EDITORIAL | Issue 28: Time and Time Again
As it is, that I should be invited to edit a magazine in the month of June, would mean nothing, except that I owe it as a great significance for[…]
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Editorial | Issue #27: Of Magic Words
Earlier in the week, poet and scholar Niyi Osundare penned an evocative piece of tribute to the departed Colombian writer Garcia Marquez whose work was described as where “the fantastic[…]
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EDITORIAL | Issue #26: Short Works
That this edition is coming a couple of months behind schedule wasn’t planned, but it has confirmed what I had always known: we’re not always in control of time and[…]
Editorial | Issue #25: The Gay Issue
for David Kato (1964-2011) At a bar with a few friends one evening in downtown Edwardsville Illinois, a couple of years ago, I hit up a conversation with a young man.[…]
Issue #24: Curtain Call 2013
In the last couple of days, I have received requests from readers and contributors to revisit the most popular issue we published in 2013. It is an intervention that I’ve[…]
Editorial | Issue #23: African Roar
Emmanuel Sigauke and Ivor W. Hartmann are both prose and poetry writers from Zimbabwe. For a number of years, they have individually contributed to the literary dialogue of their country[…]
Issue #22: For Kofi Awonoor
I remember the name from secondary school where, in preparation for the West African Examination Council (WAEC) exams, we had to read a couple of African and non-African poems (and[…]
Issue #21: Never Ending Circles
In 2003, as an undergraduate in Ibadan, I’d been moved to write a series of poems under the working title Stoning the Devil to deal with my conundrum with a war[…]
Issue #20: Of Literature in Retrieval
Sitting together one evening in Ibadan, discussing translation and the progress of African language technology, Tunde Adegbola, one of the pioneers in the field and fellow participant in the language[…]
ISSUE #19: Caine and Consequences
This issue has been delayed for weeks because of the Caine Prize. We spent the last six weeks before the eventual announcement following the horse race. Each of the shortlisted[…]