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Remembering Defining moments in Africa.

  • Featured, Fiction, South Africa, vol. 5, war, conflicts & disaster

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He had wanted to work at Daily Mail or Drum, but the bureaucratic hurdles of the National Party had frustrated his efforts of getting a...
  • Featured, Fiction, identity & belonging, Mozambique, vol. 5

What the Grass Remembers

Her mother said he was taken. Her uncle said he ran. Her aunt said he was found dead near the Pungwe River, and that someone...
  • Featured, Fiction, identity & belonging, Tanzania, vol. 5

A Land With No Spirits

I ran straight to where they all lay. I did not care if those monsters were still near and could hear me. I stretched my...

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God Mercy

What the Ugba Tree Remembers

Fragments of a Protest

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My Fire Story

When Life Pressed Pause

Something in the Water

Something in the Water

"We are all amateur historians with various degrees of awareness about our production."

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

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The Women from the Gold Coast

Sunsets Are for Goodbyes

The scorching afternoon sun beat down on our skin as we continued under it. Our hands soon intertwined on the busy streets of Sabon Gari,...

Red + Yellow Should Be Orange

We talked about everything—our other friends and school, but I never told her about the rumble in my chest whenever she walked into the church...

The Women from the Gold Coast

As the night winds enveloped her in a tight embrace, she did not shiver. How dare she? Everything she had spent the last year working...

Where is Akunna?

Akunna always had a funny way of scribbling her words whenever she wrote to me, particularly when she wanted financial assistance. I loved it every...

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What the Grass Remembers

A Land With No Spirits

Nzalambi

Unshackled

In the Shade of the Branch

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God Mercy

What the Ugba Tree Remembers

Fragments of a Protest

mfs

My Fire Story

When Life Pressed Pause