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AFRICAN WRITER
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Thursday, September 19, 2024
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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
Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go
May 31, 2024
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It’s so cold. My nostrils are clogged. My cheeks...
The Sight of the Sound: Instructions for the Slaughter of Small Ruminants and Monogastric Animals
July 31, 2024
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The closed door notwithstanding, the proceedings bore audibly into...
Death of a Patriot: Creative Non-Fiction by A. Igoni Barrett
May 16, 2007
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Make you no go anywhere/Jus’ e wait dere make...
Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
‘He who rides the sea of the Nile must...
Rumbie Mugadza | No!
April 29, 2023
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“No” And The Dragon That Could Not Be Slain Your...
Dismas Okombo | Home
October 1, 2023
2
for S.O. You still listen to the same Ohangla music...
The Economy of Loss: Creative non-fiction by Dami Ajayi
September 11, 2009
2
There’s been a death in the family. You can...
Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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Chimezie Okoro | Heat of the Afternoon Sun
Fiction
Chimezie Okoro
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Wayne McCray | No Rest for the Wicked
Fiction
Wayne McCray
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PLAY
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...
Dike Chukwumerije: Relevant on Jealous Creative Writing Fronts
October 27, 2014
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Poet Saddiq Dzukogi interviews Dike Chukwumerije, one of the...
Victor Ehikhamenor: Confronting an Empty Canvas
September 10, 2013
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My muse is like the shell to its tortoise, we go everywhere together. But she is more active while I am in Nigeria...
Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
A PLAY PERSONS: OLAOHA, OBINNE, IKEDIKE, NWELUMMA, ANIMOKE, EZEMMUO, VILLAGERS. I Night...
Three Months of Courtship: Poems by Anele Mkhwananzi
September 8, 2012
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Three Months of Courtship Dashing heartwards, for spent emotions and...
The Path Taken: Poems by Dela Bobobee
June 17, 2007
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Africa Once a toddler, I was nurtured and intoxicated with pure...
Mayuyuka Kaunda | Blink
July 31, 2024
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BLINK I tasted sleep on your tonguehad it ended or...
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Lucy Mwelu
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Fiction
Shannon Kenny | The Vigil – a bedtime story
Shannon Kenny
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RANDOM FLASHBACK
Nails for Bread: Flash Fiction by Kenechukwu `Childless’ Obiezu
Fiction
Kenechukwu Childless Obiezu
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Nnedi Okorafor: I just have stories to tell…
People
Kola Tubosun
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Dalitsani Lucy Anselmo: It’s Still the Same World
Fiction
Dalitsani Lucy Anselmo
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LAST MONTH...
Taiwo Akinyemi | The First Night
Taiwo Akinyemi
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Mark Kennedy Nsereko | The White Women of Ben Kiwanuka Street
Mark Kennedy Nsereko
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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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Ọ̀ṣúnrèmí Akérédolú | Polygamy and Parkinson’s Disease
Ọ̀ṣúnrèmí Akérédolú
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Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe | Icarusting
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe
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Daniel Joe | The Hope of Life
Daniel Joe
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Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza | Penance
Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza
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