African Writing Online [many literatures, one voice]; Home Page; Issue Seven

Adaobi Nwaubani
Amatoritsero Ede
Ando Yeva
Ayesha H. Attah
Bobby Gawthrop
Brian Chikwava
Chuma Nwokolo
Crispin Oduobuk
Fela Kuti
Fiona Jamieson
Florence Nenakwe
Funsho Ogundipe
Genna Gardini
George E. Clarke
G.Namukasa
Grace Kim
Isabella Morris
Isobel Dixon
Ivor W. Hartmann
Jane Bryce
Kobus Moolman
Meshack Owino
Mwila A. Zaza
Patrice Nganang
Petina Gappah
Rudolf Okonkwo
Samed Aydin
Tanure Ojaide
Tola Ositelu
Uche Peter Umez
Unoma Azuah
Uzor M. Uzoatu
Wole Soyinka

Florence Beal Nenakwe

A Saturday Afternoon...
On a Tree-Lined Street in Zambia, an abandoned daughter stumbles upon her mother... a short story from Mwila A. Zaza

Nana and the Wolf
Poems from South Africa's Genna Gardini

Diary of an MFA Student-in-Residence
Writer and

intern, Rudolf Okonkwo reflects on his experiences on an American MFA programme

Hamburger
Azerbaijani journalist, Samed Aydin's short story about a homesick student

Raggedy Horses
A memoir of a life-changing childhood experience on the foothills of the Amatole Mountains. From Fiona Jamieson

African writers introduce their hometowns in our new, introspective column on emotional geography. South Africa's Grace Kim begins

Imfolozi Reserve
Five short poems from South African writer and celebrated playwright, Kobus Moolman

Dressed in a Nurse's Uniform
Uche Peter Umez reviews Voice of a Dream

Mr. Goop
Ivor Hartmann, winner of the Baobab Prize for African literature, with his winning entry

		Memento to Namesake Cameroon's Patrice Nganang, remembers Rwanda's fallen

Welcome to

No. 7, to interviews with three debut novelists and an Africanist critic, as well as our usual fare of stories, poetry and essays from across the continent and her Diaspora

Cover
A Call to Action, inspired by your responses to our Special Edition on War and Peace

101 Books to read before you die
The jury picked their favourite 20th Century books from across Africa; now, nominate your own modern classics


Four Interviews





Museveni as Nyamgondho Meshack Owino's East African allegory

Orange Crush
A Chuma Nwokolo short story; nine years in the life of an obsessive horticulturist

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Tributes

	Finessing the grooves For afro jazz composer, Funsho Ogundipe, Fela's creative process was as iconic as his music

The Essential Soyinka
A comprehensive Uzor Maxim Uzoatu essay on his teacher and mentor, the Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka

Rethinking City Hall
Isabella Morris confronts xenophobia in a South African City Hall

Stormy Debut
Tola Ositelu reviews Ayesha Harruna Attah's Harmattan Rain

Before the Storm
Four poems by Nigerian poet and novelist, Unoma Nguemo Azuah

Agama Atra
Three poems from UK-based South African poet Isobel Dixon

Enter, ZimbaBwana
Ando Yeva reviews Brian Chikwava's Harare North, and Petina Gappah's An Elegy for Easterly

Tales by Conversation: Bloody Benji
A brand new tale of an old painting. Have you missed an episode? Links to back issues

This is Lagos
Fast-paced Nigerian thriller from Crispin Oduobuk-MfonAbasi

My Three Sons
A poem from Baltimore minister, Bobby Gawthrop


		Elegy for Nostalgia New poems from Tanure Ojaide, Nigerian poet and scholar

		So, dear reader, cross the border and get Behind Every Successful Man at a good bookstore near you after June 1. (Come on. You knew that was coming!) Zukiswa