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When we think of how Africa speaks to the world, we sometimes think of the crying baby, its gaping toothless mouth. We think of the breasts shoved into its mouth, and the soothing relief that comes as the warmth of milk travels down a path to darkness. Ever seeking...
BOA Editions, Ltd. recently announced, E.C. Osondu as the winner of the ninth annual BOA Short Fiction Prize for his collection Alien Stories.
Black, the Savage shade of a bounded race
turns dead sketches into breathing art.
Night, the cool every man craves comes in the dark
when the sun sleeps and the moon wakes
Perdition: You see avarice turn into a pool and jump in hastily. Have you forgotten that even too much of sweetness brings forth dire consequences?
Harriet Anena is a Ugandan author, poet, and journalist. She is the author of a collection of poems, A Nation In Labour, published in 2015. Anena worked with the Daily Monitor newspaper as a reporter, sub-editor, and deputy chief sub-editor from 2009 to September...
If you ever had a story bubbling in your heart like water from a spring. The sweetness rolling over your head onto your naked skin, like in a shower at midday. If the sound of the rushing dialogues, the gripping plots, the mournful tears of a victim and the...
Like a billion frozen hellos awaiting the warm blanket of a hi, I've been kin to the foxtrot of silence, static, & the assaulting images of lapping currents. It is the carcass of dawn and the curious croaks of a raven floods this silence, perhaps like me it longs...
The shortlist for the CFWriterz June Freedom Magazine for the Collins Elesiro Prize has been announced. The theme for the June 2019 Magazine was “Sweetness”, adapted from a poetry collection by Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu. This year’s prize comes with a hundred thousand...
Syncity NG has finally released their Anniversary Anthology + competition. After publishing the longlist and shortlist, winning stories have emerged. The judges for the anthology were Leye Adenle and Mukoma Ngugi and Tendia Huchu wrote the Introduction. The anthology...
There’s something surreal about the way the writer describes the passing of time. I can almost tangibly feel the Grey in the surrounding and scenery he describes.
