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Fifth Draft’s September Reading List: Kenyan Readathon Edition
September is tagged as Kenya Readathon month. A project envisioned by Lexa Lubanga to promote Kenyan literature,...

Fifth Draft’s August Reading List
This is a list of short stories/essays that I enjoyed reading through August. With it being the...

Again, I am Allowed to Profess Love to All the Nigerian Movies That Made Me a Better Writer
Before my first crush, everything I loved had no pulsing heart; music, drawing, movies. But my one...

Speak How We Write
“i eat your english” (from) Khadijah Abdalla Bajaber – Art has to make sense, for me. Inaccuracies...

On Beauty and Memories
A boy of six, all legs and a big head is rustling through a stack of books. His...

A Slow-burning Fire: A Conversation with Hussani Abdurahim, Winner of the 2022 Toyin Falola Prize
The day I met the writer Hussani Abdurahim was like every other ordinary day at Usmanu Danfodiyo University,...
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