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
Potential to Kinetic: Harnessing Literary Festivals for Artvocacy
An essay from Nigeria Angela Umoru-David
We Paint Dust and Weave Wind
A meditation on preserving culture in hostile territory, and the peace of coming home for the first time — from Taeya Boi-Doku
The One After Us
Three poems about cosmic beauty — from John Phebe Ifeoluwa
Dear God, I Need a Best Friend
A story about an obsessive girl who’d do anything to create the female friendship of her dreams — from Adedeji Rianat
Kazungu’s Concubine
A short, unconventional love story about a young woman navigating a complex and emotionally fraught relationship — from Doreen Masika
When My Time Is Up
Poems exploring the themes of love, heartbreak, and how much grief mortifies the soul — by Dafe Great
For Each Crushing Phase
A story on crushing your crush — from Joy Ogbitse
The Wayward Ways of Lydia Hayworth
A story about a Coloured woman classified white in apartheid South Africa, and her search for belonging — by Fiyola Hoosen-Steele
Lit Fire
Four poems from Moroccan Youssef Oubihi
African Spirituality is Not Evil
An essay on African Spirituality and our need as Africans — from Valerie Tendai Chatindo
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