Literary Zone

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 | 953 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 | 1044 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 | 721 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 | 1645 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 | 2436 views

Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih

Tayeb Salih (July 1929 – 18 February 2009) was a Sudanese writer, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic programme as well as for Arabic journals, and a (...)

| November 2022 | 3028 views

British-American writer Taiye Selasi

Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a British-American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of (...)

| November 2022 | 3301 views

2022 Booker Prize Winner from Sri Lanka

Dear reader, The moment we’ve been building up to all year has finally arrived: the winner of the Booker Prize 2022 has been announced! And it is… (...)

| October 2022 | 1360 views

Nigerian writer Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedimma Nkemdili "Nnedi" Okorafor (formerly Okorafor-Mbachu; born April 8, 1974 is a Nigerian-American writer of science fiction and fantasy for both (...)

| October 2022 | 3757 views

For Gbanabom Hallowell

For Prof. Gbanabom Hallowell A distinguished Sierra Leonean writer and people person, who has journeyed to the land of our forefathers. Often when (...)

| September 2022 | 3485 views

Mia Couto, Mozambican Writer

António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto (born 5 July 1955), is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary (...)

| September 2022 | 3433 views