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Anthology: Volume 9

20.35 Africa Vol. IX highlights the poetry of some of contemporary letters’ most brilliant and audacious poets living in and beyond the continent. This anthology, which boasts voices from nine nationalities, is as kaleidoscopic in its thematic range as it is manifold in its aesthetic approaches.

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Anena and Sarah

The Ideal Writing Life: Exploring our Relationship to Subject Matter, Writing Rituals, and the Academy | Ber Anena and Sarah Yanni

In the past few years, I’ve written less “about” my identity and more about larger questions concerning themes like legibility, history, gender, queerness, memory, and myth and my identity is simply informing that work, and the way the language unfolds. – Sarah Yanni

Read Interviews

Reimagining and Reconstructing History is the Poet's Duty – An Interview with Michael Imossan

The young poet is moved by his innate disposition towards emotions, and because the poet is a member of the society, their writings – whether personal or public – are necessitated by the fact of his membership hence the politics, hence the role of nationhood in their education.

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Scott Frost

Scott Frost is a Ghanaian poet/writer and Biomedical Sciences student whose work explores identity, memory, love, death, and hope, drawing from Ghanaian oral traditions and lived experience. He was the first runner-up in the New Voices Poetry Contest 2025, and his work has been exhibited at the e-Ananse Library in Ghana and archived in the Museum of African Poetry.

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At 20.35 Africa, we seek to build towards the future of African letters that our readers, contributors, and staff deserve – one that uplifts living African poets from all over the continent and the diaspora. This effort is sustained by a committed team whose work is mostly pro bono. 20.35 Africa has thus thrived over the years through the sheer passion of its members, who share an understanding of the imperative position of their work. The other half of that work is you and we hope you will help us continue building into the future with your contributions. 

Your generous support helps us pay for the administrative and general operating costs of running this organization. We want to thank you in advance for supporting living African poets and the pursuit of crafting a new contemporary voice, a collection of voices. Our publications remain free and open to the public for consumption. Your generosity and continuous support make all of this possible.

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