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REVIEW

2023 AKO Caine Prize

Features & Reviews

Is This, Finally, the Caine Year for Women?

PROSE

smoke

Fiction

Omobola Osamor | Smoke

24 Min Read

warriors

Fiction

Lucy Mwelu | The Crawler Warrior

16 Min Read

POETRY

palms

Sunday Wura Best | Bullets on Wheels

Sunday Wura Best

1 Min Read

implosion

Popoola Ololade Aderemi | Where the Heart is

Popoola Ololade Aderemi

1 Min Read

elegy

Osieka Osinimu Alao | Anatomy of Elegy

Osieka Osinimu Alao

1 Min Read

drive

Fiction

Claude Hiol | We Need to Talk

12 Min Read

almajiri

Fiction

Aliyu Yakubu | Stolen Innocence

18 Min Read

RECENTLY...

Watering

Eliongema Udofia | All this flower needs…

Eliongema Udofia

3 Min Read

Do you remember Marang?

Itu Komane: Do You Remember Marang?

12 Min Read

vulnerable moment

Osy Mizpah Unuevho | Gethsemane

Osy Mizpah Unuevho

2 Min Read

mother or matyr

Lethukukhanya Mzulwini | Mother or Martyr

Lethukukhanya Mzulwini

16 Min Read

rosary

Ritah Tumushabe | Sacred Threads: A Personal Journey of Faith and Loss

Ritah Tumushabe

12 Min Read

widow's happiness

Ugochukwu Anadị | A Widow’s Happiness Is Her Daughters

Ugochukwu Anadị

7 Min Read

RANDOM FLASHBACK...

Fiction

Telling Mother: A Short Story by Nan Owo

July 2, 2007

Poetry

My Name: Poetry by Joshua Omotayo Aire

January 27, 2018

Features & Reviews

Female Representation in Nigerian Literature: An Essay by Razinat Muhammed

May 21, 2007

Poetry

Abigail George: Ode to Therapy

July 31, 2021

Fiction

The Tailor of Adabraka Street: Fiction by Kabu Okai-Davies

October 15, 2015

People

Harry Garuba: In Praise of “the Thursday People”

November 30, 2020

People

Gender in African Literature Today: A Conversation with Asante Lucy Mtenje

July 31, 2020

Fiction

It Was a Good Day: Fiction by Toyosi Elizabeth Temitope

July 6, 2015

Poetry

The Rainbow is a Peninsula: Poems by Adeola Ikuomola

November 19, 2017

Poetry

how to babysit a god: Poems by muna chinedu

October 1, 2018

Poetry

After Coming Out After A Long Depression: Poetry by Abigail George

July 30, 2018

Poetry

Kisstory: Poetry by Ahmed Maiwada

March 24, 2011

Fiction

Slavery Stole my Identity: Fiction by Brian Moyo

November 30, 2014

Poetry

The Promise: Poems by Eyitemi Egwuenu

November 14, 2005

Fiction

Sketches of Shoots from Dark Water: Fiction by Abigail George

September 5, 2017

Features & Reviews

Reconstructing Africa: Can Writers Take Sides in Ideological Conflicts?

January 18, 2016