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Poets from Uganda, Nigeria, and Malawi have emerged as winners in the maiden edition of the Boxing Day Spoken Word Concert organized by Writers Space Africa (WSA) and hosted by Anthony Onugba. [...]

Far off in the future once upon— A lone mbulu feather blown-swirl by the wind gently lands on the might-peak of a Hill. There and near; an old, dry-lipped man with an- antique stick sat beside me [...]

We are branches of one vine, The African Vine, We are rooted in fertile soil, The African soil. We are descendants of the Bantu, Products of the spirit of Ubuntu, With heads held high we march [...]

  In this Edition of the Writers Space Africa Magazine, I am privileged to chat with the Queen of Flash Fiction all the way from Kenya. Make welcome, Scholar Akinyi.     [...]

Air filled with hearsay, That when wind blows speak, I lead myself out to the hill, A trial to pick some words. Climbing high to the top, Experiencing the strongest, From there I just see [...]

Everybody is going to see the water edging towards the town’s major civilization: a blue-painted hotel which is a few metres away from the lake’s pavilion. And she’s here to see too. She’s our [...]

I write this poem to tell a story. Yesternight, after the sun retired to bed, My sister and I were still awake; Sitting at the foot of the mighty Iroko tree, Alongside some other children and a [...]

Nenrot rose frantically from the chair he had sunk into and, in like manner, started roaming about the house in search of something. He walked to the kitchen, saw the neat collection of knives, [...]

I’ve got a story to tell. I’d pour it through my black lips, I’d pour it as gently as it fell from my father’s Like petals falling off the tree. O child, come here and listen. Beneath your feet [...]

The mud crawled into their mouth and nostrils as they clawed their way through a mass of dead soldiers, covered in the once warm blood. The night was a blanket of black stretching out across the [...]