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Since 2004
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
African Writer
Since 2004
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Fiction
J.L. Oputa | The Little Golden Pockets
Poetry
Solape Adetutu Adeyemi | The Baobab Doesn’t Punch a Clock
Poetry
Newpanther | Totally
Fiction
Ọláolúwa Òní | Kuli Kuli
Fiction
Gabriele Micozzi | Distinguishing Features
Plays
Olu Familoni | Money Baby
Poetry
Victor Ihechiluru Unachukwu | The Ghost of War
Poetry
Abigail George | The Child of Mulatto Parents
Plays
Olaseni Kehinde Precious | When The Engine Goes Silent
Poetry
Omondi | If Einstein Is Right
Last Month...
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
Namwali Serpell: Planting Seeds in a Garden of Intention
November 19, 2017
Namwali Serpell. Born in Lusaka, Zambia. The ethereal forms...
“My repression is as legitimate as your freedom”: A Conversation with Yẹ́misí Aríbisálà
February 20, 2017
Yẹ́misí Aríbisálà, formerly Yẹ́misí Ogbe, is a food memoirist...
Harry Garuba: In Praise of “the Thursday People”
November 30, 2020
Harry Garuba who passed in February 2020 was a...
“The artist is a person at a crossroads” – Francis B. Nyamnjoh
December 14, 2021
Cameroonian Scholar Francis B. Nyamnjoh on Art, Academia, indebtedness,...
Prof. Monica Mweseli: Okot P’bitek’s Call Still Relevant to All African Writers
Political turbulence following Idi Amin’s 1971 coup in Uganda...
Nnedi Okorafor: I just have stories to tell…
May 30, 2016
Nnedi Okorafor is an important writer, period. She is...
E.C. Osondu: A Writer must come to the blank page with humility
August 22, 2016
E.C. Osondu is the author of Voice of America...
Wesley Macheso: Fiction is greater than the reality it mirrors
May 9, 2016
Wesley Macheso teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Mzuzu...
Akin Adesokan: The Endurance of a Literary Culture
June 1, 2026
Akin Adesokan is unbreakable. This mild-mannered leviathan of letters...