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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…

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Essays

Homecoming | Chinonso Nzeh

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1. To be Igbo was to be unsophisticated. It was to etch the language of shame on your skin. It was to shudder, gritting your teeth and curling your toes…

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Interviews

Fictionalising History and Home: A Conversation with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

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Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Alberta, Canada. An alumnus of the International Writing Program…

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Poetry

Homestretch

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i wake to her hoot & the flapping of her wings a new bird on my windowsill spilling the dawn across the drapes it is a new day to…

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Poetry

Mother and I

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Mother seated beside me is an event of photograph I am yet to attend. The virtual is in the perception of an outsider’s view; it’s never a bird’s view of…

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