New editions of Bakwa, Fiyah, Maroko, and the Michigan Quarterly Review are available for your reading pleasure.
Bakwa Magazine
Bakwa is an online and print literary magazine based in Yaoundé, Cameroon founded by Dzekashu MacViban in 2011.
The eleventh edition with the theme “When Love is a Scream” assembles stories, essays, poetry, and translation that contemplate and contextualise the realities and experiences of women. It includes contributions by Jamila Osman, Nadia Ahidjo, Bertille Mbarga, Yvette Yko Tetteh, Deborah Usidamen, Koutoukouté, Gladwell Pamba, Hajaarh Muhammad Bashar, Tsatchou Leïla Fortune, Akua Amankwah, Mx Elle, and Selma Kovich.
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Fiyah
Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction is an American-based magazine of Black speculative fiction. Also referred to as FIYAH, the magazine was announced in September 2016, inspired among others by the 1920s experimental periodical FIRE! created by Wallace Thurman.
Issue 30 features fiction and poetry from Uchechukwu Nwaka, Kathryn H. Ross, Nkereuwem Albert, Plangdi Neple, Amanda Helms, Sara Chisolm, Carré Sadler, H.B. Asari, and Bryant O’Hara.
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Maroko
Márọkọ́ is a print and digital journal published by the Lagos International Poetry Festival. It is named after the thriving migrant community east of the Lagos Lagoon who were violently evicted in the early 90s to make way for one of the most expensive real estate strips in the world. It is a pan-diasporic offering of poems, essays, and photography, keeping our quest to trace a contemporary canon across the contours of black urban experiences.
The newest edition has contributions from Chika Jones, Efe Paul-Azino, Amanda Thomson, Alycia Pirmohamed, Tolu Agbelusi, Heather Parry, and Edwige-Renée Dro.
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Michigan Quarterly Review
Michigan Quarterly Review, founded in 1962, is the University of Michigan’s flagship literary journal, publishing each season a collection of essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews.
The spring edition with a focus on African Writing with contributions of poetry, fiction in multiple genres, and nonfiction has been edited by Chris Abani. The contributors include Chisara Okwu, Fairuz al-Okley, Afua Ansong, Nana Asma’u, Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé, Kwame Dawes, Saddiq Dzukogi, Dalia Elhassan, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, Isra Hassan, Patron Henekou, trans. Patron Henekou and Connie Voisine, Omotara James Gabriel Awuah Mainoo, Hana Meron, Elizabeth Mudenyo, Migwi Mwangi, Sharon Neema, Tolu Ogunlesi, Georgio Russell, Shahilla Shariff, Matthew Shenoda, Jasmine Tabor, Heran Abate, Leye Adenle, Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah, Tom Olali, Amal Sewtohul, Chika Unigwe, Faith Adiele, Chiké Frankie Edozien, C. A. Ekhelar, Emelda Nyaradzai Gwitimah, Glen Retief, Mwanabibi Sikamo, Jérôme Tubiana and Damien Roudeau.
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