HummingBird Journal, the digital literary and arts publication run by Creatives Project GH, has released its third issue, Africa, As We Know It, a collection built around memory, movement, and the everyday textures of African life. The issue arrives as part of the journal’s celebration of African Union Day, opening its pages to writers from across the continent and its diaspora.

Rather than anchoring the issue to a single prescribed theme, the editors set out to gather work that feels “authentically African”, deliberately resisting any tidy definition of what that phrase might mean. As the call for submissions put it, the continent is simply too vast, too layered, and too diverse for one definition to hold. What resulted is a collection of stories reanimated from memory, recaptured in the present, and relived for the future; pieces that wind through busy streets, stall briefly at intersections, and burrow deep into homes, whether to visit or to dwell indefinitely. Other pieces, the editors note, take the scenic route instead, meandering through markets, running in rivers, tottering in trotros, never quite settling, always building momentum.

That restlessness carries across the issue’s mix of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art/photography, with contributors drawn from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, and South Sudan. The lineup includes Kehinde Winful, Judith and Margaret Lombe, Yeayi Kobina, Molara Wood, Ometere Ikpegor, Victor Ihechiluru Unachukwu, Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri, Caleb Morton, Olivia Kayang, Andrews Owusu Appiah-Kubi, Bohemianthoughts, Mercy Aseka, Sapphire Mclaniyi-Agbley, Reath Bol, Simon Bokor, Faisal Forever, Bridget E. Agboyie, and Jonathan Tetteh Nartey.

The issue continues HummingBird’s short but pointed run as a home for Ghanaian and African writers pushing against convention — a mission that shaped its debut issue’s call for “narrative-shifting” work confronting stereotypes, centering underrepresented voices, and disrupting the status quo. Since launching under Creatives Project GH, the journal has positioned itself as a space for bold, unconventional storytelling rooted in Ghana while reaching outward across the continent.

Read the full issue here.