Life and Times of Papa Jake Archives

African literature, writers and ideas, since 2004.

Poetry June 18, 2009 1

HOMAGE TO POWER These rolling cadences To our God-given magicians On a...

Poetry March 31, 2019 0

News at Nine What the news said: A little boy was...

Poetry August 31, 2019 0

LEAVING THEM BE In my story I want to write...

Fiction December 30, 2023 3

Their mothers died because they were menial workers of...

Essays & Reviews November 30, 2023 1

River Spirit is a recent historical novel by the award-winning...

Non-Fiction December 30, 2023 1

"We only live once. We only die once. How...

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