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Issue 22 | June 2025

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Meet the Team Credits Editorial: The Covenant of Melancholy Interview The Universality of Relations: A Conversation with Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond Fiction The Hunger That Remains The Spices of Stone Town…
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Issue 21 | January 2025

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Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Pulling Dawn Interview The Soulful Empathy of Niq Mhlongo Poetry promise in my country is another way of gambling lives Bullet, and Pandemic Loss, and…
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Issue 20 | November 2024

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Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Of Beginnings and Continuity Interview On the Road Towards African Feminist Literary Identity: A Conversation with Chika Unigwe Fiction The Boy I Used to Love …
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Issue 44 | June 2024

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Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Destinations, Often, Are Halfway Points Interview: Towards Fiction and an Understanding of Forgiveness: A Conversation with Sabah Carrim Fiction The Evil in Me The Latecomer…
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Issue 43 | January 2024

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Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Justice for Sale Interview Renegotiating War and Memory: A Conversation with Emmanuel Iduma Fiction All That You See Here Are Broken Poetry Catharsis December 16…
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Issue 42 | November 2023

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Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Where was a Place? Interview Revisiting Ghosts: A Conversation with Maaza Mengiste on Fiction, Ethiopia, and Dark Histories Fiction Deming Today is a Good Day…
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Issue 41 | June 2023

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  Meet the Team Credits Editorial: What It Means to Speak with New Voices Interview Alienation and the Death of Literature:  A Conversation with E.C. Osondu Fiction Black Disappearances Remembrance…
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Issue 40 | January 2023

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Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Do You Not Remember? Interview Speculative Fiction and the Magic of African Literature: A Conversation with Stephen Embleton Fiction The Bridge across Inkar Ravine Soyinka’s…
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Issue 39 | November 2022

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Meet the Team Credits Editorial: A Testament to Love and Transformation Interview South Africa’s Troubled History, and the Beacon of Redemption: A Conversation with Karen Jennings Fiction A Tiny Seedling…
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Issue 38 | June 2022

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MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL: Back to the Roots INTERVIEW Traversing Cultures, Languages, and Islamic Spirituality: A Conversation with Leila Aboulela FICTION Hotel Chatter Akin From Tonight, a Woman POETRY…
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A journal documenting the African and black experience in short stories, poetry, one-acts, interviews, art and photography.

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