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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
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FICTION
Princewill Ibe | Isale Eko
Fiction
Princewill Ibe
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Dear Abdullah, How quickly time has passed! Days have morphed into weeks, weeks into months, and now years since the...
Itseme Akede | I Cry Only At Night
Fiction
Itseme Akede
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I was never like the rest of them. Not even at the times I tried my hardest, and I...
Felix Otieno | I Write This As If I Am Not African
Fiction
Felix Otieno
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This man Lewis called me on the twenty fifth asking if i would fight for him. The bedside phone...
Malkia Charlee | Tara Diddle
Fiction
Malkia Charlee
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“Easter, Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid—all absolute rubbish.” “How so?” “Consumerist gavage. Group presentation of our buttery wallets in obsessive...
Mike Paterson-Jones | The Scar
Fiction
Mike Paterson-Jones
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It started in a small bare cement-walled room somewhere in the bowels of the city police station. There were...
Kiraka D. Mugatsia | Still Waters
Fiction
Kiraka D. Mugatsia
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The hill was swathed with green foliage from the towering Eucalyptus, the drooping Mexican Pine, Omuyeye, and the Cypress,...
Fiction
Daniel Joe | Mummy’s Pet
One could begin with the small potholes that made his ass and scrotum hurt like hell, or the big potholes that whispered ‘death’ on several occasions. One could even begin with the thick bushes...
Daniel Joe
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POETRY
Josiane Kouagheu | dreams to bury
Marial Awendit | The Inquisition
Abigail George | Gardens of the Sun
LAST MONTH...
Wayne McCray | No Rest for the Wicked
Fiction
Wayne McCray
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Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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Chimezie Okoro | Heat of the Afternoon Sun
Fiction
Chimezie Okoro
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Sosy Imafidon | Red Breath
Poetry
Sosy Imafidon
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Shannon Kenny | The Vigil – a bedtime story
Fiction
Shannon Kenny
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Justin Demmitt | Hold my hand
Poetry
Justin Demmitt
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Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu
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Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
Non Fiction
Lawrence Winkler
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Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
Plays
Kosoluchi Agboanike
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Maik Nwosu
Lagos and a Life of the Poets
Essays & Reviews
Obi Nwakanma
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Ballad of the Peace-Keeper: Poems by Maik Nwosu
Poetry
Maik Nwosu
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Moonscape: A Poem by Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Poetry
Something Tells Me I Should Run: Two Poems by Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Poetry
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Obiwu Iwuanyanwu
He Was the Cobra (For Michael Jackson, 1958-2009)
Poetry
In Praise of Chimamanda Adichie’s 2007 Orange Prize
Essays & Reviews