When you give him rice, he barely eats a spoonful. You don’t know if it is because the rice is plain even for your standards or if it is because pain has filled his stomach.

I just remember that he looked like a man in no hurry, like he owned time.

A poem by Ayooluwa Olasupo

there was a breeze that day. / The day the Oba’s artisan / began to model Okukor / using his fine metal comb.

Morality, then, is a weapon, and generations of Africans have been indoctrinated into its famed cult. You should then be far from startled that the mere mention of homosexuality, although practised in veiled quarters for traditional, spiritual, or aesthetic purposes, is never given a fair hearing

The messiahs’ miracle left us with baskets full of brokenness heavy for us to bear

Short story by Joshua Pregbaba

His eyes were what set him apart. But not because one pupil was black and the other blue. It was because, unlike the rest of the population, they held something aside from emptiness.

Of what are we to feel nostalgic? / Of faraway screams lost to the ears of mourning siblings?

“You are young and firm. That is good. These days, fresh blood brings in more money.”

A poem on dying by Yvonne Nezianya

Desta’s winning story, Ethio-Cubano, is a collection of memories where Cuban and Ethiopian cultures collide.

Advice to young writers: Don’t give up. It is not an easy pursuit.

I try to create an internal literary festival with my writing - Rémy Ngamije

Papa had asked mama to make my hair in a special way; so instead of six cornrows, she made twelve and added green and blue beads to the ends of each braid.

In this interview, Justin Clement talks about writing, his writing process, and Human Cities.

We need to create residency programs in Africa that provide opportunities to young writers - Joshua Chizoma

Desta Haile on writing Ethio-Cubano and her writing journey.

maybe some cultures live in cut bodies

I swear if you throw a stone at random in Hillbrow, you are likely to hit a Zimbabwean. Or some other African. Who that stone hits is up to fate!