Saturday, July 27, 2024

DIACRITIQUE

The Woman in the Photograph: Short fiction by Abigail George

She had never met anyone called Siegfried before. Wondered...

Anthony Madukwe: Your Mind Is Doing What It Does

You met him on a Tuesday, in that restaurant...

Jasmine: Fiction by Sandra A. Mushi

She couldn’t keep her eyes awake though she felt...

Mourning Gunter Wilhelm Grass, Author of ‘The Tin Drum’

I have been reading The Tin Drum since December...

The Niger Delta and the Lost Promise of Outrage

Once upon a time in the Niger Delta, the...

The Best Story: An Essay by Seotsa ‘Soh’ Manyeli

They say our lives are completed and modeled by...

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Abigail George: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer

I don’t want to be cool and for a long time I was experimenting with different voices in my writing. It took me a long time to realise I just had to be myself, comfortable with who I was. I don’t want to be popular. I don’t know how to be cool...

My Book Is A Product Of Frustration – Odili Ujubuonu

Odili Ujubuonu, winner of this year's ANA/JACARANDA Prize for...

Ikeogu Oke: Meaning and Felicity of Expression in Perfect Fusion

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

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

…tying the knot of Nigerian unity Characters ManWoman Performance Note  There is a...

Adeniran, Joseph: A wall and a classroom of black students

A wall and a classroom of black students: to this...

Ugwu Erochukwu Shedrach: Candlelight

“The snake takes pride— because it knows where its...

Past Perfect: Poems by Dele Afolabi

A BIDA SATURDAY The sun is always there, With a fierceness...

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Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

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

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

   Sista mi, how you naw? It has been...

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

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

Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

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

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