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Anthology: Volume 7

Each poem gifts us something better: the struggle to find identities, relations, meanings, and the struggle for a language that can do heavy lifting. Many of the poems grapple with the meaning of family and connection with others, with what we can find in God and what may be needed of us to answer that call properly.

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Otherness and Representation in Writing | Tiwaladeoluwa Adekunle and Arao Ameny

When you are writing, no one on the page says you don’t belong and it becomes a place where you feel completely safe and vulnerable. There’s a certain placeness that comes with writing, existing in that space where you are here and there and here, and it’s a home for some people. – Tiwaladeoluwa Adekunle

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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

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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.