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HARRY GARUBA: IN PRAISE OF “THE THURSDAY PEOPLE Harry Garuba who passed in February 2020 was a well-known figure on the Nigerian literary scene primarily as a mentor to many budding writers at the University of Ibadan (UI) where he taught for two decades. He also served as an assistant general secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) in addition to editing OLABIYI BABALOLA J. YAI: YORUBA STUDIES EXPERT AND Olabiyi Babalola Yai, linguist, cultural critic, philosopher, Yoruba studies expert and distinguished professor passed recently after a brief illness. His death on December 5, 2020, is huge loss to his family members and numerous friends and associates all over the world for several reasons, the most obvious being that he possessed deep reserves of knowledge TRENDS IN THE LITERATURE OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS Also, Munachim Amah won the Writivism Short Story Prize. But Arimah is among a number of young diaspora writers whose achievements this year also drew international attention to Nigerian literature. For her debut collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING off my breath without hiccup I seek. the bliss of suffusion, as in please. kiss me in the rain one more time. before you disappear. I want to laugh whenever you say I love you. over the phone. all poets know the metaphor of loss. how the earth, happy to THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005. FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN NIGERIAN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY BY NIGERIAN literature, beginning with pre-independence publications of Amos Tutuola’s The Palmwine Drinkard (1952) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) depict literatures of masculinity. Put differently, the greatness of these novels and others like them, are emphasized in the physical prowess of their protagonists, a virtue attributed to pre-colonial Nigerian societies. The period YAA’S LEGACY: UNDER THE ODUM TREE Opoku, then known as Emmanuel, was one of the shining lights of the village. A precocious child, who having the dual fortune of being born male, and into a family of cocoa farmers, was sent to school under the big odum tree run by the Presbyterian catechist. Spotting the child’s precociousness and his ability to grasp concepts faster thanany
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HARRY GARUBA: IN PRAISE OF “THE THURSDAY PEOPLE Harry Garuba who passed in February 2020 was a well-known figure on the Nigerian literary scene primarily as a mentor to many budding writers at the University of Ibadan (UI) where he taught for two decades. He also served as an assistant general secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) in addition to editing OLABIYI BABALOLA J. YAI: YORUBA STUDIES EXPERT AND Olabiyi Babalola Yai, linguist, cultural critic, philosopher, Yoruba studies expert and distinguished professor passed recently after a brief illness. His death on December 5, 2020, is huge loss to his family members and numerous friends and associates all over the world for several reasons, the most obvious being that he possessed deep reserves of knowledge TRENDS IN THE LITERATURE OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS Also, Munachim Amah won the Writivism Short Story Prize. But Arimah is among a number of young diaspora writers whose achievements this year also drew international attention to Nigerian literature. For her debut collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING off my breath without hiccup I seek. the bliss of suffusion, as in please. kiss me in the rain one more time. before you disappear. I want to laugh whenever you say I love you. over the phone. all poets know the metaphor of loss. how the earth, happy to THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005. FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN NIGERIAN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY BY NIGERIAN literature, beginning with pre-independence publications of Amos Tutuola’s The Palmwine Drinkard (1952) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) depict literatures of masculinity. Put differently, the greatness of these novels and others like them, are emphasized in the physical prowess of their protagonists, a virtue attributed to pre-colonial Nigerian societies. The period YAA’S LEGACY: UNDER THE ODUM TREE Opoku, then known as Emmanuel, was one of the shining lights of the village. A precocious child, who having the dual fortune of being born male, and into a family of cocoa farmers, was sent to school under the big odum tree run by the Presbyterian catechist. Spotting the child’s precociousness and his ability to grasp concepts faster thanany
THE FORK IN THE ROAD: FICTION BY OLUFEMI AGUNBIADE ‘Morning, Pinky.’ ‘Good morning, Miss Jenny.’ ‘Hope you are fine?’ ‘Oh, I am,’ I gushed, fawning. Then a ‘Thanks’ with a wide smile. I watched her slender figure – so trim and so fine for her age – as she strode on smartly over the wet floor I’d just mopped. Those emotions, as strong as MALI KAMBANDU, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Mali Kambandu, Author at AfricanWriter.com. Mali Kambandu lives in Lusaka with her husband and their two children. While storytelling came early for her, she only began writing for pleasure after university at Juniata College, but it is now a lifeline to her. Mali's most cherished book is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. THE AFRICAN NOVEL AS A STRATEGY FOR DECOLONIZATION IN AMA In Our Sister Killjoy, the Ghanaian writer, Ama Ata Aidoo, domesticates the novel as a strategy for decolonization by re-presenting the “story of Africa”: employing a narrative style and engaging with subject matter that asserts the difference of Africa and Africans from Europeans.She subverts the discourse of Orientalism, which “constructs and dominates Orientals in the process of WILLIAM KHALIPWINA MPINA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM William Khalipwina Mpina is a Malawian poet, fiction writer, Economist and teacher. Many of his works appear in international literature magazines such as Atunis Poetry, African Writer, Kalahari review, Literary Shanghai, Writers Space Africa, Nthanda Review, Scribble Publication, Poetica Magazine and Expound; and in nine localanthologies.
