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Look Where You Have Gone to Sit (Edited by Martin Egblewogbe and Laban Carrick Hill) The Writers Project of Ghana has released the first of a series of anthologies titled Look Where You have Gone to Sit.  Edited by Martin Egblewogbe and Laban Carrick Hill and published by Woeli Publishing Services in Accra, Look Where You have Gone to Sit  features the work of nineteen new writers, presenting exciting writings across different themes. Writers Project of Ghana intends to continue its efforts to put out more anthologies of Ghanaian writing; consequently, there will be a launch for the next anthologies for 2011 later this year, one for poetry and another for short stories. Copies of this anthology would be available in all bookstores soon, so keep looking. I have a poem, Finding My Voice , in this anthology. For more information contact martin@writersproject.com. Together by Julius Chingono and John Eppels Co-published by 'amaBooks (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), University of KwaZulu-N...

Five poems of mine have been published in the Fifth Issue of Sentinel Nigeria . These are: The Man and The People Every Piece Shall Go, These Impartial Cleaners Merchants of Menace Private Existence Horrorscope Click here to read the poems . And while there please take time to explore the rich content the site carries.

I am happy to tell you that four poems of mine have been published by Munyori Literary Journal at munyori.com. My poems are featured alongside R.S. Carlson (USA), Louie Crew (USA), Lian Yujing (China), Mike Mware (Zimbabwe). There are also fiction by Miriam Shumba, Kudazi Ndanga, and NoViolet Bulawayo (all from Zimbabwe), Joanne Hillhouse (Antigua), Patrick O. Ochieng (Kenya) and an interview of Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistan) by Sunil Sharma (India), and a book review by Memory Chirere (Zimbabwe). And more! The poems featured are: Savages are We A Curve in the Tell (A Direct Response to Naipaul's The Masque of Africa ) Devolution Abracadabra Adabraka Click here to read.

Last December, I had the privilege of being featured in the Dust Magazine. My poem Middle Sex  and a brief biography were published. You can read it here . You would have to scroll down to read. This same poetry was also published at the Writers Project of Ghana . The following poems have also been published in JENdA ! No. 17 (2010): African Women in Dimension: Part I: In the Line of Darkness Eyes in the Window The African Woman

I woke up this morning to a fantastic news: ImageNations has been listed as one of the best 40 blogs for African Studies Students organised by Accredited Online College. This is what the release says: Though it appears every night on the news, there’s plenty that most people don’t understand about the African continent. Many students, fascinated by the snippets of politics and culture that seep through the media, classrooms and museums, take to studying the diverse peoples and places that come to define it. Whether they focus more on the art or the economics (and everything in between!), they discover the realities that lay both behind and beyond the familiar images of children with AK-47s and emaciated villagers. Even those who have not chosen such a major, minor or elective should still make an effort to understand the truth of the African nations — their strengths, their weaknesses, their relationships, their history and their cultures. Though neither comprehensive nor...

I had the privilege of being featured by author and editor Emmanuel Sigauke's blog, Wealth of Ideas , where I talked about the books I have read so far in 2010, my choice of books and what I think of readership in Africa. Visit Wealth of Ideas to read these.