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Features, Fiction - Anthology, Stories and Poems, Submission July 7, 2019

Her Stripes | Odah Brian | Fiction from Go the Way Your Blood Beats Anthology

Odah Brian’s “Her Stripes” is taken from Go the Way Your Blood Beats: New Short Fiction from Africa (Brittle Paper, April 2019). Edited by the South African writer Anathi Jongilanga, and with an introduction by the Somali writer and visual artist Diriye Osman, the anthology, which centers queer lives, also features work by Vuyelwa Maluleke, Tsholofelo […]

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Features, Nonfiction, Submission July 5, 2019

A Triangle of Time and Aging | Ebenezer Agu | Nonfiction

During my evening walks, I always pass through moments which seem more the stuff of photography than the written word. There are stories in street corners, in things that, without keen observation, would be judged mundane. A toy sticking out of a refuse bag beside the road had once kicked my imagination into a range […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission May 3, 2019

My Mother’s Unknowing Son | Theophilus Sokuma | Poetry

Mother is a praying hand & a spitting tongue of fire. Her knees have become tree roots after endless hours of being buried in the earth. Her face ashy red from the nonstop incense burning. She spits fire from her tongue, sending them to the devils lurking around. The devil that I think I […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission May 3, 2019

The Day Dorothy Disappeared | Dimakatso Sedite | Poetry

Content Warning: This poem contains depictions of physical violence. He enters her kitchen like a wind from Namibia Pots clank in fear. Her face, a mature firm fruit, becomes a fracture. There he stands, a rod on two legs; She wilts, like a peach forgotten to be picked. Her fear is shreds of […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission May 1, 2019

Love’s Pure Light | Victor Adams | Fiction

Chigozie sat by the palm tree overlooking the stream, counting the seconds as he waited. The evening breeze felt cool against his skin. The skyline above him was a dull orange gauze as the sun fell from its majestic throne above the earth and the sky’s creatures flew in waves as they receded […]

Your Back Turned | Abbey Khambule | Fiction

You plant my tiny feet in a flowerbed white with clouds of lilies of the Nile. A gust of cold wind twirls dead leaves fallen off the master’s winter tree back onto the deck you had just swept clean. And, while the cats skirt round the edge of the garden reluctant to wet their […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission April 26, 2019

Bana Dede | Nana Yaa A. Asante-Darko | Poetry

Your body is the last house left in a ghost town whose inhabitants took their good time to practise their segue, make their departure thorough, and sound like a tribute to reluctance they stayed the years it took to exorcise the idea of a revenant and scrub clean memory off your walls all what’s […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission April 26, 2019

This Is How God Happens | Olajide A. Omojarabi | Fiction

Sometimes, God happens in showers. Papa once owned a house. At Angwa Rimi in Jos. When he and his friends spoke of houses the same way women speak of pregnancies, his often sounded much like a stillbirth. The house collapsed, already roofed and plastered, after days of ceaseless showers. I never saw the house; […]