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MALI KAMBANDU, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Mali Kambandu, Author at AfricanWriter.com. Mali Kambandu lives in Lusaka with her husband and their two children. While storytelling came early for her, she only began writing for pleasure after university at Juniata College, but it is now a lifeline to her. Mali's most cherished book is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. PIUS OLEGHE ARCHIVES AfricanWriter.com earns a minute commission from the occasional affiliate links that point to a book on Amazon.com. Thanks. EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned TRENDS IN THE LITERATURE OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS Also, Munachim Amah won the Writivism Short Story Prize. But Arimah is among a number of young diaspora writers whose achievements this year also drew international attention to Nigerian literature. For her debut collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING off my breath without hiccup I seek. the bliss of suffusion, as in please. kiss me in the rain one more time. before you disappear. I want to laugh whenever you say I love you. over the phone. all poets know the metaphor of loss. how the earth, happy to SOLOMON UHIARA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Red with anger, the king banished / the alien pilots, and ate the crashed birds, / and his body turned into a machine The Sacred Machinic Transformation The THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005. THE FORK IN THE ROAD: FICTION BY OLUFEMI AGUNBIADE ‘Morning, Pinky.’ ‘Good morning, Miss Jenny.’ ‘Hope you are fine?’ ‘Oh, I am,’ I gushed, fawning. Then a ‘Thanks’ with a wide smile. I watched her slender figure – so trim and so fine for her age – as she strode on smartly over the wet floor I’d just mopped. Those emotions, as strong asAFRICAN WRITER
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MALI KAMBANDU, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Mali Kambandu, Author at AfricanWriter.com. Mali Kambandu lives in Lusaka with her husband and their two children. While storytelling came early for her, she only began writing for pleasure after university at Juniata College, but it is now a lifeline to her. Mali's most cherished book is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. PIUS OLEGHE ARCHIVES AfricanWriter.com earns a minute commission from the occasional affiliate links that point to a book on Amazon.com. Thanks. EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned TRENDS IN THE LITERATURE OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS Also, Munachim Amah won the Writivism Short Story Prize. But Arimah is among a number of young diaspora writers whose achievements this year also drew international attention to Nigerian literature. For her debut collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING off my breath without hiccup I seek. the bliss of suffusion, as in please. kiss me in the rain one more time. before you disappear. I want to laugh whenever you say I love you. over the phone. all poets know the metaphor of loss. how the earth, happy to SOLOMON UHIARA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Red with anger, the king banished / the alien pilots, and ate the crashed birds, / and his body turned into a machine The Sacred Machinic Transformation The THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005. THE FORK IN THE ROAD: FICTION BY OLUFEMI AGUNBIADE ‘Morning, Pinky.’ ‘Good morning, Miss Jenny.’ ‘Hope you are fine?’ ‘Oh, I am,’ I gushed, fawning. Then a ‘Thanks’ with a wide smile. I watched her slender figure – so trim and so fine for her age – as she strode on smartly over the wet floor I’d just mopped. Those emotions, as strong as MALI KAMBANDU, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Mali Kambandu, Author at AfricanWriter.com. Mali Kambandu lives in Lusaka with her husband and their two children. While storytelling came early for her, she only began writing for pleasure after university at Juniata College, but it is now a lifeline to her. Mali's most cherished book is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. MASTHEAD - AFRICANWRITER.COM Masthead. Naza Amaeze Okoli, Editor, is a PhD student and Teaching Assistant in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi. He is co-editor of Footmarks: Poems on One Hundred Years of Nigeria’s Nationhood. He tweets @nazaokoli. Abenea Ndago, Associate Editor, is the author of Voices, a novel. An essayist, shortfiction writer
WILLIAM KHALIPWINA MPINA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM William Khalipwina Mpina is a Malawian poet, fiction writer, Economist and teacher. Many of his works appear in international literature magazines such as Atunis Poetry, African Writer, Kalahari review, Literary Shanghai, Writers Space Africa, Nthanda Review, Scribble Publication, Poetica Magazine and Expound; and in nine localanthologies.
