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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
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Saturday, September 14, 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
Sybil Fekurumoh | Tomorrow For My Worth, Today For Children
April 29, 2023
4
The audience is witnessing a moment in a support...
Ritah Tumushabe | Sacred Threads: A Personal Journey of Faith and Loss
July 31, 2023
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Today, I have decided to retire my rosary. This...
Rumbie Mugadza | No!
April 29, 2023
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“No” And The Dragon That Could Not Be Slain Your...
Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
‘He who rides the sea of the Nile must...
Prince Ihè | Here, We Sing A Sad Song
December 30, 2023
1
"We only live once. We only die once. How...
Lips are Dark for a Reason: Non-fiction by Aremu Adams Adebisi
November 19, 2017
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My lips are dark. Pitch-dark. Black-charcoal dark. Moonless-night dark....
Ọ̀ṣúnrèmí Akérédolú | Polygamy and Parkinson’s Disease
July 31, 2024
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It was a very cold February day in Cambridge,...
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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Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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PLAY
“My repression is as legitimate as your freedom”: A Conversation with Yẹ́misí Aríbisálà
February 20, 2017
1
Yẹ́misí Aríbisálà, formerly Yẹ́misí Ogbe, is a food memoirist...
The Mystique of Maxim
December 22, 2020
3
(for Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Boroja I, Obi of Ikate,...
Toni Kan Onwordi: Writing is profitable if you know how
November 22, 2015
1
Toni Kan Onwordi, better known simply as Toni Kan,...
Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
A PLAY PERSONS: OLAOHA, OBINNE, IKEDIKE, NWELUMMA, ANIMOKE, EZEMMUO, VILLAGERS. I Night...
Deshawn McKinney: Expiation and Taboo
January 31, 2021
2
Expiation from the neck ++++++ down +++ art basel he plans +++++++++tagged train...
Nwaoha Chibuzor Anthony: Moths and Flames
March 31, 2020
1
MOTHS AND FLAMES "Pain, betrayal, love and a teaspoon of...
Lovers in Gwoza: Two Poems by Titilayo Adeoye
October 4, 2016
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LOVERS IN GWOZA timidly shaking as legs find air from...
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
Mortal Thoughts: Poems by Sean Adetula
Poetry
Sean Adetula
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Michael Emmanuel: for a stranger whose scent we know
Poetry
Michael Emmanuel
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Bring The Daughters Home: A Poem by Kwabena Agyare Yeboah
Poetry
Kwabena Agyare Yeboah
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LAST MONTH...
“Literature Can Catalyze Transformation in Society”: A Conversation with Francis Egbokhare
Tolu Akinwole
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Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed | The Path to Healing
Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed
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Daniel Joe | The Hope of Life
Daniel Joe
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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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Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe | Icarusting
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe
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The Sight of the Sound: Instructions for the Slaughter of Small Ruminants and Monogastric Animals
John Edward Ellis
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Mayuyuka Kaunda | Blink
Mayuyuka Kaunda
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Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza | Penance
Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza
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