Kalahari Review
A home for African writing
Derek Workman
Editor-in-Chief Gaborone Magazine and Kalahari Review
The Kalahari Review
Where Africa tells her stories
Latest Posts
Aiskrimu
A short story about the agony and the ecstasy of eating ice cream — from Esther Karin Mngodo, translated from the Swahili by Jay Boss Rubin
Mo(u)rning Glory
Poems about (un)becoming and a mother’s legacy, etched in every line — from Zambian Natasha Nsemiwe
When AI Is Your Therapist
A short story about a young Nupe man who grapples with the meaning of love — from Ndakotsu Abubakar
Life Of The Third World
Poems about actual facts about life in third world countries — by Buay Franco Kai
A Language My People Speak Even In Their Sleep
A personal essay in which the narrator amplifies, with varied experiences, our tenderness for money — from Michael Akuchie
The Fear of Borning Àbíkú
A story about when the heart and genetics collide — by Opeoluwa Ogunsola
Offering & Alekhine’s Defence
Two poems from Jubril Badmus
Cell
A short story fiction about the rot in Nigeria’s justice system — from Ene Afoma Lynda
The Afterlife of Silence
Two poems try to make sense of an inter-generational fracturing — from Jeremy Tiboth
Not Too Young to Run
A short essay on the displacement of a young Nigerian — from Chinua Godwin Emeana
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