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He flipped through my passport again, alternating each page turn with a dissatisfied glance at me. “You come here to buy clothes for business?” “No, I’m here on holiday,” I retorted. “You come here alone?” “Yes!” Aklile Teklé | You come here alone? africanwriter.com/aklile-tekle-y…

To be a girl, is me dissecting my heart into four unequal fragments. 1, a residue for my father’s disgust. 2, an inheritance of my mother’s pain. 3, for the man I loved... Victor Obukata | Girlhood africanwriter.com/victor-obukata…

Congratulations Abigail George Celebrating Abigail George: An Unsung Literary Achievement moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/01/06/cel…

War may be business, you tell yourself, but these women are not collateral. They were mothers, sisters, aunts, daughters, neighbors, friends, humans, with dreams and goals... lives that are mourned in whispers... Ibrahim Williams | Memorial for the Unsung africanwriter.com/ibrahim-willia…

The woman who forgets all about me is my sister. Across the valley she is as pale as milk, this raw honey of a religious meditation, this daughter of a gun... Abigail George Abigail George | Saturday Evening Ephemera africanwriter.com/abigail-george…

I was young, living in a city where my grandfather had been dead since the 1970s. As a result, I still hadn’t come across many people who knew who he and my grandmother had been... ‘Shèun Ominira-Bluejack | Of Old Renown africanwriter.com/sheun-ominira-…

If you ring me up at 4am and I still don’t answer... If you direly want to speak, and you’re tempted to send me a text Please don’t say you love me, I won’t believe it... Dejido Bejide | Running Crazy africanwriter.com/dejido-bejide-…

It has been four years since Bayo tried to hold me, three years since I saw home, two years since I saw you, my sister. Mama’s death was not the only thing I lost that year... Damilola Ogunrinde | Sighs and Silent Nights africanwriter.com/damilola-ogunr…

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My short story, 'The Dying Light of Day', is on African Writers Magazine. I'm grateful to the editors for giving it a home. africanwriter.com/ridwan-badamas… via African Writer Magazine

I have 3 poems out of the African Writers Magazine. Marial Awendit | The Infinittians africanwriter.com/marial-awendit… via African Writer Magazine

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It tears my heart to say that my father, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o passed away earlier today. I am me because of him in so many ways, as his child, scholar and writer. I love him - I am not sure what tomorrow will bring without him here. I think that is all I have to say for now.

Thank you African Writer Magazine For publishing these piece. I'm honoured Ruth Titus Sum | Am I Healed Enough to be Vulnerable? africanwriter.com/ruth-titus-sum…