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with Vamba Sherif

I was returning home after 20 years, and the man who was driving me there turned out to be an ex-rebel. The last time I saw Kolahun, my birthplace in Liberia, was in 1990 ...

Poetry

Zino Asalor

I give you a look
You smile, rising

You smile at me
I rise, dreaming
Only of lying down

Fiction

Jackee Batanda

‘Will you like to talk about this?’
You nod and the words come gushing out. She takes notes. She recommends that you need to take the day off. It is a Friday.

Cover Interview

Obi Nwakanma evokes
Chris Okigbo in a new Biography

'she
told me the loveliest story
of Okigbo’s seduction of
her in the 1950s. She of
course swore me to silence.'

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Publisher & Editor:	Chuma Nwokolo
Creative Non-Fiction Editor:	Chika Unigwe
Fiction Editor:	Brian Chikwava
Poetry Editor:	Lola Shoneyin
Contributing Editors:	Vamba Sherif
	Isabella Morris
	Ovo Adagha
	Zukiswa Wanner
Reviewers:	Tola Ositelu
	Peter W. Vakunta
Editorial Board:	Firoze Manji
	Abdourahman Waberi
	Conrad James
	Geoff Ryman
	Pius Adesanmi
Magazine Art:	Talal Hasan An-Nayer
Academy Peer Review Editor:	David Mastey
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	Ivor W. Hartmann
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