Welcoming writing from writers of all backgrounds engaged in the decolonial project while centering African, African-American, and Black Diaspora writing.

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Audrey Shipp’s “The Decolonial Passage” seeks your entries. jamesmurua.com/audrey-shipps… via @jamesmurua
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Congratulations to our nominees for Best of the Net! This selection contains writing written between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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What do we plant? What can we grow? Read the poem "The Land Remembers" by Gloria D. Gonsalves. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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Issue #3 Ecology continues with the interrogative: "Why did the plastic bag cross the road?" A poem by Nsisong Udosen. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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Changes in nature and society. The story: "Frenzy" by Ryan Hesketh. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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Issue #3: Ecology. Read the poem "Crickets" by E.D. Watson. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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Against the tedium of daily life, nature. Read the poem by Thomas Piekarski. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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In Zoe Mahfouz's flash fiction, the author presents an allegory for contamination, memory, and survival. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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In the face of climate change, what happens when inhabitants of a land abandon indigenous architecture for designs from the West? Read the personal essay "Tombs Called Homes" by @Ami_Tamakloe. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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The river hydrates, nourishes, remembers in the personal essay by Jonas Attilus. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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Whales, ferns, moss, small leafy plants. Read the "witching snare" poem by Wenmimareba Collins Klobah @WK_Collins. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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When eucalyptus trees were planted in Ethiopia, the result was not what was expected. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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We've published Parker Munson in the Ecology Issue. Read his poem on the link. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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Take in "The View from Cabrillo Ave" and get a glimpse of our ecological future." thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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In the poem "Oh Tree" by Sethunya Hlobisa Matsie," the tree is alive. But what happened to the woman and her child? Read Issue #3: Ecology. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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One of the many problems of Nigeria, is her inability to grapple with her dark past—the Nigeria/Biafra war, religious, ethnic, tribal, and political riots. History was removed from Nigerian school curriculum in 2008, only to be reintroduced years later. Read this piece!
This flash nonfiction piece pushes the boundaries of the genre as the narrative voice retraces childhood to adulthood, crosses continents, and compares societies. Read "Time Lapse" by Augustine Obasi @AuggieFilms thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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This flash nonfiction piece pushes the boundaries of the genre as the narrative voice retraces childhood to adulthood, crosses continents, and compares societies. Read "Time Lapse" by Augustine Obasi @AuggieFilms thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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Memories are erased in William Nesbitt's poem "Locations." thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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Julia Yong gives us words for poems in "first i ask the." thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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Read Nicole Spiegel-Gotsch who questions the literary canon as her poem ruminates on Kafka, Dickens, Angelou. thedecolonialpassage.net/202…
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