Dzekashu MacViban [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203817340″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=’450′ iframe=”true” /] Earlier this year, Yolanda Be Cool (an Australian band made up of Sylvester Martinez (aka Andrew Stanley) and Johnson “Durango Slim” Peterson) teamed up with DCUP on a…
An Ode To Poetry
Gloria D. Gonsalves Poetry is the seed of language, sort of like what a child who is learning to communicate acquires and later develops prose. It is perhaps the reason why children enjoy so much the poetic play with words…
Q & A with Abiola Oni on the London Underground
Abiola Oni discusses African writing, the tube, and the stereotypes usually associated with Africans in the diaspora with Imade Iyamu. Read Abiola Oni’s story “Strangers On the Train” here. In your story, ‘Strangers on a train’, you…
Voices: An anthology of contemporary art and literature
We were taught in elementary school that a noun is a name of a person, place or thing. Ancient, medieval and contemporary literature has encouraged lots of conversations around persons and things, but hardly places. Yet places have…
The Saraba Manuscript Project
Prize Details There is a growing interest in literature published and discussed within African countries. Saraba Magazine, a leading literary publishing outfit based in Nigeria, has been at the forefront of this conversation by championing the work of emerging writers.…
Applications for the 2015 Artists In Residency (AIR) Programme
Each year, the Africa Centre, provides artists with the unique opportunity to spend four to six weeks fully dedicated to developing their craft. This year through partnerships with residency programmes in Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Kenya, Spain, Tanzania and…
Imbolo Mbue's "Million-Dollar" Novel: Behold the Dreamers
Originally published in Scribbles from the Den Dibussi Tande Imbolo Mbue. (March 15, 2016). Behold the Dreamers: A Novel. New York: Random House, 384 pages. Formats: Ebook, Audio, Hardcover. Available on pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.…
[Book Review]: Akpeteshie As A Symbol of Power in Benjamin Kwakye’s The Clothes of Nakedness
Kwabena Agyare Yeboah Kwakye left Ghana right after his high school education. In this novel, he set out to write something intimately Ghanaian, something that he might have not experienced in a long while. Or something he would have to…
[Poetry] A Boy by Kwabena Agyare Yeboah
a boy stands as lost as a strand of pubic hair found in the sponge of lovers on a nuptial night his story is a note locked in jaws on this night, he becomes a river jittered…
The Bang Bang Club
Sanya Osha What are the moral decisions involved in the act of taking a photograph that captures extreme human anguish and moments of demeaning death (or even moments preceding it)? Photo Credit: http://www.thebangbangclub.com/joao-silva.html Largely, between 1990— 94, a…