SOLOMON UHIARA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Red with anger, the king banished / the alien pilots, and ate the crashed birds, / and his body turned into a machine The Sacred Machinic Transformation The FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN NIGERIAN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY BY NIGERIAN literature, beginning with pre-independence publications of Amos Tutuola’s The Palmwine Drinkard (1952) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) depict literatures of masculinity. Put differently, the greatness of these novels and others like them, are emphasized in the physical prowess of their protagonists, a virtue attributed to pre-colonial Nigerian societies. The period HAUSA LOVE POEMS: WRITTEN & TRANSLATED BY ISMAIL BALA Hausa poems followed by their translations: YAWON DUNIYA Jiya a yawon duniya Na hadu da karamin mutum Zan rera waka ga mai so na Mai ajiyar karamin mutum Dan lele zo mu yi lilo mu gangaro Alawa ga zaki ga gardi Sai karamin mutum Yaushe za ka THE 21ST CENTURY AFRICAN AS A COSMOPOLITAN INDIVIDUAL IN A cosmopolitan individual is defined as someone who shows cultural diversity by exhibiting the influence of many countries and cultures. Taiye Tuakli-Wosomu uses the term “afropolitan” to refer to cosmopolitans of African origin. YAA’S LEGACY: UNDER THE ODUM TREE Opoku, then known as Emmanuel, was one of the shining lights of the village. A precocious child, who having the dual fortune of being born male, and into a family of cocoa farmers, was sent to school under the big odum tree run by the Presbyterian catechist. Spotting the child’s precociousness and his ability to grasp concepts faster thanany
AMONG STRANGERS: A SHORT STORY BY JUDE DIBIA Jude Dibia. Jude Dibia is a graduate of Modern European Languages (German) from the University of Ibadan. He is the author of three published works: Full Cycle was published as a novella by Hint's Thrills and Booms series in 1999. MY GRANDMOTHER: A SHORT STORY BY ANDREW C. DAKALIRA I was ten at the time and we had just settled in our grandmother’s home. I was sitting outside the house with her one day when Che Bakali, our neighbour who lived about a mile from our home, passed by. “Good morning, Che Bakali,” my grandmother called out. “Good morning, Abiti Matola,” replied the old man in greeting.AFRICAN WRITER
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PIUS OLEGHE ARCHIVES AfricanWriter.com earns a minute commission from the occasional affiliate links that point to a book on Amazon.com. Thanks. THE FORK IN THE ROAD: FICTION BY OLUFEMI AGUNBIADE ‘Morning, Pinky.’ ‘Good morning, Miss Jenny.’ ‘Hope you are fine?’ ‘Oh, I am,’ I gushed, fawning. Then a ‘Thanks’ with a wide smile. I watched her slender figure – so trim and so fine for her age – as she strode on smartly over the wet floor I’d just mopped. Those emotions, as strong as EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005. FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN NIGERIAN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY BY NIGERIAN literature, beginning with pre-independence publications of Amos Tutuola’s The Palmwine Drinkard (1952) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) depict literatures of masculinity. Put differently, the greatness of these novels and others like them, are emphasized in the physical prowess of their protagonists, a virtue attributed to pre-colonial Nigerian societies. The period PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING Pamilerin Jacob. Pamilerin Jacob is a Nigerian poet whose poems have appeared in Barren Magazine, Agbowo, Dwarts Magazine, Burning House Press, & forthcoming in Rattle.AFRICAN WRITER
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PIUS OLEGHE ARCHIVES AfricanWriter.com earns a minute commission from the occasional affiliate links that point to a book on Amazon.com. Thanks. THE FORK IN THE ROAD: FICTION BY OLUFEMI AGUNBIADE ‘Morning, Pinky.’ ‘Good morning, Miss Jenny.’ ‘Hope you are fine?’ ‘Oh, I am,’ I gushed, fawning. Then a ‘Thanks’ with a wide smile. I watched her slender figure – so trim and so fine for her age – as she strode on smartly over the wet floor I’d just mopped. Those emotions, as strong as EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005. FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN NIGERIAN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY BY NIGERIAN literature, beginning with pre-independence publications of Amos Tutuola’s The Palmwine Drinkard (1952) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) depict literatures of masculinity. Put differently, the greatness of these novels and others like them, are emphasized in the physical prowess of their protagonists, a virtue attributed to pre-colonial Nigerian societies. The period PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING Pamilerin Jacob. Pamilerin Jacob is a Nigerian poet whose poems have appeared in Barren Magazine, Agbowo, Dwarts Magazine, Burning House Press, & forthcoming in Rattle. MALI KAMBANDU, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Mali Kambandu lives in Lusaka with her husband and their two children. While storytelling came early for her, she only began writing forpleasure after
WILLIAM KHALIPWINA MPINA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM William Khalipwina Mpina is a Malawian poet, fiction writer, Economist and teacher. Many of his works appear in international literature magazines such as Atunis Poetry, African Writer, Kalahari review, Literary Shanghai, Writers Space Africa, Nthanda Review, Scribble Publication, Poetica Magazine and Expound; and in nine localanthologies.
