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AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
AFRICAN WRITER
African Literature, Writers and Ideas
Sunday, September 8, 2024
AFRICAN WRITER
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Poetry
Sosy Imafidon | Red Breath
Sosy Imafidon
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Poetry
Justin Demmitt | Hold my hand
Justin Demmitt
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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,...
Sybil Fekurumoh | Tomorrow For My Worth, Today For Children
April 29, 2023
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The audience is witnessing a moment in a support...
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...
Prince Ihè | Here, We Sing A Sad Song
December 30, 2023
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"We only live once. We only die once. How...
An Ant hefting her Penance: Non-fiction by Aremu Adams Adebisi
November 19, 2017
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I watched intensely as an ant was hefting her...
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....
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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PLAY
Abigail George: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer
October 4, 2013
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I don’t want to be cool and for a long time I was experimenting with different voices in my writing. It took me a long time to realise I just had to be myself, comfortable with who I was. I don’t want to be popular. I don’t know how to be cool...
Nnedi Okorafor: I just have stories to tell…
May 30, 2016
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Nnedi Okorafor is an important writer, period. She is...
Nuzo Onoh: Terrified of Planes, Heights, Oceans, Thunder, Roaches…
August 17, 2015
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Nuzo Onoh is the author of The Reluctant Dead...
Kosoluchi Agboanike | PALM
A PLAY PERSONS: OLAOHA, OBINNE, IKEDIKE, NWELUMMA, ANIMOKE, EZEMMUO, VILLAGERS. I Night...
The Eve Manifesto: Poetry by Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
January 8, 2017
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THE EVE MANIFESTO I. GIRL The last time I saw her, There...
Fever Pitch: Poems by Abigail George
June 21, 2015
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Fever Pitch Gardens of the sun – I need your fields...
Planet X: Poems by Victor Chukwuemeka Azubike
February 16, 2016
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PLANET X For long Starchild You were Sci-Fi The future of nature You...
Fiction
Lucy Mwelu | The Sound of Freedom
Lucy Mwelu
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Fiction
Shannon Kenny | The Vigil – a bedtime story
Shannon Kenny
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RANDOM FLASHBACK
Sankofa is Chibundu Onuzo’s Blueprint for Homecoming
Essays & Reviews
Nzube Nlebedim
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Unhatched: A Poem by Jennifer N. Mbunabo
Poetry
Jennifer N. Mbunabo
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Drum Beats for Nduka Otiono in the Delta
Essays & Reviews
David Diai
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LAST MONTH...
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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Mayuyuka Kaunda | Blink
Mayuyuka Kaunda
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Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed | The Path to Healing
Sadiya Abdulaziz Mohammed
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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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