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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
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Saturday, July 27, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
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Fiction
Abigail George | The Entrance of Humanity into History
Abigail George
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Fiction
Adewuyi Taiwo | This Country Eats Dreams
Adewuyi Taiwo
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DIACRITIQUE
The Knife London Gave Me: A Short Story by Abenea Ndago
July 28, 2015
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Sanaipei is in America reading about insurance companies. Rabindranath...
Billy K. Boruett: Curtain Call
August 31, 2020
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“Not too far from where I live there’s a...
Diary of an Octogenarian: Fiction by Olayinka Oyegbile
March 28, 2016
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At eighty five and at the twilight of my...
Tolu Akinwole | Death “Bi Yi” Proud, Or Questions about Nollywood’s Portrayal of Social Tragedy
The title of this essay, “Death Bi Yi Proud,”...
Not All Writers Can Be Good and Popular
January 5, 2015
4
Let me start by appreciating Professor Austen Bukenya’s stand...
Waste Not Your Tears, by Violet Kala: A Review
June 27, 2016
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Title: Waste Not Your Tears Author: Violet Kala Reviewer: Levi Cheruo...
To Hair is Human, to Forgive is Design
November 30, 2018
21
I hate having to go to the hair salon....
John Ebute | Penance
Fiction
John Ebute
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Hanna Haile | The Ancient on Your Tongue
Fiction
Hanna Haile
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Uchechukwu J. Oputa | The Fifth Stage
Fiction
Uchechukwu J. Oputa
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PLAY
Interview with Gaamangwe Joy Mogami, Founder of AfricainDialogue.com
March 4, 2017
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Webmasters, bloggers and editors of literary websites are usually...
Ikhide Ikheloa: Analog Origins, Digital Destinations
March 2, 2014
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Sola Osofisan interviews Ikhide Ikheloa, a book interrogator, blogger...
Uwem Akpan: On Bullets, Bestsellers and Bedbugs
April 30, 2022
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Uwem Akpan In conversation with Sola Osofisan. In 2008, Uwem...
Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!
…tying the knot of Nigerian unity Characters ManWoman Performance Note There is a...
Under the Canopy: Poems by Tolu Akinwole
May 6, 2014
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UNDER THE CANOPY Come here and let us laugh The benign...
Requiem for Favour: A Poem by Nnaemeka Oruh
October 15, 2015
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Requiem for Favour No requiem for you Your singlehood was a...
Abigail George: Offering
July 31, 2019
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Once I called you home. Once you called /...
LAST MONTH ...
Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre
May 31, 2024
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IDANRE Woman you are sad!‘Tis the same with me.—Ralph Armattoe. I.My...
Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings
May 31, 2024
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She can’t sleep. It must be the worry, seasoned...
Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires
May 31, 2024
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FINAL BANQUET OF DESIRES It is prison culture to give...
Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go
It’s so cold. My nostrils are clogged. My cheeks...
Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation
May 31, 2024
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Sista mi, how you naw? It has been...
Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears
May 31, 2024
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This is what happens to my tears and the...
Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand
May 31, 2024
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I am Tafadzwa. When I left Harare last month...
RANDOM FLASHBACK
A Review of Lola Shoneyin’s For The Love of Flight
Essays & Reviews
Toni Kan Onwordi
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Song of a Riverbird…A Review
Essays & Reviews
Chielozona Eze
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Riak Marial Riak | Weird things becoming memories
Poetry
Riak Marial Riak
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