Interview with Tom Jalio Winner of BNPA2014

Download pdf, epub, mobi  Tom Jalio is a Kenyan poet, editor, runner, and winner of the BN Poetry Award 2014. You can follow him on Twitter for updates on his life @tjalio Recently, we got a chance to have a chat with him, about winning the BNPA, his writing, and his life as a runner. …

Inside the Mind of a Happy Side Dish

By Acen Miriam Carolyne                                                          Download pdf, epub, mobiWatch on YouTube My names are Acen Miriam Carolyne. Most people call me “floetry” because of my poetry. I earned the nickname quite easily and adapted to it with ease on social media. To earn a living, I work in the operations department of a freight company in Jinja.Hmmm… …

I’m Unlike My Mother

By Liz Leppy                                                                  Download pdf, epub, mobi Her wild radiant smile still sits there where nobody expects.Spectacular-She trucks through the empty, abandoned routeHer hope carried in a broken vaseThere comes a tear, struck from my hungry eyesI tried plucking strength from my weeded heartI triedBut she is different-I’m speechless, she wears a language …

Like My Mind

By David Ishaya Osu                                                 Download pdf, epub, mobi Editor’s Note: We use a picture file, to preserve the author’s preferred format.≈≈ Download pdf, epub, mobi≈≈ David Ishaya Osu(b. October 27, 1991) is a Nigerian poet. His works have appeared in publications including: The New Black Magazine, Saturday Sun, African Writer, Gobbet Magazine, Elohi Gadugi Journal, The Kalahari Review, …

The Plan

By David Ishaya Osu                                                     Download pdf, epub, mobi Editor’s note: We used a picture file to preserve the author’s formating preferences, which is lost in html coding.≈≈ Download pdf, epub, mobi≈≈ David Ishaya Osu(b. October 27, 1991) is a Nigerian poet. His works have appeared in publications including: The New Black Magazine, Saturday Sun, African Writer, Gobbet …

A Cancellation

By Ali Znaidi                                                                     Download pdf, epub, mobiI wish I was a lobster to feel no pain.But when I remembered the delicious painof North African lemonsthat pierce the tongue,I declared this wish null.≈≈Download pdf, epub, mobi≈≈ Ali Znaidi(b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia, where he teaches English. He authored four poetry chapbooks including Experimental Ruminations(Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s …

Jar of misfortune

By Mulumba Ivan Matthias                                                        Download pdf, epub, mobi No street light burned. No bulbs on the buildings. Car headlights lit the narrow streets. The buildings, mostly wooden and rusty iron sheet structures, were maize mills and welding workshops fronting filthy trenches. Tenywa observed them, silently taking in every detail.“What a neighbourhood!” he said to himself. He …

In Her Sister’s Shadow

By Hannah Onoguwe                                                        Download pdf, epub, mobi If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own. -Socrates Two things happened at once. Ireti came back, bearing packages in her arms and followed closely by the perspiring houseboy and …

Playing Games in the Delta

By Lauri Kubuitsile                                                                                 Download pdf, epub, mobiIt was cold in the morning in the Okavango Delta even in December. There’d been heavy rains during the night and Dambuza put on his jacket and walked to the river’s edge. It had risen in the night. The water flowed wildly, very different from its lazy journey the …