Mumbi Kanyogo on Wambui Otieno, KLFA (the Mau Mau), Amilcar Cabral, and merging with the masses in anti-colonial struggle. alonghouse.com/solidarity-as-…

“... I can understand Borgesʼs blind love for Buenos Aires, how a man feels the streets of a city swell in his hand.” —Derek Walcott, Midsummer

In his essay “J.M. Coetzee vs. English,” Carey Baraka writes boldly about the flaws and ineffectual gestures in Coetzee’s project—advanced through Speaking in Tongues and El Polaco—to dismantle the global dominance of English in literature and publishing. thedial.world/articles/news/…

Submissions still open to “Chronic.” Do check the requirements and send in your work. alonghouse.com/chronic-call-f…

A Short Talk: Ani Kayode Somtochukwu talks to Yvonne Wabai about the personal costs of truth-telling, the colonial roots of queerphobia, the radical potential of queer friendship, and the clarity that comes from choosing courage over conformity. alonghouse.com/a-short-talk-w…

“There are so many quiet joys separate from the accolades, like when I finish something, and I knew right away that it was beautiful.” —Mubanga Kalimamukwento in conversation with Sihle Ntuli. Read the latest edition of A Short Talk alonghouse.com/__trashed-2/

"I am moved by these swaggering bodies, dressed in their finest, walking to houses that look only seven feet high. I envy the ardour in their gait, a lack of hurry, as if by walking they possess a piece of the earth. I want to be these men." —Emmanuel Iduma, A Stranger’s Pose

“Much as I admired Mother, I was afraid that, if the passive-aggressive tension between her and Uncle Usama escalated into an open verbal confrontation, it had the potential to get ugly.” —Mohammed Naseehu Ali newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

A Short Talk: In this edition, the 7th, 2025 Rajat Neogy editorial fellow Sihle Ntuli had an exchange with the South African writer Zukiswa Wanner about the novel, pan-Africanist literature, writer wellness, and social justice. alonghouse.com/a-short-talk-w…

A good day for Edward P. Jones newyorker.com/magazine/2004/…

Thrilled to share that I had a heartfelt conversation with Abu Bakr As-Siddique, where we discussed about life, writing, our books, worries, Nigeria, and more. Grateful to Sihle Ntuli for curating this thoughtful exchange for A Long House. Read the full piece here: alonghouse.com/a-long-talk-ab…

What more is there to say but to call the poet what he was: The Islander. newyorker.com/magazine/2004/…

A Long Talk: No. 9 In this stimulating conversation, poets Abu Bakr Sadiq and Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto discuss writing as a practice of facing the difficult truths of the Nigerian situation and of one's personal histories, among other necessary things. alonghouse.com/a-long-talk-ab…

Read the poems of Abu Bakr Sadiq and Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto on A Long House. Abu Bakr Sadiq: alonghouse.com/dotage/

Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto: alonghouse.com/three-poems-2/

“He’d been defending his ma, trying to be a man. We stood in the road, and my father talked about jazz, how sometimes a tune is born of outrage.” —Terrance Hayes, “The Golden Shovel” poetryfoundation.org/poems/55678/th…

“It is always easier to conquer a more humane people.”—Half of a Yellow Sun. Is it?

A Long Talk: No. 10 Read this conversation between the poets Jeremy Teddy Karn and Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, where they speak about poetry, wellness, the African Poetry Book Fund (APBF), home, and the work of bearing witness. alonghouse.com/a-long-talk-a-…

Jeremy & I spoke, like we normally do when on a call. Read it here.

A Long House's third issue is open for submissions! And the theme selected for the issue is "Homelessness." For this issue, we seek writing that, with tender yet unflinching language, bears witness to the condition and humanity of the homeless. alonghouse.com/call-for-submi…