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A Review of Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion by Tanisha C. Ford
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A Review of Echezonachukwu Nduka’s “Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts”
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An Excerpt from Carrol May Coleman Nelson’s “Dolly May and the Magical Enchanted Garden”
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Decamping Wakanda
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A Review of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' "M Archive: After the End of the World"
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British-Nigerian Author Changes Perceptions of Race and Gender Roles with Series of Children’s Books
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Poetry by Deji Adesoye
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Poetry by Deji Adesoye
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White Lies and White Lights: -- a Review of Krista Thompson’s “Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in
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New Rhymes Over An Old Beat: A Review of Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.’s Break Beats in the Bronx
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Poetry by Agbaakin O. Jeremiah
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You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody [Sings] You: Tributing Blackness
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A Review of Emily J. Lordi’s "Donny Hathaway Live"
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Better Be Neutral - A Short Story by Ohikhuare Isuku
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Poetry by Cynthia Gentile
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Poetry by Deji Adesoye
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A Poem by Tares Banigoe Oburumu
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Get Reading: How To Figure Out Which Genre Is For You
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New Poetry from Lamont Lilly
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Poetry by Akor Emmanuel Oche
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A Review of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' "Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity"
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Book Review: Louis Chude-Sokei’s The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
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Poetry by Kole Ade Odutola
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The Missing Gospel of CLR James
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David Oyelowo To Headline BLACK STAR Symposium At This Year’s BFI London Film Festival
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Book Review: Colson Whitehead, The Prophet -- and The Underground Railroad
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Book Review: A Place in the Sun by Kola King
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A Black Nerd Reimagines The Black Panther Comic
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Two Poems by Oyin Oludipe
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How A Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
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Laughter: A Short Story by Femi Eromosele (1 comment)
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Book Review: The Moral Complexities of Eating Nyama Choma
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“Troubled Waters in Flint: No Hashtags”
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‘Manchild in the Promised Land’ at Fifty
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Book Review: The Social Roots of Global Justice by Carol Gould
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MTN Cup: A Short Story by Caleb Okereke
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How to Read a [Black] Book: A Primer
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A Ball of Thread: A Short Story by Vivian Ogbonna
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Poetry by Ehizogie Iyeomoan
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Poetry by Olajide Salawu
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Oluronbi: A Short Story by Mosunmola Omowunmi Adeojo
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“We”: A Poem by Pius Adesanmi
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The New Soul: A Short Story by Jennifer N. Mbunabo
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Love and Damnation: A Short Story by Tee Ngugi
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Pariah: A Short Story by Olusola Akinwale
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“The Praegustator Who Spied on the World”: A Short Story by Samuel Kolawole
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Poetry by Bob McNeil (3 comments)
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A Review of Two Novels on Race in America: Nella Larsen’s ‘Quicksand’ and ‘Passing’
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Of Gog and Magog: A Poem by Juanita Cox Westmaas
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My Name is Hope – PART 2: A Short Story by Vivian Ogbonna
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Ten Books that Change(d) My Life
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Aladura and the Rain: A Poem by Wale Owoade
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He is Gay: Fiction by J. Pharoah Doss
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My name is Hope: A Short Story by Vivian U. Ogbonna
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A Poem by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
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Poetry By Geosi Gyasi
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“Waiting for Father” - A Short Story by Jennifer N. Mbunabo
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The 2014 Caine Prize: Stories in the Age of Social Media
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Poetry by Oyin Oludipe
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Poetry By Luqman Onikosi
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One Chance: A Short Story by Jennifer N. Mbunabo
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At Season’s End: A Short Story by Nducu wa Ngugi
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"Broken!": A Short Story by Wanjiku wa Ngugi
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A Short Story by Binyavanga Wainaina : "A Day in the Life of Idi Amin Dada"
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Mr Loverman: A Novel by Bernardine Evaristo
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Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc.: Of Moral Absolutism and Fallen Gods
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Who Are the Gatekeepers in Publishing?
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Seduction Studies: A Short Story by Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema
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A Short Story By Gabriel Bamgbose
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Poetry by Gabriel Bamgbose
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Killing Time: A Short Story by J. Enuenwemba Obi
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Two Sides of a Coin (for Mandela and Achebe, 2013)
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A Cupboard Full of Coats, A Debut Novel, by Yvvette Edwards
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Threnody for Kofi Awoonor: (1935-2013)
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A Short Story By J. Pharoah Doss
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Miscellany: On Writing Black Life
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Poetry by David Ogana
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Poetry by Kwabena Agyare Yeboah
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Launching Dr Hakim Adi’s “Pan Africanism and Communism”
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A Short Story by Abongile Bonani
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A Dirge for Kofi Awoonor
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Uche Peter Umez Interviews the Critically-Acclaimed Poet Obari Gomba
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A REVIEW OF ONYEKA NWELUE’S THE ABYSSINIAN BOY
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A Short Story by Femi Owolabi
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Barbara Maria Nnaemeka’s memoir: Granddaughter of the Windrush
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A Short Story by Myles idoko Ojabo
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A Short Story by Olusola Akinwale
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A Short Story By Uzoma Ihejirika
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Is There A Distinction Between the Popular and the Literary in African Literature?
