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.[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
Editorial #17: What Does It Mean?
The moment news broke about the death of Africa’s foremost novelist, Chinua Achebe, one of the first feelings that came rushing in after the sadness for the loss of a[…]
Editorial #16: For World Book Day
Growing up in the Nigeria of the eighties, without internet, the only other sources of connection with the larger world were the black-and-white (and later colour) television in the living[…]
Editorial #15: Of Limits and Expectations
The writer (and current winner of the Nigerian Prize for Literature) Chika Unigwe was at a Secondary School in Lagos about a week ago, on invitation, to talk to literature students[…]
Editorial #14: The Process, and the Morning After
The coordination of three unrelated thoughts at the right junction on my desk (at the perfect time) led to the selection of the subject of this editorial. Each has to[…]
Editorial #13: A Bird Sings Because…
On November 25th, irrepressible Nigerian writer/critic Ikhide Ikheloa blasted a couple of familiar musings on his social media platforms. One of them went thusly: African literature! In the 21st century, the[…]
Editorial #12: Orality and Slices of Nigerian Literary History
One of the major points Chinua Achebe harped on at the beginning of his now famous memoir There Was A Country, common as well to most of his major literary interventions,[…]
Editorial #11: Four Writers
In this issue, I present work by four writers from Nigeria. Richard Ali is the editor of the Nigerian Sentinel Magazine, and the author of a new work of fiction[…]