Blog – Tampered Press

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

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

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

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

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

RESIDENT NOSTALGIA

Poetry by Afua Awo Twumwa at Suhum there were no curtains all the years we let the wind come & go how it wanted to we watched curtains pulled apart in the Philippines the screen filling our eyes & we thought the luxury of not needing air outside of yourself...

March 16, 2023