Festus Obehi Destiny 8/15/21 Festus Obehi Destiny 8/15/21

Purity and the F Word

Christina Purity bought a bottle full of curry spice and thyme and stuck it deep into her vagina so she could spice up her sex life

Joshua Chizoma 8/14/21 Joshua Chizoma 8/14/21

Audio: Collector of Memories

A story from The Hope, The Prayer, The Anthem. Written by Joshua Chizoma. Read by Amanda.

Joshua Chizoma 8/8/21 Joshua Chizoma 8/8/21

Collector of Memories

Shortlisted for the 2021 Afritondo Short story Prize

Muyiwa Adesokun 7/25/21 Muyiwa Adesokun 7/25/21

NOT FOR SALE

A poem by Muyiwa Adesokun

James Karuga 7/24/21 James Karuga 7/24/21

Confessions of a Third World Peace Merchant

I get a wonderful greedy feeling in my stomach that POOP Matters will be back here once the opposition leader gets into power and gets drunk with it and morphs into another problematic dictator.

Thabo Clive Mathonsi 7/23/21 Thabo Clive Mathonsi 7/23/21

Ashes to Ashes

The first thing we saw was a big chimney that expelled the soot of lost brothers and sisters that couldn’t breathe anymore.

Jessica Nwosu 7/19/21 Jessica Nwosu 7/19/21

My Abroad Husband

I don’t understand why a man should not once in a while prefer the natural feminine scent of his woman. All this fake fake perfume lifestyle is not my thing.

Michael Emmanuel 7/10/21 Michael Emmanuel 7/10/21

Farmer’s Boy

He was called farmer’s boy within the household, he said, because of what his fingers could do on a piece of farmland.

Orji Victor Ebubechukwu 7/2/21 Orji Victor Ebubechukwu 7/2/21

No Better Way to Recollect

But then the war came, and they rapidly became adults, people who could make their own decisions.

Michelle Chepchumba 6/26/21 Michelle Chepchumba 6/26/21

I Am Not a Machine: Thoughts on the Limits of Human Productivity

We don’t stop to ask why everything we do must be in service of a goal. Some things do not have a point, only existing for pleasure and delight, and that is part of the magic of being alive.

Edwin Olu Bestman 6/19/21 Edwin Olu Bestman 6/19/21

‘living next to the woman on the mat'

A poem on Liberia by Edwin Olu Bestman

Nzube Nlebedim 6/18/21 Nzube Nlebedim 6/18/21

Encountering Homecoming

I can imagine him, my father, some pride in his voice, informing his friend that his son, a boy they had watched grow up, had left home.

Sa'id Sa'ad 6/12/21 Sa'id Sa'ad 6/12/21

Of the people, by the people

They will forbid their people from voting for anyone that is not Musa. The subjects will take the news to their four wives. Their wives will tell their neighbours. The neighbours will tell their children, and the children will write ‘Sai Musa’ on every wall they see on every street.

Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi 6/9/21 Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi 6/9/21

Area Boy

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.

Rutendo S Maturure 5/29/21 Rutendo S Maturure 5/29/21

For the sake of what burns

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

Ayooluwa Olasupo (Imisi) 5/27/21 Ayooluwa Olasupo (Imisi) 5/27/21

Elegy for my mother

A poem by Ayooluwa Olasupo

Efua Boadu 5/22/21 Efua Boadu 5/22/21

Okukor

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

Nzube Nlebedim 5/15/21 Nzube Nlebedim 5/15/21

When The Flutist Burns His Pipe: The Rise of Queer and Emigration Literature in Africa

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

Eduardo de Bosco 5/13/21 Eduardo de Bosco 5/13/21

Feeding the multitude

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

Joshua Pregbaba 5/7/21 Joshua Pregbaba 5/7/21

Sounds from the Animashauns’

Short story by Joshua Pregbaba