Literary Zone

Poetry: Summer Time in Sierra Leone

Summer Time in Sierra Leone. A warm summer’s day and it’s So hot in Freetown today And the yellow flowers are Blowing gently in the wind And (...)

| June 2023 | 3662 views

Hands off our Vultures

Hands off our Vultures Hands off our vultures Hands off we pray Vultures are nature’s darlings And yet endangered Our environment we’ve destroyed With (...)

| May 2023 | 3834 views

A Dying Breed

A Dying Breed By Papa Ray, Freetown, Sierra Leone Physicist of the highest calibre, Resident on our local Olympus for decades; (...)

| May 2023 | 3568 views

Justice: I know Your Real Name

By Charles Quist-Adade, Vancouver, Canada Justice: I know Your Real Name You proclaimed you’re the law of karma The author of the Golden Rule The good (...)

| April 2023 | 2187 views

B L O O D!

B L O O D! By Raymond E. D. de’Souza George (Papa Ray), Freetown, Sierra Leone B L O O D! B L O O D! BLOOD! The divine (...)

| April 2023 | 2618 views

American writer Samantha Irby

Born February 13, 1980 (age 43) Occupation Comedian, writer Awards Lambda Literary Award Website: http://bitchesgottaeat.blogspot.com/ (...)

| March 2023 | 2191 views

To “All Ma Ladies”, on IW Day 2023

To “All Ma Ladies”, on IW Day 2023: The Silence Between Two Echoes “Only these Understand the eloquence of the silence Between two echoes in a haunted (...)

| March 2023 | 989 views

Your Logic Frightens Me Mandela

Your Logic Frightens Me Mandela By Wole Soyinka, Nigeria Your logic frightens me, Mandela, Your logic frightens me. Those years Of dreams, of time (...)

| March 2023 | 1132 views

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. By David P. Carroll, Freetown, Sierra Leone It’s Saint Patrick’s Day and Everyone is Irish today So let’s have some fun (...)

| February 2023 | 791 views

Guinea Bissauan writer Abdulai Sila

Abdulai Silá (also Silla, Sila; born 1 April 1958 in Catió), is a Guinea-Bissauan engineer, economist, social researcher and writer. He is the author of (...)

| January 2023 | 1698 views

French writer David Diop

Born in Paris in 1966, David Diop spent most of his childhood in Senegal before returning to France for his studies. In 1998, he became a professor of (...)

| December 2022 | 2511 views