British-Somali writer Nadifa Mohamed
Credits: Wikipedia, writersmakeworlds.com Nadifa Mohamed FRSL, born 1981, is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on Granta magazine’s list of "Best (...)
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Credits: Wikipedia, writersmakeworlds.com Nadifa Mohamed FRSL, born 1981, is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on Granta magazine’s list of "Best (...)
A Poem For Martyrs’ Day By Frank Chipasula, USA The first vowel of pain pierces the night, O! We recoil in our nightmares, hearing a man (...)
Credit: Wikipedia Naguib Mahfouz (Egyptian Arabic: نجيب محفوظ, romanized: Nagīb Maḥfūẓ, IPA: [næˈɡiːb mɑħˈfuːzˤ]; December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an (...)
The Return By NoViolet Bulawayo Credit: The Telegraph, UK. I am a proper jumble of emotions as I make my way from the Ethiopian Airlines plane (...)
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Thierno Saïdou Diallo, usually known as Tierno Monénembo (born 1947 in Porédaka, is a Francophone Guinean novelist and biochemist. Born in Guinea, he later (...)
Eating for two By Phillipa Yaa de Villiers, South Africa Eating for two Hunger grumbles, fragrant food seduces the stomach rumbles; genteel lips (...)
I used to live By Gabeba Baderoon I used to live in a small room with a narrow bed and a television at my feet. A mirror hung on the back (...)
Homeward By Bassey Ikpi, USA Bassey Ikpi, a Nigerian-born but America-raised poet, captures audiences with her spoken word ode to her grandmother in (...)
I am an African By Puno Selesho South Africa’s complex social and political legacies have led to a diverse range of identities, an idea Puno Selesho (...)
Death at the Derby By Willie James King, USA. The horse with the broken ankle bowed, after dust settled, to all who stood before it, as it (...)
The Last Salsa in New York By fayia sellu, Berkeley, USA. Fishes are not the only things That pass under the Brooklyn Bridge O! the hearts (...)
