A Review of Sanya Osha’s ‘Dust, Spittle and Wind’
I was talking to Katleho Shoro from the Anthropology Department at the University of Cape Town about a workshop that was to be organised where two African authors were coming to speak about their...
View ArticleSanya Osha: Doing Violence to the Idea of the Novel
Sola Osofisan interviews poet, novelist and philosopher Sanya Osha, author of Postethnophilosophy and Kwasi Wiredu and Beyond: The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa. Osha is also the writer of the...
View ArticleHarmattan – A Poem by Oladipupo Akolade R.
It’s Harmattan When the fields are damp with dew, And the dawns billow with cold, It’s Harmattan. When the sky is grey or white, And the air pale like a ghost, It’s Harmattan. When the ‘noons become...
View ArticleBehind The Dust: A Story by Jude Ifeme
It’s been one year since the chaos and bloodbath in 12th Mile, but the relics of the violence and destruction still littered the streets; burnt-out cars down the alleys, a few houses razed to the...
View ArticleHeaven Is a Queendom: Fiction by Abenea Ndago
The drum of their voices was beating in my ears and I went to see them with my own eyes. Before crossing the black universe I walked for nights, fearful child that I was, past plains on both sides of a...
View ArticleElisha Oluyemi: The Dust Can Intoxicate
The dead no longer roam in our tales; they have all seized our pens and papers; now they are writing themselves to life. living, dead, all have stories to tell. —Anonymous STORIES HAVE ENDINGS—UNLESS...
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