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BY THE VOLTA RIVER

Fiction by Benjamin Arthur  Each year towards the beginning of the rainy season, Tilapinne species, or tilapia as locals call it, swim down from the upper reaches of Africa into the Volta river. The fishermen, although still in a state of fatigue and excitement from the just-ended annual Hogbetsotso festival,...
April 4, 2023

LOST COMMUNION

Poetry by David Agyei-Yeboah There are people dying If you care enough for the living Make a better place for you and for me Michael Jackson   You and I are not so different We house crimson streams and brittle matter Yet you choose to tear me apart every waking...
April 4, 2023

WATER FROM EWES

Poetry by Henrietta Enam Quarshie   In these parts, with dry winds and relentless sunshine. Where bare feet slap red earth where hearts are full and smiles aplenty, we will welcome you. We will bend low in homage by the earthen pot. We will fill the calabash. We will get...
April 4, 2023

SIZZLING REFLECTIONS AND PENNYWISE THOUGHTS

Non-Fiction by Charlotte Derby There is a longing in the heart that burns bright and cannot wait to be satisfied. It takes only a foretaste of reality to disclose how fragile, that longing can be. A typical example is the zeal to seek greener pastures. The white man’s land is...
April 4, 2023

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