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ON NOT BURNING THE HOUSE DOWN

Non-Fiction by nanama boatemaa acheampong PART I She said it the night before I left for university, as if it were a warning and not an accusation. “I don’t want you to turn out like me.” She was in the kitchen, the light too bright, too white, for the hour,...

June 30, 2026

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ABYEI OF HOLLOWS

Poetry by Adut Loi Akok My mother’s favorite singer sang of Abyei Mother said, when you write poems son, Write one to the last standing Abyei of hollows. And by the time I walked across the river The last Abyei to survive the bullet was still alive. She was the...

June 23, 2026

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QUICKSAND

Fiction by Ruby Excel A woman my age has garnered a few funeral clothes. Black velvet knee-length dresses from my late twenties, long African print dresses that touched the ground in my thirties, Slit and Kaba made from very dull tie and dye fabrics for my forties and finally, lace...

June 16, 2026

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RADIO BODIES

Radio bodies & other poems by John Chinaka Onyeche Radio Bodies So many such nights, I am bent like a key. The child is a porcelain egg in the hands of a clock. The realities of home are built from sugar before the jawline of the sea; the coming of...

June 9, 2026

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ASANKA

Fiction by Benjamin Cyril Arthur The music is everywhere today. It leaks through the wooden louvers, bounces off the concrete walls, settles into my pores like nkuto. Daddy Lumba’s voice, smooth as pito, sweet as sugarcane, croons about love and longing. The boys call it burger highlife. Music from Ghanaians...

June 2, 2026