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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
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Wednesday, September 18, 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
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...
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
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for S.O. You still listen to the same Ohangla music...
Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
‘He who rides the sea of the Nile must...
Ọ̀ṣúnrèmí Akérédolú | Polygamy and Parkinson’s Disease
July 31, 2024
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It was a very cold February day in Cambridge,...
Michelle Chepchumba: When Your Life Means Nothing
July 31, 2021
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It is past midnight. Maybe 1:00 am, maybe 2:00....
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....
Wayne McCray | No Rest for the Wicked
Fiction
Wayne McCray
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Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu
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PLAY
Interview with James Murua, Founder of JamesMurua.com
March 28, 2016
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Webmasters, bloggers and editors of literary websites are usually...
I Write Because I Care For People – Uzodinma Iweala
January 10, 2008
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UZODINMA Iweala is the son of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, managing...
Anezi Okoro: Celebrating the Master Story Teller in Enugu
August 22, 2016
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Enugu had not quite witnessed a literary event of...
Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
A PLAY PERSONS: OLAOHA, OBINNE, IKEDIKE, NWELUMMA, ANIMOKE, EZEMMUO, VILLAGERS. I Night...
Abigail George | A Poem
April 30, 2024
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Take this shrapnel and make a rose garden out...
Portraits the Artist Showed Us: Poetry by Anthony Okpunor
August 30, 2018
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…life imitates art Lana Del Rey PORTRAITS THE ARTIST SHOWED US he...
Friends: Poems by Olubukola Kwegan
June 16, 2005
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Escape I would dream about Escaping... BREATH it was far away from...
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
Memorials: Poems by Adeola Ikuomola
Poetry
Adeola Ikuomola
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Bloody Civilians: A Review of Debayo Adelaja-Olowo-Ake’s ‘Combat Zulu’
Essays & Reviews
Kole Ade-Odutola
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Wole Soyinka, Igbo Cyber-Discourse, and the Myth of the Good Yoruba
Essays & Reviews
Pius Adesanmi
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LAST MONTH...
Daniel Joe | The Hope of Life
Daniel Joe
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“Literature Can Catalyze Transformation in Society”: A Conversation with Francis Egbokhare
Tolu Akinwole
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Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe | Icarusting
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe
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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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Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza | Penance
Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza
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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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Mark Kennedy Nsereko | The White Women of Ben Kiwanuka Street
Mark Kennedy Nsereko
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Mayuyuka Kaunda | Blink
Mayuyuka Kaunda
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