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An Elegy For A Housefly

A small portion of your wings / Housefly, lies here before my eyes.

PoetryArikewusola Abdul AwalSeptember 24, 2023poemComment

Chain Of Supply

Here eats young and old.

PoetryBenedict HangirizaSeptember 17, 2023poemComment

Meeting Yewa

As soon as the smoke dispersed, a gorgeous woman with glowing dark skin was standing there.

FictionRachel BarduhnSeptember 9, 2023short story, Yoruba, Orisha, IdentityComment

Cousins

We become our parents’ dreams. / We must now find a way to be free.

PoetryRohanna SsanyuSeptember 2, 2023poem, Rohanna SsanyuComment

Gayaza Road

Maybe these streets swallow us whole

PoetryRohanna SsanyuAugust 26, 2023poem, Rohanna SsanyuComment

The Backyard

She sighed. “Everything grows here,” she said, pulling out more weeds. “If it’s strong, it lives. If not, then it dies.”

Fiction, PodcastHuwa OkoyomohAugust 23, 2023short story, Huwa Okoyomoh, In the writer's voice Comments

Uncle Writes

She leaped from her window and became a swarm of bats.

Poetry, AudioRohanna SsanyuAugust 19, 2023poem, Rohanna SsanyuComment

In Too Deep

Last night, she came into the world of my dreams and rocked it upside down. She was all of splendour and beauty.

FictionAbasiofon 'Abbey' EbioAugust 12, 2023short story, Abasiofon EbioComment

Salvation

You hum the words of the poem again and again to the boy, smoothing his hair over and over as you do so. Already, you know that there is no more sleep tonight. You know this is where you will lie till the sun shines through those dancing curtains.

FictionMoyòsóre ÀyìnlàJuly 15, 2023short story, QueerComment

The art of kneeling

and the girls all carry something common in their dirge/

These men all knelt between their thighs.

PoetryEliongema UdofiaJuly 1, 2023prose-poem, poemComment

Make The Devil Disappear

The first time I saw the devil, I was four and didn’t quite make sense of what I saw. The second time I saw him, I was a year older and more articulate, but it was only for a fleeting second.

FictionEzioma KaluJune 24, 2023short story Comments

Under This Cashew Tree

I wonder what you think of how I look at you. How my hands linger when I touch you. I sometimes wish you’ll fall into my hands in total surrender, just like the cashew fruit.

FictionPrecious AfolabiJune 17, 2023short story, Precious AfolabiComment

The Pharaoh of Many Colours: An Egyptian’s Unsolicited Take on Afrocentrism

We’ve seen it all, really. Yet, we still fall into the trap of a single story—every single time. We still think that we are either this or that; we can’t be both; we can’t be everything all at once.

EssayMirette BahgatJune 10, 2023Identity, African identity, Africa Comments

To be

The guard whispers to his colleague in a tongue I’m too familiar with, the one whitened with otherness

PoetryDavid Agyei-YeboahJune 3, 2023David Agyei-Yeboah, poem, Narrative PoemComment

rain, earth and treasure

Why fit in if I lose myself?

PoetryDavid Agyei-YeboahMay 21, 2023poem, prose-poem, David Agyei-YeboahComment

The Smugglers

The room felt as if the earth had veered off its axis. The fan yet swirled. And Alice’s heart beat erratically in her chest. She had a voice, but she seemed to have lost it.

FictionJohnson AppiahMay 20, 2023short storyComment

crackled into dark

I walked around the casket and saw Grandma’s distorted body.

PoetryDavid Agyei-YeboahMay 6, 2023poem, David Agyei-YeboahComment

One Day in the Life of Dr Toni Morenike

There were fat men, enormous men, short men, men with bald heads, men with full beards, and gaunt, ashen men. They all had one thing in common. Seated or standing, they had their legs splayed and were contorted in various stages of pain, their expressions a montage of horrors.

FictionEviano GeorgeApril 29, 2023short storyComment