Deming | Cynthia Chukwuma
They met at the chic café she frequented during the holidays and when she did not have to teach at the center. She always sat on the second floor, by…
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The Miracle of the Tomb | Kwame Boateng
Weight is the test result wrapped around my ankle, dragging my body into the liquid abyss. My father’s tongue squeezes me into a prayer point and this, too, shatters my…
To My Little Boy | Ewoenam Akahoho
Listen. the trees do not grow because there is an abundance of growing tied to the waist of the universe Or, the tortoise taking its unhurried, indecisive steps, believing so…
When You Are Dying | Dmitry Blizniuk
Poetry reading by Uche Anaekwe When you are dying, the electric snow of oblivion falls slowly on the soft apricot pores of the brain that is growing cold. The snowfall…
Not It | John Paul Caponigro
It’s not an it and neither am I. Nature is a verb, I am a doing. I’m done with it. It is half of the shit we do to us.…
Landscape of the Partisan | Junaid Ahmed Ahangar
Words fall off this knitting needle as I spin a yarn of moonlit memories the stitches keep growing larger and before I know I have spun myself a sweater made…
Ajegunle | Abdullah Jimoh O.
Two three-storey buildings having a street splinter them like a sternum dividing the ribs, peer into the eyes of each other with candidness. I live in one of them, the…
A Portrait of a Group of Girls | Khaloud Al-Muttalibi
Two years after Tal Afar’s liberation from ISIS, Zhiyan, the young woman who survived the most brutal attack, painted a disturbing portrait of a group of girls. The crimson-red slams…
A Lesson on Gratitude | I Echo
“I came here because Ghanaians are having difficulties and suffering. It is my responsibility to try and help because if it is a question of counting who votes for me…
Revisiting Ghosts: A Conversation with Maaza Mengiste on Fiction, Ethiopia, and Dark Histories
Maaza Mengiste received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from New York University. A novelist, essayist, and photographer, she is the author of the novel, The Shadow…