African Writing Magazine; Many Literatures, One Voice; Home page, Issue No 10

PlaceNames

with Vamba Sherif

I was returning home after 20 years, and the man who was driving me there turned out to be an ex-rebel. The last time I saw Kolahun, my birthplace in Liberia, was in 1990 ...

Poetry

Zino Asalor

I give you a look
You smile, rising

You smile at me
I rise, dreaming
Only of lying down

Fiction

Jackee Batanda

‘Will you like to talk about this?’
You nod and the words come gushing out. She takes notes. She recommends that you need to take the day off. It is a Friday.

Cover Interview

Obi Nwakanma evokes
Chris Okigbo in a new Biography

'she
told me the loveliest story
of Okigbo’s seduction of
her in the 1950s. She of
course swore me to silence.'

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Welcome to 10; FICTION La Bodega, Nii Ayikwei Parkes On Invisibility, Magdalene Bowley The Book of Salamanders, Obi Nwakanma Tales by Conversation, Chuma Nwokolo Doing Nothing, Jackee Budesta Batanda The Times, Dango Mkandawire Burning the Beans, Michael Onile-Ere INTERVIEWS Ato Quayson; Obi Nwakanma, (cover; excerpt) Bryony Rheam News : in new partnership with Manchester University.	POETRY Zino Asalor, Three Poems Danielle Taana Smith, Hide and Seek Annette Quarcopoome, 31-Word Poems Ovo Adagha, Fade Fungai Machirori, Collapse Ipelo, Untitled J.K.S. Makokha, Tongues of Flame Mandy Mitchell, Four Poems Stephen Derwent Partington, Three Poems
	IDEAS Forecasting the Death of Fiction, Brian Chikwava No Longer at Ease in Antwerp, Han Schippers. Footing with the Ancestors, Andie Miller Knowing your Classics PlaceNames: Kolahun, Vamba Sherif
	THE ACADEMY Christopher Anyoku “Past is prologue”: English, Metafiction and the Postcolonial Condition in Karen King-Aribisala’s The Hangman’s Game Peter W. Vakunta: Aporia: Ngugi’s Fatalistic Logic of the Unassailable Position of Indigenous Languages in African Literature
	BOOK BRIEFS & REVIEWS A Fine Madness Strength in What Remains African Roar Dreams in a Time of War