A man at the start of his life wants...

Ululations ring around her.  Dancers dressed in colourful khanga dance to...

I Sonto liked the newness in his veins because it...

Something interesting happened in America this year. Harriet Tubman...

A condition that an African writer should conform to canons of European languages when writing is a vice which Ngugi has described as canonicity. Beyond this an African and Kenyan youth both in freedom and in detention or graduate or not can still write. Superbly write. The only Kilimanjaro they are to climb is mastery of their respective mother tongues and indigenous languages...

Zimbabwe’s writers have lately being taking me by the...

My muse is like the shell to its tortoise, we go everywhere together. But she is more active while I am in Nigeria...

Uche Peter Umez interviews Ikeogu Oke, a writer, poet and journalist....

Tebogo and the Epithalamion (2009), the latest in the...

(i) FIRST INK Manual labourer writ large Forever tilling page, Sculpting for...

SOMETHING TELLS ME I SHOULD RUN To you. To the fire...

CLAN KIND: An Ode to Ufuma of old I I beheld...

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

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

I am Tafadzwa. When I left Harare last month...

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

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

FINAL BANQUET OF DESIRES It is prison culture to give...