Alexandria I took my imagination for a walk Unwisely from the port, the teeming streets Were like my head, a restless cacophony. Poverty screamed like a coyote Trash gathered flies where babies crawled To play in gutters, does anybody care For children, in this wreckage of a city? Torn awnings flapped for five minutes of […]
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Old Baobab Great one, rooted in a history Fat to bursting, slumped asleep: Rest your tired grey eyes, Grand and wild- He saw you from The white verandah plains Looking at his land, garden of the ancients In a handful of dust: thrown and Lost to the wind. Alitupa Zawadi He brought gifts, of carved
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Bearded Business (To a Fallen Friend: Mbella Sonne Dipoko) His voice would baritone From the pit of his flattened belly; Boon of frugal diets, Of cold chicken, and beef soya; Of grains and leaven, now, And then, a drop or two of Bacchus’ thing; By the strain of sanjas And endless trekking escapades. He stared
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Walk In Their Shoes I stopped at the lights again and he was there Wanting help but not being “in my face” I give him something, just a few coins going spare He took it with purest simplicity and grace His sign said etienne@robot.com Still has his humour, still has a smile I couldn’t walk
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Batik Haiku dreamy eye phosphenes a pineapple split open across your canvas Mark Erickson is a painter and lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began his interest in art while attending schools in Munich, Germany and Torino, Italy. Mark completed his art training at the Academy of Art and the Art
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Africa Kills Her Son I am alive, Africa! I speak with a poet’s pen then write with a weapon that cleanses the hearts of despots…. Ah, Africa! My Africa! Greeting heroes and welcoming them to her bosom. Beating drums reverberating waiting patiently for her children to whisper in voices echoing rebirth and life on barren
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In a future project, Bakwa will team up with The Ofi Press (Mexico), edited by Jack Little, and the Ofi Press will feature West African writers while Bakwa will feature Mexican writers. The Ofi Press is a monthly magazine which publishes poetry, fiction, interviews, reviews, etc. More details later! Meanwhile, you can query the editor
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The annihilation of memory is a pathology that still plagues the collective memory of a people in this globalized generation . The plethora of outlets for the written word is one way of keeping the word— and by extension our memory and consciousness— alive. The influence that a magazine can have on an audience should
[Part 1] Oscar C. Labang For a very long time now, I have struggled with inner pressures not to join in this theoretical quibbling about Anglophone Cameroon Literature and just content my soul in a quiet corner and make my modest contributions (whatsoever) to projecting it to the heights that it deserves. I have tried
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Get backbetteron Boat race Legs Metal meal Eleanor Leonne Bennett is an internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature’s Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland trust and Postal Heritage. Her photography has been published in the
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