Stroke in a Painting | Peace Ufedojo Haruna
On the edges of my shadow is a woman/ who doesn’t leave everyone’s tongue bitter. I grab a handful of hair & try to get a taste of yesterday/…
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November 2022
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Renaming the Rainbow | Omotoyinbo Damilola
for grandma some memories stand like plaques on the cabinets of my mind, never to be blown away by the wind of time. some rivers overflow their shores,…
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Salted to the Root | Lisa Sammoh
Look there, the last brick fell and toppled over pebbled ground, ‘That last sound, was it a rumble or a quake?’ rolled over peony stems, plucked daffodils matured through last…
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A Haibun, and Resettlement | Karen Jennings
A Haibun I never travel now. Go nowhere but the grocery store, the supermarket, pharmacy. Mornings and afternoons, I walk the dogs, see the same bald man, a garbage collector,…
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A Tiny Seedling | Chinonyelum Anyichie
The car stopped in front of a glass door facing the street. The driver opened the trunk. Ifunanya got out. She took out shopping bags, eight of them, all from…
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South Africa’s Troubled History and the Beacon of Redemption: A Conversation with Karen Jennings
Karen Jennings is a South African author, based at LEAP, Stellenbosch University. Her debut novel, Finding Soutbek, was shortlisted for the inaugural Etisalat Prize for African Fiction. In 2014 her short story collection, Away from the Dead,…
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