Akuko - Issue 01

Akuko magazine is on a mission to provide a platform for writers and artists from the African continent and its Diaspora to share their stories and creativity.

For our inaugural issue, we ran a competition and accepted entries in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The pieces in this issue are the winning entries and honorable mentions for each category.

Editorial Preface

When we started out last year, we had one goal: to publish African stories from around the globe. Our definition of who is African was and remains broad; anyone whose heritage can be traced back to the continent. We asked writers to tell us stories — real and imagined, in poetry or in prose — that elevate Blackness. That’s a very tall order because what does it mean to elevate Black cultures and languages?

Editorial Preface

“Like the sonorous proverb do we drum the agidigbo (drum); it is the wise who dance to it, and the learned who understand its language.”

D. O FAGUNWA TRANSLATED BY WOLE SOYINKA
THE FOREST OF A THOUSAND DAEMONS

“Like the sonorous proverb do we drum the agidigbo (drum); it is the wise who dance to it, and the learned who understand its language.”

D. O FAGUNWA TRANSLATED BY WOLE SOYINKA
THE FOREST OF A THOUSAND DAEMONS

Non-Fiction

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