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Poetry

Isoje Iyi-Eweka Chou
Monday Morning...

Monday morning in Brooklyn is
Not monday morning in Lagos
But it is close

Fiction

Ibrahim al-Koni
The Teacher

... freeing the slaves was not easy. They chose to reject freedom and gathered in the plain instead... hurling curses and stones.

Cover Interview

Pius Adesanmi,
The Militant Intellection Complex

'Public intellection is not a new thing in Africa. The only new dimension is the increasing appropriation of the internet as a space of public intellection'

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Welcome to our eleventh edition. FLASH PRIZE Inaugural, free-to enter, award for very short fiction closes soon. Guidelines here: FICTION Sesotho Speakers, Ret'sepile Makamane Bad Hair Day, Tendai Huchu The Teacher, Ibrahim al-Koni. Dodo is Yoruba for Fried Plantain, F. Fetto Befriending a Lie, Christian Uwe Invisible Woman, Mamle Kabu Making Corrections, Bashir Adan The Wonderful Amazing, No. 1 Recliner, Elaine Chiew MEMOIR My Son is a Story, Juliane Okot-Bitek	POETRY Malika Assal Ayodele Morroco-Clarke Stephen John Rae Isoje Iyi-Eweka Chou, Monday morning.. Isaac Anyaogu Ryan Eric Lamb Essia Skhiri Magdalawit Makonnen, Wheat on Grass
	ESSAYS Author for Sale, Sarah Ladipo Manyika A Brief Word on Poetry, K.W. Kgositsile Know your Classics PlaceNames, Martin Ramos blogs: Daily posts from our writers
	INTERVIEWS Tendai Huchu Pius Adesanmi, Militant Intellection Complex Ellen Banda-Aaku
	BOOK BRIEFS & REVIEWS How to Euthanise a Cactus, S.D.P. 2nd Book Syndrome, Tola Ositelu A View from the North, Marcia Lynx Qualey The Rock at the Centre of my Heart, D.K. Precious; A True Story, Tola Ositelu Books Worth ReReading, Zukiswa Wanner Comic Heights, Geoff Ryman