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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission March 20, 2020

Paper Horses | Dan Ajamo | Poetry

I wrote little notes on skin For him to follow Little notes to guide his path As he wandered through the Landscape of flesh— A hundred Doors Waiting to be broken. And what is love? Is it not every fibre of his being? A flame burning in the darkest room? His eyes are the […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News February 20, 2020

Chinelo Okparanta Recalls Her First Teenage Crush

“I was 16 years old, nearly 17, when a boy first expressed interest in me. Or, maybe it was that I was 16, nearly 17, when I first took notice of a boy’s interest in me.” This is how Chinelo Okparanta’s recollection of her first teenage crush begins. In a piece for Freeman’s magazine, republished […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission December 15, 2017

Revisiting Childhood | Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau | Poetry

in church today/ the pastor mentioned the twelve ways to burning in hell/ he did not mention love/ i began to remember/ like lost letters finding their way into sentence/ you, falling out of the pores in my body/ on a soft afternoon/ became my heartbeat/ there is something about falling/ about breaking soft stones/ […]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Bazaar Short Story Is All Love, Class and Multiculturalism

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new short story in Harper’s Bazaar, a brief one titled “How Did You Feel About It?,” is all about love, class and multiculturalism. The female narrator is Nigerian, her husband is English, and the rest of the characters are American, Japanese and Italian. The narrator ponders the nature of her relationship with her […]

Being Arab, Muslim and Female in a Post-Trump World | Interview with Leila Chatti, 2017 Brunel Prize Shortlistee

Weeks ago, we announced that Africa in Dialogue had published an e-book of interviews with the ten poets shortlisted for the 2017 Brunel Poetry Prize. The interviews were conducted by the Website’s editor Gaamangwe Joy Mogami and were published in collaboration with Praxis Magazine. We are republishing a few of them. * Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet. She is […]

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Features, Stories and Poems June 25, 2017

A Tenderer Blessing | Otosirieze Obi-Young | Fiction

THE university campus in Nsukka was full of ixora, and it was beside one of the trimmed hedges in our Faculty of Arts, stoic, green tables with red blossoms, that Nnaemeka first spoke to me, igniting a friendship that will, as long as I breathe, remain an indelible part of my life. At first, I […]

#CainePrize2017 | Review of Arinze Ifeakandu’s “God’s Children Are Little Broken Things” | By Kelechi Njoku

As you probably already know, the Caine Prize for African Writing shortlist is out. It’s created quite a lot of buzz and excitement in the last few days. While we are still celebrating with the shortlistees, we also think it’s time to get serious and talk about these stories. Are they any good? What is […]

Anonymous | Two Poems by Hauwa

anonymous in a blanklet, muffled like shame or oxygen in an inhaler: a woman balled into the size of anguish —small and infinitely boundless still— a stream of fire running directly beneath her skin. her thighs too are pressed into a man’s memory, the memory that was not first a moment. […]

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