Saturday, July 27, 2024

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Man Dreaming of Being Found: Short fiction by Abigail George

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He was just a man. He was just a...

Sermons and Steel: Fiction by Femi Eromosele

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My hand comes down in one swift motion, and...

Ola W. Halim: Weekend

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"What?!" That was all Eki could say. Her bag fell...

Burma Boys and Strange Wars

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"No European writer could have written 'Things Fall Apart,'...

Writers Extending Literary Frontiers

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Tanure Ojaide’s recent designation of the poets of this...

Sacred Suicide: Re-Reading Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman Forty Years After

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Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka is...

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Younger Nigerian Writers Have Better Chances Than We Had – Helon Habila

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Younger Nigerian writers have better chances than we had ...

Reading Culture and the Government in Kenya: A Publisher’s View

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Stakeholders in the book industry are agreed that Kenya...

Good Night, Nike Adesuyi: So Long a Night!

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CYCLES (For Nosa) Days come, Days go, Each writes a distinct Paragraph in the...

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

Jolademi: Poems by Lola Shoneyin

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Jolademi He creeps into my bedroom when the night is most...

The Hybrid | Poems

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habitat no longer civilian.windswept aftermath slappedover dry bone. ring of...

The One Thing I’d rather be: Poems by May Livere

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The One Thing I’d rather be If there was one...

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Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

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

Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

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

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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