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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
Saturday, September 7, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
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Poetry
Justin Demmitt | Hold my hand
Justin Demmitt
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Poetry
Sosy Imafidon | Red Breath
Sosy Imafidon
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CREATIVE NONFICTION
Dismas Okombo | Home
October 1, 2023
2
for S.O. You still listen to the same Ohangla music...
Aadhiya Tulsi | Dichotomy, Diaspora, Dissonance
November 30, 2023
0
I Childhood; first imprints The bell rings, marking the end...
Sybil Fekurumoh | Tomorrow For My Worth, Today For Children
April 29, 2023
4
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
July 31, 2024
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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
November 19, 2017
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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
September 11, 2009
2
There’s been a death in the family. You can...
Chimezie Okoro | Heat of the Afternoon Sun
Fiction
Chimezie Okoro
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Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu
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Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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PLAY
Prof. Monica Mweseli: Okot P’bitek’s Call Still Relevant to All African Writers
March 4, 2017
2
Political turbulence following Idi Amin’s 1971 coup in Uganda...
Victor Ehikhamenor: Confronting an Empty Canvas
September 10, 2013
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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
April 30, 2008
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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
May 6, 2014
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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
February 24, 2018
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THE FOREST OF SILENCE A silent calabash full of milk Abandoned...
Olalekan Daniel Kehinde: Becoming The Man My Father Was
February 28, 2021
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BECOMING THE MAN MY FATHER WAS when mama led me...
Fiction
Wayne McCray | No Rest for the Wicked
Wayne McCray
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Fiction
Shannon Kenny | The Vigil – a bedtime story
Shannon Kenny
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RANDOM FLASHBACK
Living the Day: A Short Story by Ronald Adamolekun
Fiction
Ronald Adamolekun
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Orisun Iye: Fiction by Jon Doe
Fiction
Jon Doe
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Compass: Poetry by Pazqal Eriq Umehea
Poetry
Pazqal Eriq Umehea
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LAST MONTH...
Taiwo Akinyemi | The First Night
Taiwo Akinyemi
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Mark Kennedy Nsereko | The White Women of Ben Kiwanuka Street
Mark Kennedy Nsereko
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Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed | The Path to Healing
Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed
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“Literature Can Catalyze Transformation in Society”: A Conversation with Francis Egbokhare
Tolu Akinwole
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Daniel Joe | The Hope of Life
Daniel Joe
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Mayuyuka Kaunda | Blink
Mayuyuka Kaunda
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The Sight of the Sound: Instructions for the Slaughter of Small Ruminants and Monogastric Animals
John Edward Ellis
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Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza | Penance
Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza
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Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe | Icarusting
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe
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