MASTHEAD - AFRICANWRITER.COM Wesley Macheso, Associate Editor, is a Malawian writer currently reading for his PhD in English Studies at Stellenbosch University.He teaches literature at the University of Malawi to survive and he writes to live. His short story “This Land is Mine” is published in Water: new short story fiction from Africa (2016) by Short Story Day Africa. He won the 2015 Peer Gynt Literary Award in SOLOMON UHIARA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Red with anger, the king banished / the alien pilots, and ate the crashed birds, / and his body turned into a machine The Sacred Machinic Transformation The OBI NWAKANMA: FROM INDIGO STREETS Obi Nwakanma. Obi Nwakanma teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of The Horseman and Other Poems and Thirsting for Sunlight, a biography of the poet Christopher Okigbo, whose life was tragically cut short by the Biafran War.Nwakanma was awarded the ANA/Cadbury Prize for his first collection of poetry, The Roped Urn. THE WHISPERING TREES: A SHORT STORY BY ABUBAKAR ADAM Abubakar Adam Ibrahim. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is the author of The Quest for Nina, a novel. He is the winner of the 2007 BBC African Performance Playwriting Competition and the Amatu Braide Prize forProse in 2008.
HAUSA LOVE POEMS: WRITTEN & TRANSLATED BY ISMAIL BALA Hausa poems followed by their translations: YAWON DUNIYA Jiya a yawon duniya Na hadu da karamin mutum Zan rera waka ga mai so na Mai ajiyar karamin mutum Dan lele zo mu yi lilo mu gangaro Alawa ga zaki ga gardi Sai karamin mutum Yaushe za ka THE 21ST CENTURY AFRICAN AS A COSMOPOLITAN INDIVIDUAL IN A cosmopolitan individual is defined as someone who shows cultural diversity by exhibiting the influence of many countries and cultures. Taiye Tuakli-Wosomu uses the term “afropolitan” to refer to cosmopolitans of African origin. YAA’S LEGACY: UNDER THE ODUM TREE If there is one word I could describe my mother with, which pretty much sums up her life, it is that she was tenacious. This was a woman who in the moments before her death, drove herself to the hospital. She had suffered a massive cardiac arrest. If the manner of her deathis not
AMONG STRANGERS: A SHORT STORY BY JUDE DIBIA Jude Dibia. Jude Dibia is a graduate of Modern European Languages (German) from the University of Ibadan. He is the author of three published works: Full Cycle was published as a novella by Hint's Thrills and Booms series in 1999.AFRICAN WRITER
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MALI KAMBANDU, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Mali Kambandu, Author at AfricanWriter.com. Mali Kambandu lives in Lusaka with her husband and their two children. While storytelling came early for her, she only began writing for pleasure after university at Juniata College, but it is now a lifeline to her. Mali's most cherished book is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. PIUS OLEGHE ARCHIVES AfricanWriter.com earns a minute commission from the occasional affiliate links that point to a book on Amazon.com. Thanks. EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned TRENDS IN THE LITERATURE OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS Also, Munachim Amah won the Writivism Short Story Prize. But Arimah is among a number of young diaspora writers whose achievements this year also drew international attention to Nigerian literature. For her debut collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING off my breath without hiccup I seek. the bliss of suffusion, as in please. kiss me in the rain one more time. before you disappear. I want to laugh whenever you say I love you. over the phone. all poets know the metaphor of loss. how the earth, happy to SOLOMON UHIARA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Red with anger, the king banished / the alien pilots, and ate the crashed birds, / and his body turned into a machine The Sacred Machinic Transformation The THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005. THE FORK IN THE ROAD: FICTION BY OLUFEMI AGUNBIADE ‘Morning, Pinky.’ ‘Good morning, Miss Jenny.’ ‘Hope you are fine?’ ‘Oh, I am,’ I gushed, fawning. Then a ‘Thanks’ with a wide smile. I watched her slender figure – so trim and so fine for her age – as she strode on smartly over the wet floor I’d just mopped. Those emotions, as strong asAFRICAN WRITER
