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KESANDU
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Weep and Dance
This had not been his first marriage. He had been tied for seemingly interminable years to a shrew whose very existence had carved premature lines on his handsome face. Her ...
AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers
It’s an exciting time for African science fiction, marked most recently by the release of StoryTime’s ‘AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers’, a short story collection edited by Zimbabwean writer ...
Leah Griesmann Wins Litro’s Random House Books Giveaway
Recently, we asked our readers to send in a short review of their favourite book of 2012. We’re pleased to announce that our favourite review was by Leah Griesmann, of Krys ...
What’s Your Favourite Book of 2012? Tell Us and Win Two Random House Books!
What’s your favourite book this year? Tell us about it in under 250 words. We’ll compile a handful of our selections in a Litro Online feature, and our ...
‘The Sex Lives of African Girls’ by Taiye Selasi
The title of Taiye Selasi’s debut short story is as blunt as it is ironic, proclaiming bold content while quietly mocking Western anthropological theses of old. I first came upon ...
Feature Film: White Material
There’s a scene early on in Claire Denis’ tenth film in which a child soldier fingers a cheap-looking gold lighter and refers to it as “just white material”. What does ...
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Litro #120: Africa
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Litro #120: Africa — Letter from the Editor
How much do you know about Africa? We tend to speak of it as though it’s one giant, inscrutable territory, and yet Africa contains 54 different countries, all with different ...
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Grass Wars
The herd wakes me, hungry again and baying for grass, green and juicy. They huddle round the basher, lowing and groaning. Their rolling backsides butt up against the bent branches. ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #120: Africa
Harare Revisited
Harare was always a plum to me, a gorgeous memory; blue-black, full and ripe, luxurious and sweet to the tongue. I recall a veranda fringed city, snug with waiters, sunk ...
Digital Subscriptions, Litro #120: Africa, Poetry
Fragments of Bone
Let me begin again, I say, as the bar blurs
invisible, its volume reduced to the merest
suggestion of others and it’s just us spotlit
in the black womb-like silence of theatre
and your ...
Digital Subscriptions, Litro #120: Africa, Travel&Lifestyle
A New Focus on Africa
It was 3:30 in the afternoon sometime in 2010 and I was just about to leave for Heathrow Terminal 5—virtually my second home—to catch a flight to Mozambique when my ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #120: Africa
Extract from Tomorrow I’ll be Twenty
I imagine her as a young girl, turning boys’ heads. Somehow she manages to forget I’m there, and imagine it’s someone different listening to her, her eyes are somewhere above ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #120: Africa
Menengai
Menengai, Alex our guide tells us, means “the place where God is not”. It is a word from the Masai, the great African tribe that traverse the land with their ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #119: Ghosts
Jellyfish
Seabirds haunt an area where the contents of a bucket have been tossed. I see fish-heads. Entrails. Farther along, I almost step on a dead jellyfish. Its skin is transparent. ...