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Anthology: Volume 6

The volume ushers us into the presence of that longing everyone knows within their skin, sometimes, denying, but a longing we however carry forever, and uncovering that longing, that pain, the ironies that define us, we find healing. Each poem takes us on a journey we must navigate, whether it be a persona piece deconstructing the “Brenda Fassie” the poet sees or that of the lone worshiper seeking to find God.

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Navigating Grief, Rituals, and Criticism in African Poetry | Henneh Kyereh Kwaku and Àkpà Arinzechukwu

I attempted to write toward joy (beloved, here’s my confession), I wrote the saddest poems I have ever written. But the other truth about those poems is that there are bursts of joy all around them, and such is life – joy here and there, but also despair. – Henneh Kyereh Kwaku

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“Storytelling Makes Us Feel More Like a Community” – An Interview with Martin Egblewogbe

One of the things that stories do is enhance our interconnectedness and help us understand the world better and try to remove that hermetically sealed mind space. Thinking about it, it’s quite possible to go through life believing that everything around you don’t exist and you create everything that is there because you live in your head. How do you then know that other people exist and feel what you feel? One way to see a different perspective of life other than yours is by communication, storytelling – Martin Egblewogbe

Discover New Poets

Phodiso Modirwa

Phodiso Modirwa is a Motswana writer whose works appear in Guernica Magazine, Brittle Paper Magazine, Jalada Africa, 20.35 Africa, Lolwe, Agbowo and elsewhere. Her chapbook “Speaking In Code” was published by Akashic Books, as part of the New Generation African Poets Box Set: Tisa.