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·7 hours ago

Echoes of Survival

A story about the silent battles with suicide and mental health — from Grace Malala — My brother almost committed suicide. I know, that’s not how you start a story, but life is happening, and it’s not every day we wake up to roses and sunshine. …

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Echoes of Survival
Echoes of Survival
Fiction

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Kalahari Review

·Nov 28

Makoko

New short fiction about a place, a family and child trauma — from Bibiana Ossai — Summer 2009 Helena watched her mommy, Adaure, style her hair with chapped fingers in their house in Makoko. She often heard the people call it the Venice of Lagos, the nightmare of a fantasy and a hellhole. A city with its spine located on the coast of mainland Lagos. And…

Fiction

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Makoko
Makoko
Fiction

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Kalahari Review

·Nov 28

An Egg and a River

Poems about self-discovery and loss — from Marial Awendit — An Egg and a River Am I the best candidate to throw A boiled egg into the Nile? I remember breaking A gourd full of water, In the face of thirst, in 1999. I did not intend that, yet I flinched from serrated leaves Flying around my assembly. The council commissioned To hurricane away my…

Marial Awendit

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An Egg and a River
An Egg and a River
Marial Awendit

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Kalahari Review

·Nov 28

Still Me

An essay on the joys of love and selfhood — by Abigail George I was loved and then I was not loved. I was admired then not admired at all. That is the journey of love that I traveled on for two years. The man transformed my life. My life and its primary intensity. Life must flow through you. On the days when…

Abigail George

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Still Me
Still Me
Abigail George

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Kalahari Review

·Nov 28

The Flesh Wound

The two pithy poems paints the hurtful journey of a country and its brutalized citizens — from South Sudanese Adut Loi Akok — A Country Itself Can Represent a Sad Poem A country itself can represent a sad poem If its flag is dominated by bloody colours, And rule by paunchy leaders. I know you’ll never understand how it feels to journey with a hordes of brutal zombies Wild as an angry Chimpanzee Wild as Panthers and Nile crocodile Alas! …

Adut Loi Akok

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The Flesh Wound
The Flesh Wound
Adut Loi Akok

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Kalahari Review

·Nov 23

Ancestry of Burning

Poetry on anarchy, existential tropes, travails and odysseys — from Osieka Osinimu Alao — Ancestry of Burning how do we/ measure the joules/ of civilisation/ if we always have to give our bones/ to bolster its crippled spine/ a body of missing bones grovels on the verge of a magicless voyage/ every scar/ a gamete of memory/ in this city/ of wayward croons/ where poniards pave/ a paradise of annelids/ where pyres masquerade/…

Osieka Osinimu Alao

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Ancestry of Burning
Ancestry of Burning
Osieka Osinimu Alao

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Kalahari Review

·Nov 23

Never Passed & Duff Road

Two fresh poems from South African Carla Chait — Never Passed A poem about the writers mother A past immersed: our midnight hours tallied together. History soaking dreamily… First steeped then released onto a street of strangers. Change, suffering, sometimes love — Sleet among the songs. Stumbling forward along a sword — streaming with others, trading secrets, stories of woe — Between, the murmur of her echoes along a…

Carla Chait

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Never Passed & Duff Road
Never Passed & Duff Road
Carla Chait

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Kalahari Review

·Nov 23

Killing King Kong

If Dawn had her way, the film King Kong would never be released and she was determined to tell the world why — by Shane Pillay — King Kong was released during Christmas season of 2005. It was the third remake of the simian story - ● 1993 with Fay Wray ● 1976 with Jessica Lange ● 2005 with Naomi Watts Fresh from the success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, director Peter Jackson settled on…

Shane Pillay

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Killing King Kong
Killing King Kong
Shane Pillay

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Kalahari Review

·Nov 23

Imposter Notes

Four poems about love, abuse and irreparable loss — from Adėlèké — Imposter Notes remember that evening, just about twenty-three zero-four PM I had my cold text in your Instagram inbox pursued by my chivalric humor did my magic, you told me how you were sheepishly smiling at your phone till dawn the ignition turned on, the flickers of pink flames, scorched your hard girl…

Adėlèké

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Imposter Notes
Imposter Notes
Adėlèké

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Published in

Kalahari Review

·Nov 22

Memoir of Love

An essay from Nigerian Abdullahi D. Hassan — “Be careful with girls. Do not let them steal your heart away”. My mother would say. I cannot say she could read minds, but I was sure she could read mine. Graceful, beautiful, and soft-spoken, northern girls were my biggest weakness. It wasn’t my fault as I always say, I…

Abdullahi D Hassan

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Memoir of Love
Memoir of Love
Abdullahi D Hassan

14 min read

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