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Features, Stories and Poems December 21, 2017

#TalesOfAnAfricanChristmas | Day 3 | White Christmas | Victor Ehikhamenor

Right on time, my son’s mail-ordered Christmas gift arrives. I am happy. I am a cool dad here in America in the suburban town of German Town in Maryland. Among white people being a cool dad helps my blackness. The dead brown, snow-crusted UPS delivery truck leaves behind a hail of soft white smoke as […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission November 21, 2016

The Lion in Harmattan | Otosirieze Obi-Young | Memoir

Something has happened to me The things so great that I cannot weep; Somebody is dead. —Kofi Awoonor, “Songs of Sorrow.” I HE WAS INDOMITABLE and alluring, in public and in private. His was a measured gait, a quick, measured, purposeful gait. The soldierly stride of a man who could knock down the most entrenched […]

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Features December 5, 2019

BBC Apologises to Bernardine Evaristo Over Presenter’s “Another Author” Reference, Following Twitter Backlash

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Last night, the BBC was at the receiving end of a storm on Twitter when a presenter failed to name […]

Features December 5, 2019

The 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Fiction: Meet The 5 Finalists

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The 5 Shortlists for The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in November. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, […]

Features December 5, 2019

The 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Essays & Think Pieces: Meet The 5 Finalists

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The 5 Shortlists for The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in November. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, […]

Features December 4, 2019

The Voices I Overcame To Write Silence Is My Mother Tongue | Sulaiman Addonia

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“Do you not want to ever see me again?” my mother said to me on the phone one day in […]

Features December 4, 2019

Video & Photos | Echezonachukwu Nduka’s Performance & Public Lecture on African Pianism at Gateway Playhouse, New Jersey

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The poet-pianist Echezonachukwu Nduka, author of the collection Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts (2018), has been offering a reinterpretation of African […]

Features December 1, 2019

Tejumola Olaniyan, Eminent Professor of English and African Cultural Studies, Dies at 60

Tejumola Olaniyan, eminent professor of English and African literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died of heart failure in Madison, […]