Reconstructing Africa: Can Writers Take Sides in Ideological Conflicts?
The question over whether writers should take sides in ideological engagements is relevant, especially now that there are many competing ideologies given rise to by the current competitive world. In...
View ArticleRootless: A Poem by Moffat Sebola
ROOTLESS I feel it’s worth speaking fair, Allowing my being full vent: I am proudly African! My skin shines dark against sunset, and, My eyes burn, spewing red-hot lava in the twilight. My smile at...
View ArticleWhy Africa Did Not Die In Biafra: An Essay by Nnamdi Uzuegbu
The war may have come and gone and the rising sun may have set forever but debates about the kind of country Biafra could have become will never end. After reading many of the popular books on the...
View ArticleHow to Dispose of Good Shoes in Africa: Non-fiction by Ebuka Prince Okoroafor
The shoes on my feet have seen three generations and passed down four hands. But they will end on these feet because my father has two sons and I am the last. Maybe. The shoes — brown, Italian, and...
View ArticleDefining Africa: A Poem by Ernest O. Ogunyemi
DEFINING AFRICA i have come from the horizons beyond the sea crossing the mighty waters mounting the many mountains dropping when they fall into hills and valleys to see you Africa where they say the...
View ArticleThis Africa: Poems by Olanrewaju Moses
THIS AFRICA in Africa, the kaleidoscope never stops to spin, one hand sweeps away a Hutu home, like flood surreptitiously snaking into the crevices of a broken sty, after a July shower. the bight of...
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