[Illustration] La Catrina by Maria Teresa Palacios
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Three Poems by Fernando Bonilla
Images of Power Images of power Are banging at my door. I woke up smelling The bitterness of the old Puppeteer getting tired, getting angry At me and the rest of the world. They are resented, they despite us, They fear us and yet, They devour us alive. Images of power are all I
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They Might Think that I Am an Angel by Fer de la Cruz
Translated by Jonathan Harrington God gave me an editing job. Between dreams I would mark the errors, all the way from a primordial Alpha to an impending Omega still under construction. I saw the universe in rough draft. There was very little love in long paragraphs of human history. The most serious errors were
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Bubbles by Camila de la Parra
I All my friends have grown up inside bubbles. They float a few centimeters above the soil And swear there’s dirt between their toes. It’s all lies of course, I have seen how their momma’s servants Clean under their nails when they sleep. I’ve been inside the bubbles, They’re nice and warm and fully
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[Political Cartoons] Dante's Corner
Operation Sparrow Hawk in Action A Detainee Strikes Back
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Ikhide Ikheloa: People Take Me a Lot More Seriously than I am Willing to Take Myself.
“The West has made stars out of Diaspora writers and made them Africa’s voices. I have a problem with that.” Ikheloa Ikhide Interviewed by Emmanuel Iduma I have not always agreed with Ikhide Ikheloa. So when I received an invitation from Bakwa Magazine to have a short conversation with him, I figured
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Q & A with Paola-Audrey Ndengue on Fashizblack, Fashion & the Black Diaspora
“Fashizblack Magazine is the result of a rather peculiar editorial policy: we are neither an ‘ethnic’ magazine closed up on itself, nor a magazine dedicated to Western fashion in the traditional sense of the expression.” Paola-Audrey Ndengue Interviewed by Dzekashu MacViban Translated by Nfor Edwin N. Fashizblack(Fashion Is Black) is a contemporary fashion magazine
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Excerpt from Bom Boy by Yewande Omotoso
The walk from the Western Medical Fund office to Leke’s home was thirty minutes but it took him fifty on a Friday because he made a stop. Leke watched the pavement as he walked, and his long legs swung a slow easy gait. He felt like whistling but he’d never picked it up as
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Adrift by Temitayo Olofinlua
You were staring at the white screen of your computer when he called you that morning. You were in the middle of a terrible writer’s block. You could not write a word. So, you escaped into many worlds through the many open tabs on the browser. You were looking through websites; looking for events to
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Hooray for Havana by Sebastiaan Bedaux aka the Ego Tripper
Sebastiaan Bedaux, aka the ego tripper is a 31 year old journalist from Belgium. He’s not really a travel journalist, but traveling has always been his passion and his job has allowed him to travel to many different countries. He recently won the Belgian Blog Award (by Knack Weekend) in the travel category.
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