Analysis - For 10 years, Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes and his friend the Nigerian writer Chris Abani have sifted through piles of manuscripts looking for Africa's new poetic talent. Since 2014, the ...
Opinion

The legacy of our national song

On 7 November, the lyric that has lodged itself in the political and emotional memory of modern India – Vande Mataram – completed 150 years since its composition.
Among them was Glenna Manchego, known by her call sign BabyDoc. At twenty-five, she has already lived a life that few novels ...
Our great grandfather hadn’t crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 112 years — but he was about to.  Maybe not all of him, but a ...
Writing is much like a high ropes course, Weston Morrow said. It’s about overcoming fear — fear of the blank page, of being ...