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…
Haiku by Virginie Colline; Illustration "Mark Twain Fish Fry" by Mark Erickson
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…
Four Poems by Fiona Khan
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…
News/ Call for Submissions for Bakwa 02 (issue two)
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…
Editorial
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…
Visual Art by Eleanor Leonne Bennett
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…
Sex As Gender/Power Politics Between Men and Women
Wirndzerem G. Barfee One of the first things that after strikes the sensibility of a sensitive reader is the originality of a book’s title. When it comes to poetry; that exigency is doubled. Lum Louisa, on this critical count,…
