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Mythmakers
Experts in world-building and weaving magic from the everyday and gravitas from the absurd, Congolese…
The People Shall
In the spirit of Prof. Wangari Maathai's hummingbird analogy that viewed no act in the…
Beauty in brevity
Don't miss this special spotlight on award-winning short fiction writers from across the globe whose…
David Mailu: Retrospective on post-independence Kenyan fiction
David Maillu is a prolific Kenyan known for his enthralling novels dating from the 1970s.…
Playreading & Q&A: Sisters of the East
Burundian theater performer and playwright Laura Sheïlla Inangoma's Sisters of the East (Soeurs de l'Est)…
Is technology eating our souls?
Science journalist Marta Peirano and sci-fi writer Mahmud El Sayed offer a temperature check on…
Art of the magazine
In a world of rapidly reducing attention spans, the journal persists as a sumptuous, curated…
Questioning conservation
Amid musings on speculative cartography that welcomes repair and new configurations of abundance, we still…
Writing to reposess, rename, reown
Kenyan essayist and political analyst, Nanjala Nyabola; British-Nigerian poet and playwright, Inua Ellams;
Documentary as Memory
A discussion on creative documentary storytelling with celebrated Senegalese filmmaker, Moussa Sene Absa and Kenya-based…
In praise of the third space
Celebrating the necessity and philosophies underpinning the curatorial strategies behind Ake, a globally-acclaimed festival with…
Mateya ya Mabanckou: Scenes from a life
Alain Mabanckou grew up in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo, and studied law in Brazzaville and…
Experiments in form
Exploring new paths to storytelling across literature, poetry, film and visual art with Nigerian writer,…
Mothers loom large
A frank conversation about how maternal figures materialize in fiction and life and the gray…
