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As part of our drive to promote and encourage the writing, reading, publication and popularity of African literary works, Writers Space Africa Magazine is introducing an interview corner where we [...]

Dry and ugly, Shrinky… A tumble thin stalk Easily blown. Ashen and producing Flash when burnt, Dingy and frail. Poverty adorns me; Wind greedily pushes me To a place of no destiny Grisly [...]

I flipped over this book Where tensions create lines And birth their offspring. These pages have deaths, terrors And readers gulp grievances Like morning coffee. Those faces that giggled [...]

Life’s a revolution From misery To a rebirth Of great power. From rejuvenation Via reconciliation Through to transition, Overcome fear. And of all promises, Wander from lust Wade to [...]

Vultures in doves Some, in Tarshish groves were hashed Looking for means to make their purses swell Leaving the common people in pains, with the men in guns As they daily plead with them to let [...]

You know, some folks were once convicts; Convicts of circumstances they acceded to They walk with a murky history of a felon, A shameful label of a haunting downfall. They’ve been to the opposite [...]

I was blind at the sight of light At a wink, pleasure won over integrity and sanity It breaks me every time; Memories of that dark night Just then, I felt these chilled winds I couldn’t find my [...]

A river that flows clean and wide Is a river that is bold enough It feels like a song when it roars With calmness it talks about freedom; It is a river that knows its direction It never quarrels [...]

It’s another day of festivities- Or whatever you call a gathering of crows around a carcass. A chicken glazed in scarlet sauce lies unmoving on a golden platter. But it’s not the only dead thing [...]

He was not a gardener He broke stems, plucked petals, devoured her whole So, she bloomed like a belladonna as he swallowed She was the wreath they hung on his unmarked grave. He was no poet [...]