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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 January 21, 2020

100 Most Influential Young Nigerians: Otosirieze Obi-Young, Arit Okpo, Kiki Mordi, Richard Akuson & Olutimehin Adegbeye Make Avance Media’s List

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Brittle Paper’s Deputy Editor Otosirieze Obi-Young has been named one of the “100 Most Influential Young Nigerians” in 2019 by […]

Features January 20, 2020

For Working Class Writers & Refugees, Sulaiman Addonia Is Giving Out 40 Free Tickets to the Asmara Addis Festival

Asmara Addis Literray Festival in Exile (13)

When writing is described as an elitist profession, critics mean that opportunities in the field are determined by access, which […]

Features January 20, 2020

Modern Sudanese Poetry | New Anthology Spans Six Decades of Sudanese History & Cultural Intersections

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Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology, translated and edited by the Sudanese poet Adil Babikir, was published in paperback in September […]

Features January 20, 2020

Chuma Nwokolo Compensated in Plagiarism Lawsuit Against High Definition Film Studio, Shares More Stories of Plagiarism of His Work

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In November 2019, the Nigerian author Chuma Nwokolo called out Nollywood filmmaker Bright Wonder Obasi for using sections of his […]

Features January 20, 2020

Apply to the African Writers Trust Publishing Fellowship Programme

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African Writers Trust (AWT) is a non-profit collective that seeks to promote the sharing of skills and resources, and to […]

Features January 18, 2020

Dr Stella Nyanzi Receives Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression

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The Ugandan academic and gender and queer rights advocate Dr Stella Nyanzi has been awarded the 2020 Oxfam Novib/PEN International […]

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