Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
‘He who rides the sea of the Nile must...
Ritah Tumushabe | Sacred Threads: A Personal Journey of Faith and Loss
July 31, 2023
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Today, I have decided to retire my rosary. This...
Dismas Okombo | Home
October 1, 2023
2
for S.O. You still listen to the same Ohangla music...
Ọ̀ṣúnrèmí Akérédolú | Polygamy and Parkinson’s Disease
July 31, 2024
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It was a very cold February day in Cambridge,...
Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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Wayne McCray | No Rest for the Wicked
Fiction
Wayne McCray
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Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu
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PLAY
Toni Kan Onwordi: Writing is profitable if you know how
November 22, 2015
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Toni Kan Onwordi, better known simply as Toni Kan,...
Violet Barungi: I try to highlight social issues affecting women
May 10, 2010
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1. You began writing while still a student at...
A Witness to these Times…The Akin Adesokan Interview
May 6, 2007
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His voice floats through the waves, slides smoothly into...
Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
A PLAY PERSONS: OLAOHA, OBINNE, IKEDIKE, NWELUMMA, ANIMOKE, EZEMMUO, VILLAGERS. I Night...
Paradise of Prisons: Poems by Adebayo Akinloye
October 28, 2007
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IN THE GLOOM the genesis of an undergrowth an offshoot out...
Who Am I? Poems by Baba Olutunde Olufemi
February 2, 2008
6
A Voice I Am Going To Send From the deep...
The Golden Man: A Poem by Alexander Nderitu
January 5, 2015
2
THE GOLDEN MAN (From the book The Moon is Made...
Fiction
Chimezie Okoro | Heat of the Afternoon Sun
Chimezie Okoro
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Fiction
Shannon Kenny | The Vigil – a bedtime story
Shannon Kenny
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RANDOM FLASHBACK
Nigeria: Past, Present and Future
Essays & Reviews
Imade Iyamu
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Home, Sour Home: Poems By Adebayo Akinloye
Poetry
Adebayo Akinloye
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Psam 23: Fiction by Edwin Madu
Fiction
Edwin Madu
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LAST MONTH...
Mark Kennedy Nsereko | The White Women of Ben Kiwanuka Street
Mark Kennedy Nsereko
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Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe | Icarusting
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe
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The Sight of the Sound: Instructions for the Slaughter of Small Ruminants and Monogastric Animals
John Edward Ellis
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Mayuyuka Kaunda | Blink
Mayuyuka Kaunda
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Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed | The Path to Healing
Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed
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“Literature Can Catalyze Transformation in Society”: A Conversation with Francis Egbokhare
Tolu Akinwole
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Taiwo Akinyemi | The First Night
Taiwo Akinyemi
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Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza | Penance
Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza
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Daniel Joe | The Hope of Life
Daniel Joe
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