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MY COUNTRY BROKE ME FIRST

Poetry by Tawiah Mensah My country broke me first. Days before you left, you asked me about the things that make my heart ache. You always wondered why I’d never been able to stretch out my scars, watch them cower beneath the sun so I can begin to be whole....
March 24, 2023
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LAGOS

Poetry by Yewande Akinse Lagos. I hear your name as Parisian clouds hover around me your scented air hounds my fondest memories as I, am a nomad on pilgrimage I remember you – the congestion of your borders, the scarceness of power and the erraticism of sanity I have wandered...
March 24, 2023
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A SELF-PORTRAIT TOO DEAD

Poetry by Sarpong-Osei-Asamoah A self-portrait too dead At high noon on June 28, 2021, Nasiru Yussif and Murtala Mohammed were shot and killed by security personnel at a protest in Ejura, Kumasi, Ghana. A country made of pins & needles sharpens its teeth on our teeth. We were molten birds quiet as...
March 24, 2023
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KAE

Fiction by Akua Serwaa Amankwah Afrakoma has been found. Kwame Life calls me that Monday morning with the four words I’ve been waiting to hear for years, four words that slash me into two pulsating halves, four words that taunt me and haunt me in turns. I want to gather...
March 20, 2023
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AGORKPANU

Poetry by Joshua Enam Semanyoh Agorkpanu I cannot write a poem about home and forget the land that raised me Sugar - how can a place I left for years linger on my tongue so? The liquid in my heart still flows there Pour me water to drown this thirst...
March 17, 2023
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