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When Nana Kwame died, I avoided his mother like the plague. In the weeks leading up to the funeral, I mourned him from the safety of my home – some one hundred steps away from the brown gate that [...]

Writers Space Africa (Ghana), a chapter of the Writers Space Foundation, has published a biannual magazine called Awens3m, which literally translates as ‘woven words.’ Ghana is one of [...]

I feel it coming… Ensuring stability with every move__ As she did alone. Gone but, My mother and I are one. Come and go__ Stressing out on the who & what – Casket, food, family [...]

Silhouette of Green, red and yellow overlapped is the star of yellow, Millions are united from diverse tribes, Talented souls all around the land, Hearts are crossed to be patriotic to this land. [...]

If you were like me, a 21-year-old sassy and trending Burundian influencer whose phone is about to die and is stranded on a road trip with an eccentric and nearly-dysfunctional family, you would [...]

When I saw the theme for this call for submission, one thing that called to me was the word, “Tomorrow.” This word brought my mind to a link between tomorrow and the people of today or the past. [...]

I hail from Ghana where during my childhood, the months of November, December, and January, were jokingly tagged as winter months. Of course, we had no snow but these months were ridiculously [...]

I was blind at the sight of light At a wink, pleasure won over integrity and sanity It breaks me every time; Memories of that dark night Just then, I felt these chilled winds I couldn’t find my [...]

A breath to breathe again and again In relaxation with wine at hand Sighting a subsiding storm That once roared and raged Shaking your very existence, A sleep to sleep again and again Having [...]

My future instantaneously turned bleak the moment I found out I had been posted to Charti M/A Primary School. Accra was my home and the pursuit of my ambitions was a guaranteed smoother process [...]