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Since 2004
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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Since 2004
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Poetry
Newpanther | Totally
Poetry
Solape Adetutu Adeyemi | The Baobab Doesn’t Punch a Clock
Fiction
Gabriele Micozzi | Distinguishing Features
Poetry
Omondi | If Einstein Is Right
Fiction
J.L. Oputa | The Little Golden Pockets
Fiction
Ọláolúwa Òní | Kuli Kuli
Plays
Olaseni Kehinde Precious | When The Engine Goes Silent
Poetry
Abigail George | The Child of Mulatto Parents
Plays
Olu Familoni | Money Baby
Poetry
Victor Ihechiluru Unachukwu | The Ghost of War
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Samuel Hale | Obituary
Poetry
Obituary "And now who hereis not buried inanother person’s heart?” —...
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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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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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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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DJ Benhaim | Krypton Fell from Grace & Landed Somewhere in the Ghetto
Poetry
Krypton Fell from Grace & Landed Somewhere in the...
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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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RANDOM CONVERSATIONS
Nengi Ilagha: Words are the instruments of our warfare in the spirit, as in the flesh
August 8, 2016
NENGI JOSEF OWEI-ILAGHA, fondly called Pope Pen the First,...
Naipanoi Lepapa: I needed to be a poet to save myself…
April 11, 2016
Naipanoi Lepapa is a journalist and poet. Her evolving...
Shadreck Chikoti: Speculative fiction is wide in its scope
May 6, 2018
Shadreck Chikoti is passionate about the development of writing...
Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai: Yoruba Studies Expert and Polymath
January 31, 2021
Olabiyi Babalola Yai, linguist, cultural critic, philosopher, Yoruba studies...
The Mystique of Maxim
(for Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Boroja I, Obi of Ikate,...
Uwem Akpan: On Bullets, Bestsellers and Bedbugs
April 30, 2022
Uwem Akpan In conversation with Sola Osofisan. In 2008, Uwem...
“Literature Can Catalyze Transformation in Society”: A Conversation with Francis Egbokhare
July 31, 2024
Francis Egbokhare, poet, cultural critic and professor of linguistics...
The Permanence of Loss | A Conversation with Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé
June 30, 2026
Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé’s debut poetry collection, My Father Paints His...
Anezi Okoro: Celebrating the Master Story Teller in Enugu
August 22, 2016
Enugu had not quite witnessed a literary event of...