African writers and publishers should place themselves at the forefront of innovating both the forms and formats of fiction. 

And so again, we encourage Africans who care about literature and quality editing to apply for the 2025 Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellowship at A Long House.

‘Pemi Aguda & Uche Okonkwo in conversation about “Form and Destiny”

“I asked the two if they knew where Okot p’Bitek’s grave was. They didn’t, and neither did they know who that was…”

i’ve watched leaves raining down from their mother tree,
yours was a droplet of salt on our wounds.

In a Nebraska grocery store, packets of corn yellow 
at me from the shelves and I’m back to the planting  
season, when the rains have appeased the land.

everything I am 
is wanting & needing/

every bone, every 
hollow, this image/

is a god fashion-made for you/

But you can see me there.
In the picture of the birds. 
In the church of avian beings. 
Small, colorful, and endangered.

“Titled after Malick Sidibe’s work of the same name, which means “Look at me” in English, I
collect pictures that speak to the pattern of beauty of the Black and/or African woman.”
—Mayowa Oyewale

he insists, we lost the civil war 
because i kept aiming at a god, only i could see
hiding behind a cloud.

how do i tell him that he’s my grandfather 
& i wasn’t born until 28 years after the war?