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with Vamba Sherif

Vamba Sherif arrives home in Kolahun

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

Zino Asalor

I give you a look
You smile, rising

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

Fiction

Jackee Batanda

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

Chris Okigbo

'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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