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Since 2004
Monday, October 19, 2026
African Writer
Since 2004
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Poetry
Victor Ihechiluru Unachukwu | The Ghost of War
Poetry
Omondi | If Einstein Is Right
Plays
Olu Familoni | Money Baby
Poetry
Newpanther | Totally
Plays
Olaseni Kehinde Precious | When The Engine Goes Silent
Poetry
Abigail George | The Child of Mulatto Parents
Fiction
Ọláolúwa Òní | Kuli Kuli
Fiction
Gabriele Micozzi | Distinguishing Features
Poetry
Solape Adetutu Adeyemi | The Baobab Doesn’t Punch a Clock
Fiction
J.L. Oputa | The Little Golden Pockets
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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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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DJ Benhaim | Krypton Fell from Grace & Landed Somewhere in the Ghetto
Poetry
Krypton Fell from Grace & Landed Somewhere in the...
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RANDOM CONVERSATIONS
A Hero of his own Myth | Lawrence Winkler in Conversation
January 31, 2026
"What is your final destination…?" asked the South African...
Naipanoi Lepapa: I needed to be a poet to save myself…
April 11, 2016
Naipanoi Lepapa is a journalist and poet. Her evolving...
The Mystique of Maxim
December 22, 2020
(for Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Boroja I, Obi of Ikate,...
Rory Kilalea: There is a growing lack of respect for kindness
August 31, 2025
Luck has played an important part in my life,...
Titilope Sonuga: I believe in truth-telling as a pathway to healing
Títílopẹ́ Sónúgà (she writes it as “Titilope Sonuga”) is...
Prof. Monica Mweseli: Okot P’bitek’s Call Still Relevant to All African Writers
March 4, 2017
Political turbulence following Idi Amin’s 1971 coup in Uganda...
“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...
Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai: Yoruba Studies Expert and Polymath
January 31, 2021
Olabiyi Babalola Yai, linguist, cultural critic, philosopher, Yoruba studies...
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...