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AFRICAN WRITER
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AFRICAN WRITER
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Saturday, September 7, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
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Justin Demmitt | Hold my hand
Justin Demmitt
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Poetry
Sosy Imafidon | Red Breath
Sosy Imafidon
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CREATIVE NONFICTION
Ọ̀ṣúnrèmí Akérédolú | Polygamy and Parkinson’s Disease
July 31, 2024
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It was a very cold February day in Cambridge,...
Prince Ihè | Here, We Sing A Sad Song
December 30, 2023
1
"We only live once. We only die once. How...
The Sight of the Sound: Instructions for the Slaughter of Small Ruminants and Monogastric Animals
July 31, 2024
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The closed door notwithstanding, the proceedings bore audibly into...
Lawrence Winkler | Pawns on the Nile
‘He who rides the sea of the Nile must...
Sybil Fekurumoh | Tomorrow For My Worth, Today For Children
April 29, 2023
4
The audience is witnessing a moment in a support...
Aadhiya Tulsi | Dichotomy, Diaspora, Dissonance
November 30, 2023
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I Childhood; first imprints The bell rings, marking the end...
An Ant hefting her Penance: Non-fiction by Aremu Adams Adebisi
November 19, 2017
3
I watched intensely as an ant was hefting her...
Andrea Zanin | Ghosts
Fiction
Andrea Zanin
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Chimezie Okoro | Heat of the Afternoon Sun
Fiction
Chimezie Okoro
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Shannon Kenny | The Vigil – a bedtime story
Fiction
Shannon Kenny
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PLAY
Chijioke Amu-Nnadi: We have authorship, not authority, over what we write
December 31, 2013
1
“Art comes to us because we are, essentially, fragile...
Rocha Chimerah: No language is incapable of addressing global issues
April 2, 2018
1
Rocha Chimerah received his B. Ed and M. Ed...
The Mystique of Maxim
December 22, 2020
3
(for Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Boroja I, Obi of Ikate,...
Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
A PLAY PERSONS: OLAOHA, OBINNE, IKEDIKE, NWELUMMA, ANIMOKE, EZEMMUO, VILLAGERS. I Night...
For My Country: Three Poems by Joseph Omoh Ndukwu
February 2, 2016
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OUR COUNTRY'S FORM Our country began to take form Like a...
Insane Moment: Poems by Ssemutooke Joseph Kitaka
March 30, 2011
2
Insane Moment Suddenly The song of the fields is a silly...
Incantations: Poems by Clarius Ugwuoha
February 16, 2007
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FAMINE Famine came like a warrior And Plenitude fled The sun rained...
Fiction
Wayne McCray | No Rest for the Wicked
Wayne McCray
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Fiction
Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Lucy Mwelu
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RANDOM FLASHBACK
DiaCritique: A Collective Review of Kunle Afolayan’s Citation
DiaCritique
African Writer Magazine
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Adeyeye James Oluwatobi: Omen
Poetry
Adeyeye James Oluwatobi
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The Virgins of Flaming Change – A Book Review by Ikhide R. Ikheloa
Essays & Reviews
Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
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LAST MONTH...
Taiwo Akinyemi | The First Night
Taiwo Akinyemi
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“Literature Can Catalyze Transformation in Society”: A Conversation with Francis Egbokhare
Tolu Akinwole
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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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Daniel Joe | The Hope of Life
Daniel Joe
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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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Mayuyuka Kaunda | Blink
Mayuyuka Kaunda
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