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       McKaiser
Anietie Isong
Dike
       Chukwumerije
Chinelo Achebe-
       Ejeyueitche
Akin Adesokan
Tolu Ogunlesi
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Eghosa Imasuen
Mpalive Msiska
Roi Kwabena
Emmanuel
       Sigauke
Nnedi Okoroafor-
        Mbachu
George E. Clarke
Kimyia Varzi
Obemata
Uche Nduka
Amatoritsero Ede
Obododimma Oha
Leila Aboulela
James Whyle
Koye Oyedeji
Obiwu
Becky Clarke
Nike Adesuyi
Derek Petersen
Afam Akeh
Olutola Ositelu
V. Ehikhamenor
Molara Wood
Chime Hilary
Wumi Raji
Chuma Nwokolo

Welcome
to October's

, to our usual offerings from across Africa and her diaspora: Botswana, Sudan, Malawi, Gambia, Jamaica, South Africa, & Ghana... diverse Africana from twelve countries, three continents,...

African Writing in Britain
Read our special package on that peculiar beast, Black British Writing. .... outstanding writers surveyed.

Socks Ball
Nii Parkes hails back to teenage Ghana for this schoolyard tale of 'football' and wit

		THE SOUTH AFRICAN PREVIEW The next issue of will have a distinctly South African flavour. Here is a foretaste:

	And the Dead Watch Over Us James Whyle on his days in the apartheid army... new excerpt from a brutally honest autobiography

South African Hunger & Literary Excess Obiwu examines South African literature through a rereading of Roy Campbell, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee

	Shades of the New South Africa Short Story offering from Eusebius McKaiser, until lately a research student at Oxford, now back in South Africa

Recommended Reading

A Feast of Short Fiction
Fifteen tales of the abbreviated kind, from Akin Adesokan to Agusto; from creek-country to myth-making...

Lessing Wins the Nobel
Doris Lessing is the 2007 Nobel Prize laureate for Literature.

The Empty Space on the Paper
Bleak Botswanan Short Story from Lauri Kubuitsile

Bus 73
New talent, Dike Chukwumerije stakes a confident claim with this haunting story. You won't be reading novels on the bus after this..

SABLE Lit Fest in Pictures
Molara Wood brings this photostudy of the 2nd SABLE International Litfest which took place in the Gambia

I Return to Okigbo
Afam Akeh on his love for Chris Okigbo's poetry. A 50th Anniversary Special Essay.

Juncture
Long poem from Trinidadian, Roi Kwabena, former poet-laureate of Birmingham.

eel on reef
pieces of poetry from Uche Nduka's new collection

The Sea Warrior
'Crossover' drama from Caine Prize winner, Leila Aboulela, published here for the first time.

Ali Mazrui stirs Okigbo's Nest
Old controversy recurs at Chris Okigbo Conference


Take Our Quiz! Do you know your Zephaniah from your Binta Breeze? Is The Famished Road a Bulawayo address? Test your knowledge of African-British Writing. Answers provided

Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Pipe Still Puffing The poet Jack Mapanje reminisces about his executed friend, ten years on

Asunder
Fantasy fiction from Nnedi Okoroafor-Mbachu, author of Zahrah the Windseeker

Tales by Conversation.
A policeman finds his eureka moment under an orange tree, in another conversational tale from Chuma Nwokolo

Books worth rereading?
considers Meja Mwangi's The Plague in this new feature.

The Swallowers
Kola Boof's edgy new story plumbs an alternate reality. For strong hearts only!

The Jacaranda Tree
Short fiction from Chinelo Achebe-Ejueyitche, Chinua Achebe's daughter

Art and Photography...
in a happy marriage with Victor Ehikhamenor