Remind Me Not to Forget | Akoth Otieno | Fiction
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by Submissions Editor
5h ago
  In Ahero, a six week old baby girl was found wrapped in a black polythene bag outside a gate. No clothes, no blanket. She didn’t survive. I think about the decisions her mother had to make. What choices she had. In Palestine, a father holds his daughter, lifeless, in his hands. There’s an aching ..read more
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Excerpt: So the Path Does Not Die by Pede Hollist
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by Kuhelika Ghosh
5h ago
Finaba Marah could tell from the length of Baramusu’s stride, her erect shoulders and granite stare that her grandmother had come for serious business, so she sprang from under the tree where she had been sucking sugar cane, spat out the dry pulp, and ran toward her. She slid her hand into her grandmother’s and ..read more
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Apply to the 2024 Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship | Deadline: June 1
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by Kuhelika Ghosh
23h ago
Applications are now open to the 2024 Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship, organized by The Africa Institute as part of its African Languages and Translation Program. The residency invites writers to Sharjah, UAE for a period of three months to complete their work and will be given a grant of 45,000 AED in total. Established ..read more
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Summer/Winter 2024 or, Seeing (ii) | Salimah Valiani | Poetry
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by Submissions Editor
23h ago
  For Bapa   Kiana says Maybe history is a homeland… Maybe we do not return to earth when we die, maybe we return to each other sheets of old skin, rolled up like letters in bottles and sent to sea, unfurling into new bodies[1] touring iKapa in a red bus with Maleeah[2] I see ..read more
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Submit Nominations for the 2024 Nommo Awards | Deadline: April 30
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by Kuhelika Ghosh
23h ago
It is time to submit nominations for the 2024 Nommo Awards, celebrating speculative fiction and fantasy works published by African writers in 2022-2023. To nominate your favorite writers, you need to be an African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) member. The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) is a membership organisation of African writers, editors, comic and ..read more
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The Rippling | Rosemary Balogun | Fiction
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by Submissions Editor
2d ago
  It was in the early 1990s during the war in the far east of Africa, and soldiers were deployed from all other African countries to defend their sister country. It was one of the mornings that marked the beginning of the season, accompanied by chilly mornings and hot and sunny afternoons, followed by cold ..read more
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The Shortlist for the 2023 Awele Creative Trust Award is Out!
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by Kuhelika Ghosh
2d ago
The shortlist for the 2023 Awele Creative Trust Award is out. The 10th anniversary of this award reveals a list of five spectacular Nigerian stories with their own unique perspectives. Awele Creative Trust (ACT) is a non-profit trust formed in 2013 to provide a platform and enabling environment for creative young persons in Nigeria through ..read more
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The Story of a Novelist’s Wife: The Mukoma, Ngugi, Nyambura Controversy and Lessons for African Literature
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by Submissions Editor
3d ago
On March 12, Kenyan author Mukoma wa Ngugi announced on X (formerly Twitter) and on Facebook that his father, the renowned Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, had “physically abused” his late mother, Nyambura. This revelation has attracted significant attention. At the time of writing this piece, the Twitter post had amassed millions of views, thousands ..read more
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Ghanaian Sunrise | Faith Mosley | Fiction
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by Submissions Editor
3d ago
  My mother’s house is a concrete structure several blocks from the sprawling Accra markets that threaten to bleed onto this very block. It’s a narrow house with three stories that require one to be fully ambulatory which my mother is not. At the back of the top floor, there is a splendid view of ..read more
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The Covers for Jordan Ifueko’s The Maid and the Crocodile are Gorgeous!
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by Kuhelika Ghosh
3d ago
Nigerian-American writer Jordan Ifueko is publishing her YA romantic fantasy The Maid and the Crocodile this August. Set to publish through Hot Key Books in the UK and Amulet Books in the US, the books covers for the novel just came out and they are absolutely gorgeous! Set in the magical West African world of ..read more
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