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Poetry By Jennifer N. Mbunabo
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A Short Story by Ike Pius
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On Afam Akeh’s "Letter Home & Biafran Nights"
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A Short Story by Nkiacha Atemnkeng
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A Review of NoViolet Bulawayo’s ‘We Need New Names’
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On Mark Jacobs' 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus'
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Taiye Selasi's 'Ghana Must Go': A Reader's Reponse
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An Excerpt from Chinedu W. Achebe’s Novel
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‘I Want to be Read by all People’: A Conversation with Sylva Nze Ifedigbo
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A Poem by Juanita Cox Westmaas
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Poetry By Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
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Poetry by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
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Sokari Ekine Speaks to the British Somali Gay Writer Diriye Osman
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A Short Story By Atieno Dok
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Revisiting Actor-Writer Sebati Mafate
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A Review of Richard Ali’s ‘City of Memories’
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A Short Story by Nebeolisa Okwudili
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November 5th: A Short Story by Isimemeh Osagie
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British Library Acquires the Archive of Caribbean British Poet and Writer, James Berry
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A Short Story by Ife Watson
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A Review of Orin Starn's "The Passion of Tiger Woods"
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Teju Cole, Palimpsests, and W.G Sebald’s Ghost
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The Poet Fled: And He is Still Far From Home!
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Poetry by Nebeolisa Okwudili
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Fanon, Thiong'o and Bojangles
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The Hour Glass and the Chess Piece - A Flash Fiction
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A Review of Debayo Adelaja-Olowoake’s ‘Thunder, Lightning and Storm’
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And All of These Things in My Father's House: A Personal Story
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Women in South African History by Nomboniso Gasa (Ed) published by HSRC Press.
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Three Poems by Okwudili Nebeolisa
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Meeting Africa: A Personal Story
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A Short Story by Damilola M. Aderibigbe
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Noo Saro-Wiwa: Peering into Nigeria ever so darkly
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Texting Poetry by Mia Nikasimo
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A Short Story from Kieron Blake’s New Novel, ‘You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat it’
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On Admiring Melissa Tandiwe Myambo’s ‘La Salle de Départ’
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An Excerpt from 'Freedom' - the Gripping New Book By Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis
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Some Thoughts on Rotimi Babatunde’s Caine Prize Shortlisted ‘Bombay’s Republic’
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A Poem by Ejiofor Ugwu
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A Short Story by Brian Bwesigye
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On Chinua Achebe's 'The Education of a British-Protected Child'
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Poetry by Patrick Ochieng Adholla
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A Review of E.A Samuels’ “The Triangle Route: The Extraordinary Journey of an Ordinary Man”
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Review: Brian Moyo's "Father Christmas and The Epping Forest Twins"
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The Naipaul in us
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A Poem By Mia Nikasimo
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The History of Migration to the Bahamas
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Poetry By Mia Nikasimo
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Poetry by David Ishaya Osu
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Fiction by D.D. Armstrong
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Poetry by David Ishaya Osu
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A Short Story by Wole Soyinka
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A Short Story by La Vonda Staples
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Occupy Post-Blackness?
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The Trials of Chris Abani and the Power of Empty Words
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A Review of Niyi Osundare’s City without People
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A Short Story by Nnadozie Duke Onyekuru
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Our World According to Binyavanga Wainaina
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A Short Story by George G. Karanja
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The Poet as a Social Critic
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A Short Story By Mary Kemi Shorun
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A Short By Jekwu Anyaegbuna
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On Literature and Writers
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Poetry By Yolanda Lindsay Mabuto
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Poetry By Yolanda Lindsay Mabuto
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Lost in America
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Poetry by J. Pharoah Doss
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A Short Story by J. Pharoah Doss
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Poetry By Dzekashu MacViban
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Poetry By Dzekashu MacViban
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A Short Story By Nneka Okereke
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On Tyrants
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A Poem By Isaac Kiiza Tibasiima
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Paul Crooks: From Britain to Jamaica and Africa
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The African American Writer in London
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A Short Story By Jekwu Anyaegbuna
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A Poem By Hillary Wachinga
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A Short Story By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema
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A Short Story By Suzanne Ushie
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Three Poems By Yemi Soneye
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Two Poems By Hillary Kuteisa
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A Short Story by Austin Kaluba
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A Colonial Crisis
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Poetry By Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva
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A Poem By Isaac Kiiza Tibasiima
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Poetry by Mark Oluwakemi Shorun
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Review: V.S Naipaul’s The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
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Precious: A True Story by Precious Williams
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A Short Story by E.E. Sule
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A Short Story By Louis Ogbere
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A Short Story by Isaac Anyaogu
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A Short Story By Austin Kaluba
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An Encounter With Chinua Achebe
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Poetry By Emmanuel Iduma
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On Being A People
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Poetry By Mwiche Chikungu
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Poetry By E.E Sule
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On Emerging Ten Black and Asian British Literary Voices
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A Short Story By Mary Shorun
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A Short Story by Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema
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My Aunt – Bless Her – is Occasionally Racist...
