Saturday, July 27, 2024

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Wesley Macheso: Where we live

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Son, this city has a mouth and it has...

Plangdi Neple: Birthday Blues

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Fareed's excitement at meeting the house demon had him...

Eyes That Cry: Fiction by Abenea Ndago

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I will remain silent in case Mama asks why...

Hopeless Hellhole… Or Not: A Review of Mary Harper’s ‘Getting Somalia Wrong?’

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Book Title: GETTING SOMALIA WRONG? FAITH, WAR AND HOPE...

Decolonizing Ngugi’s Mentality

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Like Sir Mick “Phillip” Jagger of the of the...

Restless Journeys and Horsemen – A Review by Ikhide R. Ikheloa

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The Horsemen and other poems 73 pp Africa World Press,...

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Recalling the Iconic Exit of Chinua Achebe

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Chinua Achebe died at exactly 11:51pm (US time). That...

Why I write in the dead of night – Ogaga Ifowodo

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Like most prominent writers, Ogaga Ifowodo started his writing...

A Paean to the Son of Idoto: My Thoughts about Christopher Okigbo

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I might as well admit it at the beginning:...

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

Solace Quest: Poems by Kunle Shittu

2
IS THIS A COUNTRY? Clumps of dust-covered ruins       so filthy Spreading stench...

Rebooting the System: Poems by Wesley Macheso

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Rebooting the System WARNING: Formatting will erase ALL data on this...

night fires at the wake: two poems by su’eddie vershima agema

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night fires at the wake (for our lost ones…and elvis...

LAST MONTH ...

Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

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

Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

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

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

3
It’s so cold. My nostrils are clogged. My cheeks...

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

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

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