by Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arówólò | Oct 22, 2021 | Poems
this is what i have gathered to offer everyone who visits me these days—a mural of perpetual grief, a map showing multiple states of sorrow. another palestinian returns home stretched on a berth of grief with a stray bullet crevicing his skull. on the TV, a lady...
by Festus Obehi Destiny | Oct 15, 2021 | Fiction
Mad Man Timo used to come to our window after a heavy downpour and place his penis in between our louvers. He ran around the neighbourhood naked. He grabbed women by the butt and suffered slaps whenever he reached for a man’s crotch. He would roll in the PotoPoto and...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Oct 12, 2021 | Gist Corner
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has become the seventh African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature after Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka in 1986, Egypt’s Naguib Mahfouz in 1988, South Africa’s Nadine Gordimer in 1991, South Africa’s J.M. Coetzee in 2003,...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Oct 12, 2021 | Gist Corner
Dear fans of Jordan Ifueko, we bring you good news! Jordan Ifueko’s YA fantasy novel Raybearer is going to be adapted into a series by Netflix. The novel tells the story of a child with a mysterious upbringing. There is no release date yet. The adaptation is still in...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Oct 12, 2021 | Gist Corner
The 2021 shortlists for the Morland Writing Scholarships for African Writers has been announced. This year’s shortlist includes nine Nigerians, four South Africans, two Zambians, one Ghanaian, one Kenyan, one Ugandan, one Namibian, and two Batswana writers. Widely...
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