New editions of literary magazines Agbowó, Weganda Review, Ubwali, and Callaloo are available for your reading pleasure.
Agbowó
Agbowó is a pan-African literary and art platform established in 2017. It publishes fiction, poetry, essays, drama, and visual art that explore the richness and complexity of African life and imagination. Through its online magazine, creative collaborations, and cultural advocacy, Agbowó continues to nurture a vibrant community of artists and thinkers across the continent.
The Tenth Issue features a vibrant range of works including fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art from across Africa and the diaspora. Among the contributors are Winifred Òdúnóku, Chimee Adịọha, Ola W. Halim, Idowu Odeyemi, Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi, Ismail Yusuf Olumoh, Osahon Oka, Naomi Nduta Waweru, and visual artists Adaeze Okaro and Ifoghale Wilson. The cover art of the issue, “Genesis” by Adaeze Okaro, beautifully embodies the theme of renewal and creation that threads through the entire collection.
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Weganda Review
The Weganda Review is a literary journal produced in Uganda as a project of the cultural nonprofit Weganda Foundation. The platform, founded by Rodney Muhumuza in 2023, features writers, researchers, academics, artists, and others publishing short fiction, poetry, art portfolios, photography, diaries, reviews, and essays.
The tenth issue contains essays and other writings on the doomed presidential campaign in Uganda of Mugisha Muntu, the child warrior Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh of Dahomey, the root causes of a 2024 landfill disaster just outside Kampala, spiritual aging, death and dying, and forbidden food. The issue includes the diary of a casual laborer in Kampala. Featured poetry is by Yarri Kamara, Frank Njugi, Mulamba Chibesakunda, and Ernest Ògúnyẹmí. Art portfolios belong to Joshua Yiga and Herbert Kalule. The Quote of the Quarter is extracted from The Sheltering Sky, a novel by Paul Bowles.
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Ubwali
Ubwali is a literary magazine that features prose, poetry, and nonfiction, founded by Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Mbozi Haimbe, and Fiske Nyirongo in 2024.
Their latest edition features short stories by Bwanga ‘Benny Blow’ Kapumpa, Mikha Mweetwa, Henry Joe Sakala, Chilufya Nchito, Peter Nawa, and Amani Mosi; essays by Mutinta Nanchengwa and Linda Kasonde; poetry by Lucas Lungu, Taonga Sandema, Bwalya S Kondwani, Kumbutso Chizongo, Tukupashya Ally Kasongo, Mthuzi Mkandawire, Trycent Milimo, and Wendy Chulu; an interview with Cheswayo Mphanza; and visual art by Michelle D’urbano, Natasha Devalia, and Alexander Bandela, and cover art by Michelle D’urbano.
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Callaloo
Callaloo is a quarterly literary journal that publishes creative work and critical studies by and about writers and visual artists of African descent worldwide. It is a highly acclaimed international showcase of arts and letters from the African Diaspora, featuring a mix of fiction, poetry, critical articles, interviews, drama, and visual art.
The latest edition, Callaloo 43.2, features essays, interviews, poetry, photography, and reviews from over 30 contemporary Black writers and artists. It is a general issue curated by Gale Greenlee and Megan Feifer with a special section paying homage to bell hooks, and commemorating the first bell hooks Symposium at Berea College. The contributors include Hiwot Adilow, Topher Allen, O’Neil Arnold, Andre Bagoo, Danny Bellinger, Jodi-Ann Burey, Matthieu Chapman, Megan Feifer Renoir Gaither April Gibson E. Gale Greenlee Mark Winston Griffith Candace Howze E. Hughes, Richard Hamilton, Tatiana Richards Hanebutt, Clemonce Heard, Joy James, Libby Falk Jones, Kassy Lee, M. Shadee Malaklou, Denise Miller, Dashiell Moore, Brian Muraya, Kiana T. Murphy, Joy Notoma, Keenan Norris, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Tony Medina, Natassja B. Gunasena, Shanna L. Smith, Etim Singkem, Dereka Thomas, Alex Tretbar, Tryphena Yeboah, Mia S. Willis, and Randy Winston.
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