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Eaton Jackson | The Docks

Poetry
I. BAY DOCK’S PRESENT SILHOUETTE She and I used to sit...
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Emmanuel Papa Quansah | Bring Me Yesterday

Poetry
BRING ME YESTERDAY just when the sun traded light with...
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Ernest Amayogbe | Our Home Is A Gurney

Poetry
OUR HOME IS A GURNEY our home is a gurney...
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Jedidiah Henaku-Budu | I Don’t Want A 9-5

Poetry
I DON'T WANT A 9-5 Warm golden light filters through...
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Samuel Hale | Obituary

Poetry
Obituary "And now who hereis not buried inanother person’s heart?” —...
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Adwoah Nyarkoa | They Eat the Bridge

Fiction
The mahogany door was heavy, carved from old-growth timber...
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Candy Neubert | immigrant

Poetry
immigrant You ask if I can live with you.Yes, if...
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DJ Benhaim | Krypton Fell from Grace & Landed Somewhere in the Ghetto

Poetry
Krypton Fell from Grace & Landed Somewhere in the...
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Jide Odetola | Fela Wan Bath

Non-Fiction
As a fully registered member of Fela Kuti’s implausible...
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Ugochukwu Anadị | Christ And My Lover

Plays
CHRIST AND MY LOVER SCENE ONE Chima’s bedroom. It is a...
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RANDOM CONVERSATIONS

Gender in African Literature Today: A Conversation with Asante Lucy Mtenje

Asante Lucy Mtenje is a Malawian academic, creative writer,...

Titilope Sonuga: I believe in truth-telling as a pathway to healing

Títílopẹ́ Sónúgà (she writes it as “Titilope Sonuga”) is...

Harry Garuba: In Praise of “the Thursday People”

Harry Garuba who passed in February 2020 was a...

Naipanoi Lepapa: I needed to be a poet to save myself…

Naipanoi Lepapa is a journalist and poet. Her evolving...

Rory Kilalea: There is a growing lack of respect for kindness

Luck has played an important part in my life,...

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún: Renaissance is Badly Needed in African Language Literature

36-year-old Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a poet, blogger, linguist and...

The Mystique of Maxim

(for Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Boroja I, Obi of Ikate,...

Nnedi Okorafor: I just have stories to tell…

Nnedi Okorafor is an important writer, period. She is...

Playing with Poetry: A Conversation with Tade Ipadeola

"I do think that our greatest investments should be...