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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
Saturday, September 7, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
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
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....
Ritah Tumushabe | Sacred Threads: A Personal Journey of Faith and Loss
July 31, 2023
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Today, I have decided to retire my rosary. This...
Michelle Chepchumba: When Your Life Means Nothing
July 31, 2021
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It is past midnight. Maybe 1:00 am, maybe 2:00....
Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
‘He who rides the sea of the Nile must...
Aadhiya Tulsi | Dichotomy, Diaspora, Dissonance
November 30, 2023
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I Childhood; first imprints The bell rings, marking the end...
Prince Ihè | Here, We Sing A Sad Song
December 30, 2023
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"We only live once. We only die once. How...
Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go
May 31, 2024
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It’s so cold. My nostrils are clogged. My cheeks...
Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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Wayne McCray | No Rest for the Wicked
Fiction
Wayne McCray
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Shannon Kenny | The Vigil – a bedtime story
Fiction
Shannon Kenny
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PLAY
The Ladies at the White Board: A Memoir Excerpt by Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema
February 2, 2015
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PART 1 When I walked into the then staff room...
I Would Rather Shun Self-Publishing – Amatoritsero Ede
August 13, 2007
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Amatoritsero Ede, an award winning Nigerian writer based in...
Idzia Ahmad: A Meteor, a Vagrant Arab
May 4, 2007
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In many ways, Idzia Ahmad was my friend and...
Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
A PLAY PERSONS: OLAOHA, OBINNE, IKEDIKE, NWELUMMA, ANIMOKE, EZEMMUO, VILLAGERS. I Night...
The Sun Shall Rise: Poems by Clarius Ugwuoha
October 31, 2005
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Suicide shattered and scattered lonely and disillusioned his world hung on a ragged knot the birds sang...
My Name: Poetry by Joshua Omotayo Aire
January 27, 2018
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MY NAME (an invocation) . there is a way bodies fall into...
Cornelia Smith Fick: Fool’s Gold
July 31, 2020
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FOOL’S GOLD A familiar embrace of gold-bearing rock, tentacles spread to fissure; whispered...
Fiction
Chimezie Okoro | Heat of the Afternoon Sun
Chimezie Okoro
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Fiction
Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Lucy Mwelu
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RANDOM FLASHBACK
Forever, Forever: Flash fiction by Onuchukwu Joseph Chimezie
Fiction
Onuchukwu Joseph Chimezie
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Cynicism Against Women Writers in Kenya is a ‘Single Story Catastrophe’
Essays & Reviews
Alexander K. Opicho
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Akeem Lasisi: Why I Perform My Poems
People
Sylvester Asoya
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LAST MONTH...
Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza | Penance
Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza
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Mark Kennedy Nsereko | The White Women of Ben Kiwanuka Street
Mark Kennedy Nsereko
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Mayuyuka Kaunda | Blink
Mayuyuka Kaunda
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Ọ̀ṣúnrèmí Akérédolú | Polygamy and Parkinson’s Disease
Ọ̀ṣúnrèmí Akérédolú
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Daniel Joe | The Hope of Life
Daniel Joe
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Taiwo Akinyemi | The First Night
Taiwo Akinyemi
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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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Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed | The Path to Healing
Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed
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Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe | Icarusting
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe
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“Literature Can Catalyze Transformation in Society”: A Conversation with Francis Egbokhare
Tolu Akinwole
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