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MALI KAMBANDU, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Mali Kambandu, Author at AfricanWriter.com. Mali Kambandu lives in Lusaka with her husband and their two children. While storytelling came early for her, she only began writing for pleasure after university at Juniata College, but it is now a lifeline to her. Mali's most cherished book is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. PIUS OLEGHE ARCHIVES AfricanWriter.com earns a minute commission from the occasional affiliate links that point to a book on Amazon.com. Thanks. EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned TRENDS IN THE LITERATURE OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS Also, Munachim Amah won the Writivism Short Story Prize. But Arimah is among a number of young diaspora writers whose achievements this year also drew international attention to Nigerian literature. For her debut collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING off my breath without hiccup I seek. the bliss of suffusion, as in please. kiss me in the rain one more time. before you disappear. I want to laugh whenever you say I love you. over the phone. all poets know the metaphor of loss. how the earth, happy to SOLOMON UHIARA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Red with anger, the king banished / the alien pilots, and ate the crashed birds, / and his body turned into a machine The Sacred Machinic Transformation The THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005. THE FORK IN THE ROAD: FICTION BY OLUFEMI AGUNBIADE ‘Morning, Pinky.’ ‘Good morning, Miss Jenny.’ ‘Hope you are fine?’ ‘Oh, I am,’ I gushed, fawning. Then a ‘Thanks’ with a wide smile. I watched her slender figure – so trim and so fine for her age – as she strode on smartly over the wet floor I’d just mopped. Those emotions, as strong as MALI KAMBANDU, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Mali Kambandu, Author at AfricanWriter.com. Mali Kambandu lives in Lusaka with her husband and their two children. While storytelling came early for her, she only began writing for pleasure after university at Juniata College, but it is now a lifeline to her. Mali's most cherished book is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. MASTHEAD - AFRICANWRITER.COM Masthead. Naza Amaeze Okoli, Editor, is a PhD student and Teaching Assistant in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi. He is co-editor of Footmarks: Poems on One Hundred Years of Nigeria’s Nationhood. He tweets @nazaokoli. Abenea Ndago, Associate Editor, is the author of Voices, a novel. An essayist, shortfiction writer
WILLIAM KHALIPWINA MPINA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM William Khalipwina Mpina is a Malawian poet, fiction writer, Economist and teacher. Many of his works appear in international literature magazines such as Atunis Poetry, African Writer, Kalahari review, Literary Shanghai, Writers Space Africa, Nthanda Review, Scribble Publication, Poetica Magazine and Expound; and in nine localanthologies.
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AMONG STRANGERS: A SHORT STORY BY JUDE DIBIA Jude Dibia. Jude Dibia is a graduate of Modern European Languages (German) from the University of Ibadan. He is the author of three published works: Full Cycle was published as a novella by Hint's Thrills and Booms series in 1999. MY GRANDMOTHER: A SHORT STORY BY ANDREW C. DAKALIRA I was ten at the time and we had just settled in our grandmother’s home. I was sitting outside the house with her one day when Che Bakali, our neighbour who lived about a mile from our home, passed by. “Good morning, Che Bakali,” my grandmother called out. “Good morning, Abiti Matola,” replied the old man in greeting.AFRICAN WRITER
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EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING off my breath without hiccup I seek. the bliss of suffusion, as in please. kiss me in the rain one more time. before you disappear. I want to laugh whenever you say I love you. over the phone. all poets know the metaphor of loss. how the earth, happy to TRENDS IN THE LITERATURE OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS Also, Munachim Amah won the Writivism Short Story Prize. But Arimah is among a number of young diaspora writers whose achievements this year also drew international attention to Nigerian literature. For her debut collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the THE 21ST CENTURY AFRICAN AS A COSMOPOLITAN INDIVIDUAL IN A cosmopolitan individual is defined as someone who shows cultural diversity by exhibiting the influence of many countries and cultures. Taiye Tuakli-Wosomu uses the term “afropolitan” to refer to cosmopolitans of African origin. FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN NIGERIAN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY BY NIGERIAN literature, beginning with pre-independence