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TEN QUESTIONS With Zukiswa Wanner

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  • Ten Questions (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 9, 2023
Where do you consider home and why? This entire continent. From Cape to Cairo, from Morocco to Madagascar and all the African islands that are

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TEN QUESTIONS With Ciku Kimeria

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  • Ten Questions (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 9, 2023
Where do you consider home and why? Nairobi, Kenya. I travel a lot and have lived in different places. Most recently, six years in Senegal, but

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TEN QUESTIONS With Véronique Tadjo

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  • Ten Questions (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 9, 2023
Where do you consider home and why? Côte d’Ivoire, because that’s where I grew up.  List three words or phrases that come to mind when you think

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TEN QUESTIONS With Elohor Egbordi

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  • Ten Questions (Ake Review 2022)
  • Jan 9, 2023
Where do you consider home and why? Home isn’t a place. For me, it’s a feeling. Home is wherever I feel free, at peace and accepted.

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Birthday Elegy

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jul 28, 2020
Birthday Elegy (For the families of ET 302 victims)     1. & what poem shall we give to comfort the girl by the windowsill awaiting

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Preferred

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jul 28, 2020
Preferred     It is a preference, My preference, To keep my sides shaved close, And my high top high, When stepping fresh out of the

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Prozac

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jul 28, 2020
 Prozac   The wave of nausea pushes her forward, further into the toilet bowl. The yellow bile with the crumbly white powder from the Prozac

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To The Awkward Adolescent Nigerian Male

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jul 28, 2020
To The Awkward Adolescent Nigerian Male   Praise your magnificent dark skin glory Praise your magnificent fair skin glory Praise your can’t

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Besties

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jul 28, 2020
Besties   My childhood best friend was fat. She was also light-skinned. So, she was fat, But beautiful. I was dark-skinned. That was it.

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Curvaceous Black Sappho in White Shoes – By Ali Znaidi

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jul 28, 2020
Curvaceous Black Sappho in White Shoes     (After Nona Faustine’s Photograph, “From My Body I Will Make Monuments In Your

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