African Writing Online; Home Page; Issue Six

Akin Adesokan
Amatoritsero Ede
Angela Nwosu
A. Quarcoopome
Aryan Kaganof
Chi Onyemelukwe
Chuma Nwokolo
David Chislett
Domi Chirongo
Eyitemi Egwuenu
Firoze Manji
Gabriel Okara
Grace Kim
Isabella Morris
JKS Makokha
Kangsen Wakai
Khumbu. Mpofu
Khaled Khamissi
Linda Saunders
M. Mashigoane
James Currey
Noelle Bolou
Nourdin Bejjit
Ondjaki
Okey Nwamadi
Patricia J. Wesley
Paula Akugizibwe
Phephelaphi Dube
Rassool Snyman
Sonja Porle
Sumaila Umaisha
Uche Nduka
Uduak Isong O.

         Credits:
   Ntone Edjabe
   Rudolf Okonkwo
   Tolu Ogunlesi
   Yomi Ola
   Molara Wood

Warning Shots
...sound from peacetime Mozambique... a short story and two poems from Domi Chirongo

Cracked
A new tale from Commonwealth Short Story competition winner, Uduak Isong Oguamanam

Poems of Conscience
From Rassool Synman, South African poet

Unrubberized
Leading Nigerian poet, Uche Nduka, with two prose poems

Child's Play
A spot of urban warfare; short fiction with David Chislett

A New Pan-Africanism

The first part of a conversation with Pambazuka News' Firoze Manji

The Teacher
Phephelaphi Dube's very short fiction of a teacher's turmoils

Street Life in Ouagadougou
Slovenian writer, Sonja Porle, on a journey through Burkina Faso

A Sedate Revolution
Okey Nwamadi's Silent Waters reviewed

Minshinii

Tender love turns steelly in Annette Quarcoopome's story from Ghana

The Last Call
Kenyan writer, JKS Makokha, in a moving tribute to the unknown phone

Angus of God
A rural teacher builds an unexpected friendship in this Linda Colleen Saunders story

Asaba's Comprehensive Rains
Hometown poetry reprises a genocide of the Biafran war

No. 6 is our special War and Peace Issue, with contributions on the theme — from essays through poetry — from seventeen countries across Africa and her Diaspora. Welcome,

's Cover Essay

Squatter Camp
Isabella Morris reviews the art of Zimbabwean artist, Khumbulani Mpofu

Glock for Sale
Aryan Kaganof and friend are mugged in Jo'burg's urban jungle. Good thing he is packing his pistol. Or is it?

Where have all the Years Gone?
asks Patricia Jabbeh Wesley as she returns to a Liberian homeland laid waste by war

Rumours of War
Cameroonian writer, Kangsen Feka Wakai remembers his father's arrest during his Bamenda schooldays


	Ti-Jean Beats the Devil Akin Adesokan, on Barack Obama

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Things Fall Apart at 50; Features

AWS, Chinua Achebe & all Those Books III
Morroccan scholar, Nourdin Bejjit wraps up his conversation with James Currey in the final of a 3-part interview

Testimonials
Upon first reading Things Fall Apart . Snap reactions from Amatoritsero Ede and Cheluchii Onyemelukwe

Reconciliation
Four poems from Rwandan-Ugandan writer, Paula Akugizibwe

A Splash of Glory
Poems from Angela Amalonye Nwosu, with intimations of angels and eternity

The Call
A sequence of six poems from Nigerian poet, Eyitemi Egwuenu

A Family Affair
A junketing father is reduced to domestic circumstances, in this short story by Nigeria's Ayobami Adebayo

Tales by Conversation
A special conversational tale for the War and Peace edition of

. Plus, links to back issues

Grace Kim

Korean-South African poet presents a collection of insightful images in poetry

A Sister's Chant
Urban warfare. Short story from Mncedisi Mashigoane: a wife in xenophobic South Africa launders her husband's guilt

Dambudzo

Tales a Cabbie told me
2 tales from the Cairo Streets from Egyptian writer & film producer, Khaled Al Khamissi

		I decided on the girl in reception, Grace. I had seen the way she looked at me. Zukiswa