publications of Amos Tutuola’s The Palmwine Drinkard (1952) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) depict literatures of masculinity. Put differently, the greatness of these novels and others like them, are emphasized in the physical prowess of their protagonists, a virtue attributed to pre-colonial Nigerian societies. The period THE WHISPERING TREES: A SHORT STORY BY ABUBAKAR ADAM Butterflies drifted between the tree trunks, dancing and bursting into incandescent colours, sapphire lights glinting off their wings. The souls of the trees were so pure and homely without a hint of evil about them. All these souls, so pure, so clean, so many and not one stained by anger, malice or envy. SHADRECK CHIKOTI: SPECULATIVE FICTION IS WIDE IN ITS SCOPE Shadreck Chikoti is passionate about the development of writing in Malawi and across the African continent at large. In 2013, he started the Story Club, a gathering of like-minded enthusiasts of the arts, encompassing writing, books, criticism, filmmaking, etc. He was vice president of the Malawi Writers Union, MAWU, for a while, and alsoco-founded
THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005.AFRICAN WRITER
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EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING off my breath without hiccup I seek. the bliss of suffusion, as in please. kiss me in the rain one more time. before you disappear. I want to laugh whenever you say I love you. over the phone. all poets know the metaphor of loss. how the earth, happy to TRENDS IN THE LITERATURE OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS Also, Munachim Amah won the Writivism Short Story Prize. But Arimah is among a number of young diaspora writers whose achievements this year also drew international attention to Nigerian literature. For her debut collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the THE 21ST CENTURY AFRICAN AS A COSMOPOLITAN INDIVIDUAL IN A cosmopolitan individual is defined as someone who shows cultural diversity by exhibiting the influence of many countries and cultures. Taiye Tuakli-Wosomu uses the term “afropolitan” to refer to cosmopolitans of African origin. FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN NIGERIAN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY BY NIGERIAN literature, beginning with pre-independence publications of Amos Tutuola’s The Palmwine Drinkard (1952) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) depict literatures of masculinity. Put differently, the greatness of these novels and others like them, are emphasized in the physical prowess of their protagonists, a virtue attributed to pre-colonial Nigerian societies. The period THE WHISPERING TREES: A SHORT STORY BY ABUBAKAR ADAM Butterflies drifted between the tree trunks, dancing and bursting into incandescent colours, sapphire lights glinting off their wings. The souls of the trees were so pure and homely without a hint of evil about them. All these souls, so pure, so clean, so many and not one stained by anger, malice or envy. SHADRECK CHIKOTI: SPECULATIVE FICTION IS WIDE IN ITS SCOPE Shadreck Chikoti is passionate about the development of writing in Malawi and across the African continent at large. In 2013, he started the Story Club, a gathering of like-minded enthusiasts of the arts, encompassing writing, books, criticism, filmmaking, etc. He was vice president of the Malawi Writers Union, MAWU, for a while, and alsoco-founded
THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005. JOURNEY BY NIGHT: A SHORT STORY BY BOB MAJIRIOGHENE Ah, here we go, I thought. I abandoned my scanning and passed through the checks – a man for a man, and a woman for a woman patted us up and down and let us up a flight of stairs into the coach. Other passengers were already seated by the time I was up and looking for seat number 49. Yes, there it was, and perfect! MASTHEAD - AFRICANWRITER.COM Masthead. Naza Amaeze Okoli, Editor, is a PhD student and Teaching Assistant in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi. He is co-editor of Footmarks: Poems on One Hundred Years of Nigeria’s Nationhood. He tweets @nazaokoli. Abenea Ndago, Associate Editor, is the author of Voices, a novel. An essayist, shortfiction writer
WILLIAM KHALIPWINA MPINA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM William Khalipwina Mpina is a Malawian poet, fiction writer, Economist and teacher. Many of his works appear in international literature magazines such as Atunis Poetry, African Writer, Kalahari review, Literary Shanghai, Writers Space Africa, Nthanda Review, Scribble Publication, Poetica Magazine and Expound; and in nine localanthologies.
