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Barbara Mhangami-Ruwende
Dinga
(from the forthcoming novel, “I Did not Ask to be Born”)
“Dinga has asked me to marry him.”
Khethiwe glanced at me as though I had just announced that Popi our dog, had birthed …
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Echezonachukwu Nduka
Playing the Music of Dead Men
How did I get entangled with someone who couldn’t say my name correctly? Brenda came to me from the place where the word awkward was first mentioned. I’ve tried to convince myself that …
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Henry Akubuiro
Goodbye, Allepo
My video camera is the last thing I am packing into my bag as I plan to leave Aleppo tonight. A while ago, I saved all the files in a secret email address only my …
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Pratap Reddy
The Lime Tree
It was only a coarse brown envelope from home, but it fetched a smile of pleasure in me. I had been feeling low, facing an uncertain future as an international student studying in Toronto. The latest …
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John Tavares
Forest Hills
After Ollie served nearly a full sentence, officials decided to release him from the juvenile detention facility early. They shortened his detention term because he helped administer First Aid to a fellow inmate who suffered an epileptic …
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Miklos Legrady
Canadian Postmodern is a Cognitive Dissonance: Like salt in your coffee, the #metoo of art.
It’s obvious that anyone criticizing the National Gallery of Canada or their current crop of curators and artists would look unreasonable. Objections seem absurd when …
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Kufre Usanga
Orality in Amu Nnadi’s A field of Echoes
Amu Nnadi belongs to the third generation of Nigerian poets – the generation whom some critics consider a continuation of the second generation due to a lack of definitive/clear cut ideological …
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Irene Marques
Fiction Reviews
A Samurai’s Pink House,
by Sonia Saikaley
Toronto: Innana Publications, 2017
120 ppThe Samurai is often associated with honour, courage, aristocracy—and violence too. Being the military high men in feudal Japan, Samurais were bound to …
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Vi Khi Nao
Poetry Review
Streets As Elsewhere
by JL Jacobs
Norman, OK: Mongrel Empire Press, 2014
$15. PP. 92The old copper pipes that heat the apartment are rattling as I read these quietly incisive and transient JL Jacobs’ words, fraying with …
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Gerri Kimber
Fiction Review
The Necessary Angel
by C. K. Stead,
London, UK: Allen & Unwin,2018
220 pp. £15.99I happened to be present at the International Katherine Mansfield Society’s annual conference in 2014 at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, …