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A new frontier for African and black expression, literature, and critical discourse.
Joined February 2020
Read the poems of Abu Bakr Sadiq and Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto on A Long House. Abu Bakr Sadiq:.
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from what he remembers, our worries beganwhen we buried his amuletsby the waterside.the year is 1969: townscapes are lurchingfromthe arms of one bl
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A Long Talk: No. 9.In this stimulating conversation, poets Abu Bakr Sadiq and Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto discuss writing as a practice of facing the difficult truths of the Nigerian situation and of one's personal histories, among other necessary things.
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In this ninth edition of A Long Talk, Nigerian poets Abu Bakr Sadiq and Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto have a deeply profound conversation that touches on life in Nigeria, the present (and future) implications
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What more is there to say but to call the poet what he was: The Islander.
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Derek Walcott is writing a poetry of the Caribbean.
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RT @ChinuaEzenwa: Thrilled to share that I had a heartfelt conversation with @bakronline, where we discussed about life, writing, our books….
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In this ninth edition of A Long Talk, Nigerian poets Abu Bakr Sadiq and Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto have a deeply profound conversation that touches on life in Nigeria, the present (and future) implications
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A good day for Edward P. Jones.
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“They caught him after he had killed the second man.”
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A Short Talk: In this edition, the 7th, 2025 Rajat Neogy editorial fellow Sihle Ntuli had an exchange with the South African writer Zukiswa Wanner about the novel, pan-Africanist literature, writer wellness, and social justice.
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Zukiswa Wanner is a critically acclaimed South African journalist, novelist and editor who recently released her fifth novel Love, Marry, Kill with South African publisher Kwela. For this seventh edi
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“Much as I admired Mother, I was afraid that, if the passive-aggressive tension between her and Uncle Usama escalated into an open verbal confrontation, it had the potential to get ugly.”.—Mohammed Naseehu Ali.
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I was aware that my daring escape had made Uncle look like a fool, and I knew that from that evening on I would be in the crosshairs of his vengeance.
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"I am moved by these swaggering bodies, dressed in their finest, walking to houses that look only seven feet high. I envy the ardour in their gait, a lack of hurry, as if by walking they possess a piece of the earth. I want to be these men.".—Emmanuel Iduma, A Stranger’s Pose
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“There are so many quiet joys separate from the accolades, like when I finish something, and I knew right away that it was beautiful.”.—Mubanga Kalimamukwento in conversation with Sihle Ntuli. Read the latest edition of A Short Talk.
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In this sixth edition of A Short Talk, 2025 Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellow Sihle Ntuli chats to award winning Zambian writer and Ubwali Editor-In-Chief Mubanga Kalimamukwento. A variety of topics were
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A Short Talk: Ani Kayode Somtochukwu talks to Yvonne Wabai about the personal costs of truth-telling, the colonial roots of queerphobia, the radical potential of queer friendship, and the clarity that comes from choosing courage over conformity.
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Ani Kayode Somtochukwu is a writer and queer liberation activist whose work is a luminous refusal of silence. His debut novel, And Then He Sang a Lullaby, dares to imagine queer love in a world struc
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Submissions still open to “Chronic.” Do check the requirements and send in your work.
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Chronic—A Chapbook on Living with Illness, edited by Yvonne WabaiThere’s a certain silence that often settles around chronic illness—a quiet that comes not just from pain, but from bein
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In his essay “J.M. Coetzee vs. English,” Carey Baraka writes boldly about the flaws and ineffectual gestures in Coetzee’s project—advanced through Speaking in Tongues and El Polaco—to dismantle the global dominance of English in literature and publishing.
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A review of Speaking in Tongues.
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“. I can understand.Borgesʼs blind love for Buenos Aires,.how a man feels the streets of a city swell in his hand.”.—Derek Walcott, Midsummer
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Mumbi Kanyogo on Wambui Otieno, KLFA (the Mau Mau), Amilcar Cabral, and merging with the masses in anti-colonial struggle.
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It wasn’t the first Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA, popularly known as Mau Mau) oath that transformed Wambui Otieno into an anti-colonial militant, it was the second one. The KLFA insti
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Days I have held,.Days I have lost,. days that outgrow, like daughters,.my harboring arms. —Derek Walcott, “Midsummer, Tobago”.
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He wrote Kenya into our imagination as an intense and deeply restless song. We will miss him. May his work and his legacy be a comfort. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025).
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Read the latest edition of A Short Talk. In it, Mumbi Kanyogo talks with Yvonne Wabai about capitalism, care, and solidarity, and about how writing can be clarifying in her interrogation of these things.
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Mumbi Kanyogo is a Kenyan writer and researcher whose work wrestles with the intimate geographies of care, resistance, solidarity, and reimagining. Whether writing about the contradictions of domesti
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“Perhaps this will become my symbol—two chairs, domestic in their placement.side by side, so two sisters may see each other’s eyes, but able, still, to stretch.their un-stockinged legs far out over the well-kept rug—”.—Kwame Dawes (@kwamedawes), “The Exile Remembers His Sisters”.
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