By Jennifer Emelife Chinenye  I was in the staff room working on my pupils’ lesson notes when it occurred to me that I hadn’t checked my email in two days. My Android tablet had issues so I wasn’t getting email notifications. Putting away my lesson books, I switched on my laptop and looked through my … More How to Find Out If You Need a Vibration – Or Vibrator to Write

It has been three months of 2016 already. How have you liked everything we have served you here?  Besides serving you interviews, features, opinions, lists, reviews and news plus announcements from our programme activities, we have been feasting on various internet servings. Can you imagine having an orgasm, and while you are in that heaven … More Quarterly Review: Godly sex, Osondu’s village and Lawino’s ‘heterogeneity’.

The Kenya-based Jalada collective has a new anthology out. Titled The Upright Revolution: or Why Humans Walk Upright, the anthology technically comprises one story. The magic is the translation. One story told in more than thirty languages. The original story Ituĩka Rĩa Mũrũngarũ: Kana Kĩrĩa Gĩtũmaga Andũ Mathiĩ Marũngiĩ in Kikuyu is by Ngũgĩ wa … More 8 Reasons we are Excited about the Jalada #TranslationIssue

By: Samira Sawlani Writer’s note: This list is just a snapshot of the poetry talent currently thriving in the African Continent, not included are the numerous poets whose poetry takes form in African languages or those that are based in Francophone Countries. Across the African continent, poetry has been part of tradition embedded in various … More Ten Contemporary Poets in Sub-Saharan Africa