AMONG STRANGERS: A SHORT STORY BY JUDE DIBIA Jude Dibia. Jude Dibia is a graduate of Modern European Languages (German) from the University of Ibadan. He is the author of three published works: Full Cycle was published as a novella by Hint's Thrills and Booms series in 1999. THE AFRICAN NOVEL AS A STRATEGY FOR DECOLONIZATION IN AMA In Our Sister Killjoy, the Ghanaian writer, Ama Ata Aidoo, domesticates the novel as a strategy for decolonization by re-presenting the “story of Africa”: employing a narrative style and engaging with subject matter that asserts the difference of Africa and Africans from Europeans.She subverts the discourse of Orientalism, which “constructs and dominates Orientals in the process of HARRY GARUBA: IN PRAISE OF “THE THURSDAY PEOPLE Harry Garuba who passed in February 2020 was a well-known figure on the Nigerian literary scene primarily as a mentor to many budding writers at the University of Ibadan (UI) where he taught for two decades. He also served as an assistant general secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) in addition to editing OLABIYI BABALOLA J. YAI: YORUBA STUDIES EXPERT AND Olabiyi Babalola Yai, linguist, cultural critic, philosopher, Yoruba studies expert and distinguished professor passed recently after a brief illness. His death on December 5, 2020, is huge loss to his family members and numerous friends and associates all over the world for several reasons, the most obvious being that he possessed deep reserves of knowledge SOLOMON UHIARA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Red with anger, the king banished / the alien pilots, and ate the crashed birds, / and his body turned into a machine The Sacred Machinic Transformation The YAA’S LEGACY: UNDER THE ODUM TREE Opoku, then known as Emmanuel, was one of the shining lights of the village. A precocious child, who having the dual fortune of being born male, and into a family of cocoa farmers, was sent to school under the big odum tree run by the Presbyterian catechist. Spotting the child’s precociousness and his ability to grasp concepts faster thanany
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EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING off my breath without hiccup I seek. the bliss of suffusion, as in please. kiss me in the rain one more time. before you disappear. I want to laugh whenever you say I love you. over the phone. all poets know the metaphor of loss. how the earth, happy to TRENDS IN THE LITERATURE OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS Also, Munachim Amah won the Writivism Short Story Prize. But Arimah is among a number of young diaspora writers whose achievements this year also drew international attention to Nigerian literature. For her debut collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the THE 21ST CENTURY AFRICAN AS A COSMOPOLITAN INDIVIDUAL IN A cosmopolitan individual is defined as someone who shows cultural diversity by exhibiting the influence of many countries and cultures. Taiye Tuakli-Wosomu uses the term “afropolitan” to refer to cosmopolitans of African origin. FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN NIGERIAN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY BY NIGERIAN literature, beginning with pre-independence publications of Amos Tutuola’s The Palmwine Drinkard (1952) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) depict literatures of masculinity. Put differently, the greatness of these novels and others like them, are emphasized in the physical prowess of their protagonists, a virtue attributed to pre-colonial Nigerian societies. The period THE WHISPERING TREES: A SHORT STORY BY ABUBAKAR ADAM Butterflies drifted between the tree trunks, dancing and bursting into incandescent colours, sapphire lights glinting off their wings. The souls of the trees were so pure and homely without a hint of evil about them. All these souls, so pure, so clean, so many and not one stained by anger, malice or envy. SHADRECK CHIKOTI: SPECULATIVE FICTION IS WIDE IN ITS SCOPE Shadreck Chikoti is passionate about the development of writing in Malawi and across the African continent at large. In 2013, he started the Story Club, a gathering of like-minded enthusiasts of the arts, encompassing writing, books, criticism, filmmaking, etc. He was vice president of the Malawi Writers Union, MAWU, for a while, and alsoco-founded
THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005.AFRICAN WRITER
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EYITAYO ONIFADE: AN ALLEGORY We began with an attempt to tell a story of a lifetime. Since then we have become a story of lifetimes. But I don’t think I ever told the story of us authored by the ancestors. Our story begins long before you tapped me on the shoulder a year ago. It started when you returned PAMILERIN JACOB: THERE IS A METAPHOR FOR EVERYTHING off my breath without hiccup I seek. the bliss of suffusion, as in please. kiss me in the rain one more time. before you disappear. I want to laugh whenever you say I love you. over the phone. all poets know the metaphor of loss. how the earth, happy to TRENDS IN THE LITERATURE OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS Also, Munachim Amah won the Writivism Short Story Prize. But Arimah is among a number of young diaspora writers whose achievements this year also drew international attention to Nigerian literature. For her debut collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the THE 21ST CENTURY AFRICAN AS A COSMOPOLITAN