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Afrolit Sans Frontières: Stories and writers in the comfort of your living room

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Zukiswa Wanner has organised a virtual literary festival, from March 23 to 30, to help readers and writers struggling with self-isolation
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Accra: An Outsider’s Brief Perspective

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"Maybe we see possibilities in each other’s countries that we don’t see in our own."
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Write the future with young adults

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Leaders of this continent need to pay attention to the intellectual need of the majority of the population.
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Border delays because officials can

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Four hours after our arrival in Lagos, the immigration officials must have felt they had sufficiently flexed their muscles
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There’s no sweetness in Kenya’s sugar

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A drama worthy of a Connie and Shona Ferguson production
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I voted yes for land expropriation

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In 1994, 86% of land was white-owned. There had been an agreement that 30% would be transferred by 1999, the date has been shifted to 2025.
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Black Panther is more than just representation

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It has awoken in me a sense of pride and dignity I had no idea I had lost from all those many years of being erased in international public discourse
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A letter to my Xhosa fathers and brothers

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"I am a Xhosa woman who is raising a Xhosa boy. If this is your manhood, madoda, keep it. Your priorities are very skewed".
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The house of stone: A parable

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"Citizens were told to tighten their belts while the political class loosened theirs because their stomachs had become too large".
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Some are more valid than others

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White critics are often put on a pedestal — even when they're telling us things we already know
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We need our own Nobel and an academy

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We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.
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What makes a good bookstore?

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A trip to find the best shops for African literature raised the question of what makes a bookstore worth visiting.
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Three countries. Three heartbreaks. One week

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To be a woman in Kenya, South Africa or Zimbabwe means to be in perpetual fear of some form of abuse at the hands of men
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A case for curiosity and generosity

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Many good writers appear to be solipsists, selfish and even competitive, and unkind. These writers will remain good but will never be great.
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Content for the continent

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<i>African Writing Online</i>'s inaugural issue features Caine Prize winners Brian Chikwava, Helon Habila, local writer Zukiswa Wanner and others. Percy Zvomuya speaks to the editor, Afam Akeh.
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