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Chimamanda and Ndlovu

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Call for Submissions: The Caine Prize for African Writing

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Cover Reveal: Eugen Bacon’s “Crimson in Quietus”

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#JayLitSpotlightSeries: Aremo Gemini

November 30, 2025

The Ake Festival 2025: Experiences from the 13th Edition

November 29, 2025

Noisy Streetss Publishing Opens Call for African Manuscripts for 2026 Slate

November 28, 2025

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November 28, 2025

Adedayo Agarau Wins 2024 C.P. Cavafy Prize for “Halloween, Iowa”

November 26, 2025

The Morland Foundation Announces 2025 Writing Scholarship Winners

November 26, 2025

Arc Manor Acquires Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s “Birth of Orisha”

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2025 Nommo Award Winners Announced at Aké Arts and Book Festival

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Chimamanda and Ndlovu

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Siphwe Gloria Ndlovu Nominated for Dublin Literary Award Worth €100,000

December 4, 2025

Call for Submissions: The Caine Prize for African Writing

December 3, 2025

Cover Reveal: Eugen Bacon’s “Crimson in Quietus”

December 2, 2025

#JayLitSpotlightSeries: Aremo Gemini

November 30, 2025

The Ake Festival 2025: Experiences from the 13th Edition

November 29, 2025

Noisy Streetss Publishing Opens Call for African Manuscripts for 2026 Slate

November 28, 2025

Poetry as Sanctuary: Society260 Event Offers a Crucial Space for Mental Well-being

November 28, 2025

Adedayo Agarau Wins 2024 C.P. Cavafy Prize for “Halloween, Iowa”

November 26, 2025

The Morland Foundation Announces 2025 Writing Scholarship Winners

November 26, 2025

Arc Manor Acquires Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s “Birth of Orisha”

November 26, 2025

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Editor’s Note – Issue 9

Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim

Poems

Two Poems

Mariam Mohammed

Poems

Body Count

Bash Amuneni

Poems

Genesis

Emmanuel G G Yamba

Poems

Battery’s Scent

Anna Zgambo

Poems

Blood Moon in Congo

Richeal Barnes

Poems

Red

I Echo

Poems

Solemn, on a Whim

Eugen Bacon

Fiction

Thing in a Skirt

Karen Njelita

Fiction

All Things Go

Fatima Okhuosami

Fiction

Ndakasiya Mwana Wangu

Harrison Ncube

Fiction

The Grand Funeral of Baba Àlàmú

Olayinka Yaqub

Africa in Pictures

Nelson Mandela capture site at Howick

Location: Howick, South Africa

Ashim D’Silva

X, Instagram

A view across the water at Friendship Park

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Yohannes Minas

X, Unsplash

A graffiti-painted plane monument in Majunga

Location: Majunga, Madagascar

Rado Rafidinjatovo

Unsplash

Camel-riding in the Sahara Desert

Location: Marrakech, Morocco

yokeboy

Instagram

A cathedral in Windhoek

Location: Windhoek, Namibia

Ndumiso Silindza

Unsplash

A local market in Abeokuta

Location: Abeokuta, Nigeria

Omotayo Tajudeen

Instagram, X