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Olufemi Terry

Olufemi Terry is a Sierra Leone–born writer, essayist, and journalist. His short fiction has been published in Guernica, The Georgia Review, Chimurenga, and The Granta Book of the African Short Story, and translated into French. He is the 2010 winner of the Caine Prize for his story “Stickfighting Days.”

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#Kony2005

The writer revisits his notes from 2005 when he visited Acholiland, the site of a conflict between the LRA and Uganda’s military.

Sodade

Meaning is elusive in Cape Verde, but it does result in an existential limbo conducive to creeping, fretful madness.