Monthly Archives: May 2019

Interview in Shona: Tinashe Muchuri Anokurukura naIgnatius Mabasa

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Munyori Shona Contributing Editor, Tinashe Muchuri, chats with Ignatius Mabasa on story telling in the Ngano genre. The interview is allowed to unfold organically, with all its kinks, knots, pauses, digressions, interruptions and empty spaces. In talking about ngano, the two writers were telling each other ngano; they were both audience and story-teller at the…

Tale by Vuyelwa Maluleke (South Africa)

Vuyelwa Maluleke is a Performance Poet, Scriptwriter and Actor, who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Arts from the University of Witwatersrand. She was shortlisted for the Brunel University African Poetry Prize in 2014, and is the author of the chapbook “THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE”. A slam champion of the Word and…

Ghana Boy by Frances Ogamba

Frances Ogamba’s stories appear in Afridiaspora and Writivism 2016 Short Story Prize Anthology, Dwartonline and Ynaija websites, and on Enkare review. She is a workshop alumnus of Writivism 2016, Ake fiction 2016, and Winter Tangerine 2016. She lives in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Go read her shortlisted story, “Ghana Boy”.

Maserumo by Resoketswe Manenzhe

Resoketswe Manenzhe, author of “Maserumo”, is a PhD candidate with the chemical engineering department at the University of Cape Town; this, after receiving her master’s degree with distinction. Starting in 2015, her poems and short stories have appeared in several online magazines and journals, and in 2017, two of her poems were shortlisted for the Sol…