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Editors' Note

Fiction

The Burdens We Carry
Gladwell Pamba

​Nerima
Peace Mbengei

My Late Grandfather
Kasimma 

Malumbano ya Uke
Duncan Mwangi

Month 2
Ebele Mogo

Black Roses
Jadesola Ajao

Nonfiction

A Boy Called Daddy
P. Ochieng Ochieng