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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

Ali Znaidi: A poem is a kind of selfie captured in words

Ali Znaidi is a widely anthologised writer. A Tunisian...

The Mystique of Maxim

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

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu: The Legend of Ben Tomoloju

The arts scene of Lagos, nay Nigeria, owes a...

Uwem Akpan: On Bullets, Bestsellers and Bedbugs

Uwem Akpan In conversation with Sola Osofisan. In 2008, Uwem...

Jesutomisin Ipinmoye: Dreaming Outwards

A while back, African Writer Magazine published this great...

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

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

“My repression is as legitimate as your freedom”: A Conversation with Yẹ́misí Aríbisálà

Yẹ́misí Aríbisálà, formerly Yẹ́misí Ogbe, is a food memoirist...

Nnedi Okorafor: I just have stories to tell…

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

Namwali Serpell: Planting Seeds in a Garden of Intention

Namwali Serpell. Born in Lusaka, Zambia. The ethereal forms...