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•  Facing Forward, Looking Back • interior artwork by Naddya Adhiambo Oluoch-Olunya
• Last Wave • short story by Ivor W. Hartmann
• The Science of Nail Polish • poem by Lydia Kasese
• Boonoonoonoos Little Bit Boonoonoonoos • short story by Binyavanga Wainaina
• Jestocost, Djinn • short story by Maria A. Bukachi
• Refracted Futures • poem by Alexis Teyie
• eNGAGEMENT • short story by Richard Oduor Oduku
• The Red Bucket, Tango and Nahui Xochitl • short story by Valorie Thomas
• Found: An Error in the System • poem by Serubiri Moses
• Discovering Time Travel • short story by Suleiman Agbonkhianmen Buhari
• A Brief History of Nonduality Studies • (2012) • short story by Sofia Samatar
• A Dark Ghazal • poem by Richard Ali
• Suite of Blue • poem by Richard Ali
• Maybe Things • poem by Richard Ali
• Imaginum • short story by Moses Kilolo
• Daughters of Resurrection • short story by Melissa Kiguwa
• For Digital Girls Who Drink Tonic Water at the Bar When Purple Rain Isn't Enough • short story by Ytasha L. Womack
• Salvation Avenue • short story by Jude Dibia
• Black Woman, Everybody's Healer • short story by Hawa Y. Mire
• Of Angered Gods • poem by Babatunde Fagbayibo
• Merci, Bismarck • poem by Babatunde Fagbayibo
• Oblivia • short story by T. J. Benson
• Elementeita and the End of Kenyan Time • poem by Stephen Derwent Partington
• Where Pumpkin Leaves Dwell • short story by Lillian Akampurira Aujo
• Sublimation • poem by Bethuel Muthee
• Pardon Me • poem by Bethuel Muthee
• Gone • poem by Bethuel Muthee
• Modulation • poem by Bethuel Muthee
• Untitled (I) • poem by Bethuel Muthee
• Untitled (II) • poem by Bethuel Muthee
• Myasthenia Gravis: Liberations • short story by Awuor Onyango
• The Dragon Can't Dance • short story by
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• Secret Insurrection • short fiction by Stephani Maari Booker
• Color Me Grey • short story by Swabir Silayi
• As Element Might Like It • poem by Okwudili Nebeolisa
• Mermaid • poem by Okwudili Nebeolisa
• Glimpse • short story by Rebecca Onyango
• Onen and His Daughter • short story by Dilman Dila
• Party Out • short story by Mwangi Ichung'wa
• Things to Come: Panel Conversation on Afro-Futurism Between Nnedi Okorafor and Sofia Samatar • interview of Nnedi Okorafor and Sofia Samatar • interview by Aaron Bady
• Mawimbi Ya Mwisho [Swahili] • short story by Ivor W. Hartmann (trans. of Last Wave)
• Sleep Naked • poem by Kampire Bahana
• Rebel Music and the African Country • essay by Richard Ali
• I Died with the Earth—A Similitude of the Days of the Destroyer • poem by Richard Oduor Oduku
• Wound (An Excerpt) • short story by John Keene
• Continuum • short story by Zak Waweru
• The Libyan Mummy • short story by Dalle Abraham
• The Veiled Secret of the Kama Sutra or the Way a Certain Poet Interprets the Surrealist Manifesto at Night • poem by Umar Abubakar Sidi
• Letters to the President • short story by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
• The Iguana Boy with Three Testicles • short story by Victor Ehikhamenor
• A Railway Map • essay by Maxamed Sharmarke