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A Poem by Alfred Omenya
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A Short Story By Emmanuel Iduma
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Koroga: Poetry Meets Photography
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A Playlet By Unoma Azuah
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A Poem by Tim’m T. West
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'White Guilt' and the Revolution
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In Praise of Our Oral Heritage
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A Short Story By Abimbola Adelakun
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Please, Don’t Call Me White!
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A Short Story By Jumoke Giwa
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Keguro Macharia on Stephen Derwent Partington’s 'How to Euthanise a Cactus'
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A Short Story By Austin Kaluba
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A Short Story By Femi Adedina
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Unoma N. Azuah Pays Tribute to Lucille Clifton
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A Short Story By Myne Whitman
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On Africa's Emerging Literary Voices
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A Short Story By Ayodele Morocco-Clarke
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A Short Story By Unoma N. Azuah
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A Short Story By Unoma N. Azuah
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Ngugi's Story
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Short Story: In My Dreams It Was Simpler
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Senait Mehari on Life as a Child Soldier
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Chinua Achebe: Lecturing the West in the Past Tense
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A Poem By Hannah Edeki
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Michael Obiora: On Stereotypes and Black Britishness
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Did Jamie Foxx and T-Pain Play Up to the Stereotype at This Year’s Grammy?
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A Short Story By Olu Jacobs
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An Elegy For Haiti
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A Short Story By Claude McKay
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A Short Story For Christmas
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Discovering Literary Black Britain
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Thinking About Achebe on the Porch of Hemingway
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Strange Passages To Harare North
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The Storyteller From Zimbabwe
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Rhetorics That Binds And Blinds
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A Short Story by Kenechuckwu Obi
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Kachi A. Ozumba's The Shadow of a Smile
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Wole Soyinka, Igbo Cyber-Discourse, and the Myth of the Good Yoruba
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Black Self-Hatred!
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Short Story: Comrades in Arms
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless…
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Because Of My Wife: A Short Story
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Francis B. Nyamnjoh Examines Contemporary Cameroon
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A Tale of Two Sisters: A Short Story
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Requiem For A Destitute: A Short Story
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Oatmeal
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A Short Story: I Had To Do It
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Theatre: Oladipo Agboluaje Delights and Dazzles Us With His Latest Offering
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Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani : An Exciting New Voice Emerges
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A Poem By Oumar Farouk Sesay
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Who's Better Off Now? A Short Story
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Coming to America
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Recreating the Plantation in a 'Free' Society
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A Very Short Story
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Why Uwem Akpan's Latest Offering is not so Remarkable
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And Why Uwem Akpan Didn't Disappoint
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Thoughts on Bessie Head – an African Woman of Letters
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It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower
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How Progressive America Surpassed Backward Mother Europe
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The Souls of Black Folk
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Es’Kia Mphahlele on Negritude Literature
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Book Review: La Condition Noire
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Black Passenger, Yellow Cabs (Part 2)
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Black Passenger, Yellow Cabs (Part 1)
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The Muslim/Christian Divide
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Viva Cuba Libre!
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Yes, They Can!
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How Relevant Are Young African Writers?
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Theatre: Mental Health in Black Britain
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A Short Story Wriiten By Wole Soyinka When He Was 19
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A Graphic Novel About the Ivory Coast and the Perception of Africa in Literature
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Theatre: Black Britain's Mental Health and Don Kinch's 'Coming Up For Air
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Theatre: Black Britain Mental Health and Don Kinch's 'Coming Up For Air
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Ben Okri on the Beauty of African Literature
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Does Race Still Matter?