INDIVIDUAL IN A cosmopolitan individual is defined as someone who shows cultural diversity by exhibiting the influence of many countries and cultures. Taiye Tuakli-Wosomu uses the term “afropolitan” to refer to cosmopolitans of African origin. FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN NIGERIAN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY BY NIGERIAN literature, beginning with pre-independence publications of Amos Tutuola’s The Palmwine Drinkard (1952) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) depict literatures of masculinity. Put differently, the greatness of these novels and others like them, are emphasized in the physical prowess of their protagonists, a virtue attributed to pre-colonial Nigerian societies. The period THE WHISPERING TREES: A SHORT STORY BY ABUBAKAR ADAM Butterflies drifted between the tree trunks, dancing and bursting into incandescent colours, sapphire lights glinting off their wings. The souls of the trees were so pure and homely without a hint of evil about them. All these souls, so pure, so clean, so many and not one stained by anger, malice or envy. SHADRECK CHIKOTI: SPECULATIVE FICTION IS WIDE IN ITS SCOPE Shadreck Chikoti is passionate about the development of writing in Malawi and across the African continent at large. In 2013, he started the Story Club, a gathering of like-minded enthusiasts of the arts, encompassing writing, books, criticism, filmmaking, etc. He was vice president of the Malawi Writers Union, MAWU, for a while, and alsoco-founded
THE REVOLUTION HAS NO TRIBE: POEMS BY DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE Dike Chukwumerije. I studied Law at the University of Abuja between 1996 and 2001 and attended the Nigerian Law School in 2002/2003. I went on to obtain a masters degree in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2005. JOURNEY BY NIGHT: A SHORT STORY BY BOB MAJIRIOGHENE Ah, here we go, I thought. I abandoned my scanning and passed through the checks – a man for a man, and a woman for a woman patted us up and down and let us up a flight of stairs into the coach. Other passengers were already seated by the time I was up and looking for seat number 49. Yes, there it was, and perfect! MASTHEAD - AFRICANWRITER.COM Masthead. Naza Amaeze Okoli, Editor, is a PhD student and Teaching Assistant in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi. He is co-editor of Footmarks: Poems on One Hundred Years of Nigeria’s Nationhood. He tweets @nazaokoli. Abenea Ndago, Associate Editor, is the author of Voices, a novel. An essayist, shortfiction writer
WILLIAM KHALIPWINA MPINA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM William Khalipwina Mpina is a Malawian poet, fiction writer, Economist and teacher. Many of his works appear in international literature magazines such as Atunis Poetry, African Writer, Kalahari review, Literary Shanghai, Writers Space Africa, Nthanda Review, Scribble Publication, Poetica Magazine and Expound; and in nine localanthologies.
AMONG STRANGERS: A SHORT STORY BY JUDE DIBIA Jude Dibia. Jude Dibia is a graduate of Modern European Languages (German) from the University of Ibadan. He is the author of three published works: Full Cycle was published as a novella by Hint's Thrills and Booms series in 1999. THE AFRICAN NOVEL AS A STRATEGY FOR DECOLONIZATION IN AMA In Our Sister Killjoy, the Ghanaian writer, Ama Ata Aidoo, domesticates the novel as a strategy for decolonization by re-presenting the “story of Africa”: employing a narrative style and engaging with subject matter that asserts the difference of Africa and Africans from Europeans.She subverts the discourse of Orientalism, which “constructs and dominates Orientals in the process of HARRY GARUBA: IN PRAISE OF “THE THURSDAY PEOPLE Harry Garuba who passed in February 2020 was a well-known figure on the Nigerian literary scene primarily as a mentor to many budding writers at the University of Ibadan (UI) where he taught for two decades. He also served as an assistant general secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) in addition to editing OLABIYI BABALOLA J. YAI: YORUBA STUDIES EXPERT AND Olabiyi Babalola Yai, linguist, cultural critic, philosopher, Yoruba studies expert and distinguished professor passed recently after a brief illness. His death on December 5, 2020, is huge loss to his family members and numerous friends and associates all over the world for several reasons, the most obvious being that he possessed deep reserves of knowledge SOLOMON UHIARA, AUTHOR AT AFRICANWRITER.COM Red with anger, the king banished / the alien pilots, and ate the crashed birds, / and his body turned into a machine The Sacred Machinic Transformation The YAA’S LEGACY: UNDER THE ODUM TREE Opoku, then known as Emmanuel, was one of the shining lights of the village. A precocious child, who having the dual fortune of being born male, and into a family of cocoa farmers, was sent to school under the big odum tree run by the Presbyterian catechist. Spotting the child’s precociousness and his ability to grasp concepts faster thanany
WHY WESTERN DONORS SHOULD INVESTIGATE KWANI? TRUST’S Something interesting happened in America this year. Harriet Tubman began having her picture on the $20 bill. That’s an extremely bold step. In the Africa of our times, it can only be compared to President Macky Sall, who recently tried to reduce the presidential term limit in Senegal. In Kenyan terms, the cultural symbolism of* Our Authors
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