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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
Aadhiya Tulsi | Dichotomy, Diaspora, Dissonance
November 30, 2023
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I Childhood; first imprints The bell rings, marking the end...
Rumbie Mugadza | No!
April 29, 2023
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“No” And The Dragon That Could Not Be Slain Your...
An Ant hefting her Penance: Non-fiction by Aremu Adams Adebisi
November 19, 2017
3
I watched intensely as an ant was hefting her...
Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
‘He who rides the sea of the Nile must...
Dismas Okombo | Home
October 1, 2023
2
for S.O. You still listen to the same Ohangla music...
The Economy of Loss: Creative non-fiction by Dami Ajayi
September 11, 2009
2
There’s been a death in the family. You can...
Prince Ihè | Here, We Sing A Sad Song
December 30, 2023
1
"We only live once. We only die once. How...
Chimezie Okoro | Heat of the Afternoon Sun
Fiction
Chimezie Okoro
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Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu
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PLAY
Idzia Ahmad: A Meteor, a Vagrant Arab
May 4, 2007
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In many ways, Idzia Ahmad was my friend and...
“I Regret Nigeria Has Given Me Nothing But Insistent Pain From Childhood” – Obiwu
May 22, 2007
3
Not everybody likes living in exile, yet it could...
Kabu Okai-Davies: Expatriate of the Imagination, Emigrant of Dreams
December 13, 2014
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Sola Osofisan interviews Kabu Okai-Davies, Australia-based Ghanaian poet, playwright,...
Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
A PLAY PERSONS: OLAOHA, OBINNE, IKEDIKE, NWELUMMA, ANIMOKE, EZEMMUO, VILLAGERS. I Night...
The Comfort of Strangers: Poems by Abigail George
March 4, 2017
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THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS Infertility is a dangerous Word. It doesn’t...
The Elongated Ballad of Gay Thomas: A Poem by Richard Anyah
August 17, 2015
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The Elongated Ballad of Gay Thomas I Citadels sing deceased songs...
Othuke Isaac Umukoro: Small Things
March 31, 2019
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Small things She stands by the window; an unripe metaphor, looking into...
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
‘Decolonising the Tribe’: Kenyan Crisis, Yale Trophies, and the Carrion of Indigenous African Languages
Essays & Reviews
Abenea Ndago
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Michael Inalegwu Ogah: Abattoir
Fiction
Michael Inalegwu Ogah
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Chinedu Gospel: The body as a ring for battles
Poetry
Chinedu Gospel
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LAST MONTH...
“Literature Can Catalyze Transformation in Society”: A Conversation with Francis Egbokhare
Tolu Akinwole
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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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The Sight of the Sound: Instructions for the Slaughter of Small Ruminants and Monogastric Animals
John Edward Ellis
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Mayuyuka Kaunda | Blink
Mayuyuka Kaunda
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Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza | Penance
Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza
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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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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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