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
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₦1,000.00Add to basketWriting undoubtedly has become an essential part of storytelling. What we learn by observing the digital space in the twenty-first century is this: you need to know how to write. Politicians, event managers, athletes, grocery store owners, all of these people need content.
Here’s a compilation of training resources from our second installation of the Itanile writing workshop with Resoketswe Manenzhe @avatar_reso, and Kolawale Samuel Adebayo @officialpstkay (IG) & @samofthevoice (Twitter).
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The poems traverse through dirges and nostalgia to arrive at a convention where love is a fleeting thing. The prose – the entire issue, even – beckon the reader to partake of whims, dreams, and dares.
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The writers in this issue have taken the decision to shape the dialogue of the day by continuing to write. In doing so, these writers have opened new doors to all sorts of conversations about everyday living. They have also given us stories that make us gasp delightedly, cry and laugh. Such was my experience reading them. Through the stories, I was reminded of our shared humanity. I was also prompted to remember our complexities as humans. In the end, I found myself gaining fresh perspectives.
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Perdition by Aisha Oredola
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: I Question Politics through Poetry
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...
Sweetness: Winners for the June 2019 Collins Elesiro Literary Prize.
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...
A Billion Hellos
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 – The cfwriterz June 2019 Freedom Magazine & Prize
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 Anthology Release
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...
REVIEW: A Triangle of Time and Aging |Ebenezer Agu
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.
E.C. Osondu: African Literary Prizes & the Narratives
n this euphoric burst of prose, E.C. Osondu who won the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing with his story “Waiting”, talks about African storytellers
The Freedom Magazine & Collins Elesiro Literary Prize, June 2019.
This year’s prize comes with a hundred thousand naira (N100,000) and digital publishing deal with cfwriterz for the top 3 entries.