Saturday, September 7, 2024

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Dismas Okombo | Home

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for S.O. You still listen to the same Ohangla music...

Aadhiya Tulsi | Dichotomy, Diaspora, Dissonance

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I                                        Childhood; first imprints The bell rings, marking the end...

Sybil Fekurumoh | Tomorrow For My Worth, Today For Children

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The audience is witnessing a moment in a support...

Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile

‘He who rides the sea of the Nile must...

Ọ̀ṣúnrèmí Akérédolú | Polygamy and Parkinson’s Disease

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It was a very cold February day in Cambridge,...

Lips are Dark for a Reason: Non-fiction by Aremu Adams Adebisi

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My lips are dark. Pitch-dark. Black-charcoal dark. Moonless-night dark....

The Economy of Loss: Creative non-fiction by Dami Ajayi

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There’s been a death in the family. You can...

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Prof. Monica Mweseli: Okot P’bitek’s Call Still Relevant to All African Writers

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Political turbulence following Idi Amin’s 1971 coup in Uganda...

Victor Ehikhamenor: Confronting an Empty Canvas

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My muse is like the shell to its tortoise, we go everywhere together. But she is more active while I am in Nigeria...

Chinedu Ogoke: The West is the Giver and Taker of Literary Life

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                              --------------------------------------------------------------- When we talked in September 2003, after the...

Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM

A PLAY PERSONS: OLAOHA, OBINNE, IKEDIKE, NWELUMMA, ANIMOKE, EZEMMUO, VILLAGERS. I Night...

Frieda: Haiku by Abigail George

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Ted Hughes Weave your poetry – shamanic-wisdom And not by accident...

The Forest of Silence: Poetry by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe

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THE FOREST OF SILENCE A silent calabash full of milk Abandoned...

Olalekan Daniel Kehinde: Becoming The Man My Father Was

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BECOMING THE MAN MY FATHER WAS when mama led me...

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