Writings / Essays: Akin Adesokan
Neo Africanus: In Teju Cole’s World* Of the many encounters in which Julius, the protagonist
o...
Writings / Reviews: George Elliott Clarke
Poetry and Film Reviews The Deer Yard by Allen Cooper and Harry Thurston Kentville NS:
Gaspereau,...
Writings / Fiction: Yutaka Dirks
Pull of Gravity You can see the light of Calgary for an hour before you see a single street
lamp,...
Writings / Fiction: Dolly Reisman
Summer Lessons I’m stuck inside with my mother and my sister. We’re at the back of the cottage
in ...
Writings / Fiction: Tashania Colquhoun
Strangers When I was 14, my mother moved a stranger into our apartment. A few days before he
arrived,...
Writings / Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Benni
George or Holidays By the Sea South Africans who lived in the landlocked Transvaal or Free
State...
Writings / Creative Non-Fiction: Johanna Van Zanten
Premature Amy Ghostkeeper was born twenty-four weeks after conception: too early to survive,
but that’s e...
Writings / Creative Non-Fiction: Oludayo Olorunfemi
Today I left Today is the day I will leave, not tomorrow, not the day after but today. It has
to...
Writings / Poetry: Afam Akeh
American Trauma There is a hole in the ground the dead cannot fill. Only memory can feed it.
And silence, that...
Writings / Poetry: Luca Xifona
Yes / No / Yes The day after that unexpected night, Trees were set to scatter blossoms; the
sun Evaporated...
Writings / Poetry: Chielozona Eze
Poetry It is not speaking in tongue, child; it is baiting fish with fish. And so, I, a
blind,...
Writings / Poetry: Emily Izsak
Do We Not Laugh? You've been Shylocked, I said, as I dipped the tip of my nose into pursed
lips. This...