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Notice me, I pass here every day Whistle, I’ll smile in my heart Though my face will wear an angry look Pause, Observe my steps Wink at me, As I throw my buttocks Left and right Stop me, Use [...]

Welcome to another interesting edition of the Writers Space Africa Magazine. This month, we will be chatting with the winner of the 2021 African Writers Award (Drama category). Let us welcome [...]

Lost in the labyrinth of thoughts, Ikem drifted from their usual evening conversation. He sailed from the throaty laughter of Nnedi; the tiny, chiming, and penetrative voice of Ekene, and he saw [...]

You tell me to turn into the oncoming corner of Nyamwezi Street. I’m too late to react and drive past the dirt road sparsely packed with cars. As I slow down, a blaring horn goes off behind me. A [...]

If you were like me, a 21-year-old sassy and trending Burundian influencer whose phone is about to die and is stranded on a road trip with an eccentric and nearly-dysfunctional family, you would [...]

I stood in the heart of Ajagbá with anger like a juggled bottle of coke ready to burst because one of the Danfo drivers just spattered mud all over my once sparkling white go out dress. I have [...]

I finally know But I’m looking at a rocky, rugged path The fear shears my skin but yet You can’t see a rivulet of my tears So much is unknown Should I walk or run? If I hoped onto the wings of a [...]

Now the bus finally halts; My turn to get off Wish it’d be much longer A bit sad I must walk out, Met a few characters ‘long the way Coming in and getting off Made me forget where I came from And [...]

My skin feels heavy on my bones, an altar of withering daffodils. Somewhere in Somalia a boy moulds himself into haram salaam alaikum and he goes out in search of nothing, finding home in bodies [...]

As I lie here on the tiled floor of an old rent room I dream of the pages unknown … The speed of Rufiji river and the roars of mikumi lions, The cold breeze of Kilimanjaro and the bottom of [...]