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On the Illegalities of War
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Hypermasculinity, Whiteness and Racial Paranoia in America
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Race Writing and the Era of Barack Obama
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Exploring New Visions For Black Masculinity
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A Poem By Benjamin Zephaniah
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Book Review: Singing For Life
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A Poem By Rethabile Masilo
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Rereading James Baldwin
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Poem: In Praise of Refugees
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A Poem By Benjamin Zephaniah
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A Poem By Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
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A Poem By Benjamin Zephaniah
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A Poem By Mazisi Kunene
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A Poem By Louise Bennett (152 comments)
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A Poem By Aimé Césaire: A Leading Figure In the Negritude Movement
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A Poem By Benjamin Zephaniah
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A Poem By Claude McKay
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A Poem By Benjamin Zephaniah
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Lloney Monono’s Dazzling Poetic Waltz
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My Realities: A Poem By An HIV Martyr
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The Death of Black Poetry: A Poem By Benjamin Zephaniah
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Book: On Black America's Music Tradition
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A Poem By Linton Kwesi Johnson
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Tomb-Raiding and the Legacy of Civil Rights
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Malorie Blackman: A Profile
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A Poem By Wole Soyinka
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An Eco Poem
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Rethinking Black Kinship
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Theatre: Too Clever By Half
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Theatre: Tarell Alvin McCraney's Brilliant Debut at London's Young Vic
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A Poem By Derek Walcott
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Poetry Review: A Fresh Voice From Cameroon
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An Ode to the Woman They Called The Hottentot Venus
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A Poem By Benjamin Zephaniah
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A Poem By Benjamin Zephaniah
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A Writer's Dilemma
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Mama, I Want To Be Published!
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This Week's Poem By Derek Walcott
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Haiti and the Kidnapping of Aristide
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A Poem By Christopher Okigbo
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A Poem By Maya Angelou
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On Image of Savages, Part One
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Somebody Blew Up America
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As He Wins The International Man Booker Prize: A Chinua Achebe Reader
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Book Review: The Meaning of Mandela
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Theatre: Theodore Ward Resurrected
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The Journal of Popular Culture on New Black Man
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Theatre: In Search of James Baldwin
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This Week's Poem By Benjamin Zephaniah
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A Short Story: The Matrix Redux: The African Version
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This Week's Poem By Maya Angelou
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This Week's Poem: Ode to my Racist Friend
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A Dub Poem By Linton Kwesi Johnson
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Book Review: The Games Black Girls Play
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Happy Birthday, Maya Angelou
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A Short Story By Patrick Tagbo Oguejiofor
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A Short Story: Grooming Him For Her
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An Abolition Poem By Benjamin Zephaniah
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This Week's Short Story
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This Week's Poem by Derek Walcott
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The British Empire Writes Back
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Shaun Hutchinson on Chinua Achebe's No Longer At Ease
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This Week's Poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson
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Shaun Hutchinson On The Baby Fathers Triology
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A New Year Poem By Christopher Okigbo
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Short Story for Christmas: Mass of Appetites
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This Week's Poem by Ben Okri
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An Excerpt from Tia Williams' Randy Chick-Lit
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This Week's Poem by Derek Walcott
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This Week's Poem by Langston Hughes
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This Week's Poem by Taban Lo Liyong
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Best of British: An Excerpt from Constance Briscoe's Best-selling Memoir
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This Week's Poem by Leopold Sedar Senghor
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This Week's Poem by Derek Walcott
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Poem: Little Boy Caught Between Blocks of Present and Past
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This Week's Poem: My Child Is Still Crying
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Why We Love Encarta Africana and Why Every Black Family Should Have a Copy
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Theatre: The life of Uppity Blacks on Stage
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Films of the Month
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Women, Birth Control and the Catholic Church
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Poem: Breaking the silence
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Books of the month
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Short story: The Mass of Appetites (PART 2)
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Short story: The Mass of Appetites (PART 1)
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The problem with the idea of a Christian God
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Africans and the European soul: Part 2
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Africans and the European soul: Part 1
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The politics of long hair
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Black people's vocal intonation vs Whites' vocal intonation
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The rise and rise of Islamophobia
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Munyakei at the coast: Part 3
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Munyakei at the coast Part 2
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Munyakei at the coast: Part 1
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The call to sexual purity
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Reversing Africa's brain drain
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Who’s afraid of a Black Muslim?
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A day in the life of Idi Amin Dada
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A short story from Binyavanga Wainaina
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Rwanda's Past in London's Theatreland
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A Nose For Money: A Literary Offering From Cameroon
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Jimmy Cliff's story gets a shake-your-booty makeover
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How To Handle A Hip-Hop Back-Packer
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Short Story: My Imaginary Friend
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The Brilliance of Malorie Blackman's Checkmate
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Meet Malorie Blackman; Arguably The Best Children Writer In The World
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Floeytry... Poetry According to Floyd (310 comments)
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Remembering the Pioneering Sita Bella
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Eating, Caribbean Style
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In The Company of Cheerful Ladies
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Roz Way on My Fathers' daughters (2 comments)
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It's Hip Hop, Stupid! (41 comments)
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