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Our second issue is now LIVE! 🎉🙌🏾💃🏾

We are thrilled to present our second issue and are excited to see how our themes continue to resonate with readers.

The theme “Omission” examines concepts of erasure, white lies, and conceit.

The featured writers have risen to the occasion in exploring this theme and exceeded our expectations with their remarkable creativity and unique perspectives.

We are deeply grateful to our guest editors, @adedayoagarau , @happymalatta , and @ayodejirotinwa , for their invaluable support and hard work in bringing this issue to life.

We hope you enjoy this collection exploring the people, ideas, and places that speak to this issue’s theme. Click the #linkinbio to read Issue 2.

Cover image: @hickmatuleigh

#podapodastories #blackstories #omission #africanwriters by @podapodastories

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3 months ago

Happy #internationalliteracyday! 🎊🎉📚📚📖

Today and always, we celebrate those who are invested in childhood literacy and helping children read and fall in love with books!

For International Literacy Day this year, Poda-Poda Stories interviewed Ama King, the founder of Sierra Learners and Congo Town Community Library in Freetown. King spoke about the importance of early childhood literacy and how parents, teachers, and other community members can help children become good readers.

Story is linked in our bio ! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🇸🇱🇸🇱📚📚

#podapodastories #internationalliteracyday #reading #childhoodliteracy by @podapodastories

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a month ago

We love libraries and are so thankful that an institution like the Sierra Leone Library Board still exists!

“Even though we are now competing with technology, we still know our place in society. We know that we are providers of relevant information. We know that we are curators of historical knowledge, “ says Dunstanette I.O. Bodkin, the Deputy Chief Librarian of the Sierra Leone Library Board.

In this virtual interview with Poda-Poda Stories, Bodkin spoke to Ngozi Cole about the importance of childhood reading and why public libraries will always be relevant, even in the age of AI. #clicklinkinbio to read the full interview.

#podapodastories #publiclibraries #thisissierraleone🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱 #childhoodliteracy #childhoodreading #sierraleone #sierraleoneanskillingit🇸🇱❤️ by @podapodastories

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a year ago

Please join us in welcoming Mariam Fofana @mariamfofanaa to the team! 🎉👏🏾 Mariam is joining us as a new intern, and we are so happy to have a fresh perspective on board. 🚌🚌

Mariam Fofana is a Sierra Leonean junior at Northwestern University studying Anthropology, History, and Chinese. Her research work zeroes in on West African diasporic life, with a particular focus on migration, memory, and the ways people rebuild belonging across borders. She is especially interested in using storytelling as an archive of the experiences that comprise the Black experience.

Welcome Mariam! 🇸🇱🇸🇱🎉🎉 by @podapodastories

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6 months ago

Happy Wednesday! 🙌🏾💃🏾

#merchdrop #podapodastories #ourstoriestotheworld by @podapodastories

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7 months ago

🚨It’s a pleasure to have Adedayo Agarau as our guest editor for poetry!🙌🏾🎊

•Agarau is the winner of the 2024 C.P. Cavafy Prize. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University ‘25 and a Cave Canem Fellow. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Agbowó Magazine: A Journal of African Literature and Art and a Poetry Reviews Editor for The Rumpus. Adedayo’s debut collection, “The Years of Blood,” which won the Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize, was published by Fordham University Press in September 2025. Agarau is a creative writing Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California.

•We are excited for him to read your poems! Click on the #linkinbio to read the submission guidelines for our second issue, themed “ Omission”.
#podapodastories #africanliterature #africanpoetry #adedayoagarau by @podapodastories

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7 months ago

🚨We are so excited to welcome Nadia Maddy as the guest fiction editor for our second issue! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🎊

Maddy is a London-based writer, producer and filmmaker of Sierra Leonean descent. Her debut novel The Palm Oil Stain, set during the Sierra Leonean Civil War, was featured on BBC Radio and is cited in the Bloomsbury academic anthology War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment (2022). Her second novel, Corpo Seco, is a work of speculative fiction weaving together Brazilian mysticism and African folklore. She has also written and produced for Channel 4 and the BBC, and runs a creative writing competition for young adults in Sierra Leone.

We can’t wait for Maddy to read your stories-don’t miss the submission deadline! Click on the #linkinbio to read the submission guidelines. #podapodastories #africanstories #nadiamaddy #africanliterature by @podapodastories

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7 months ago

🚨We are so excited to welcome Ayodeji Rotinwa as the nonfiction guest editor for our second issue!🙌🏾🙌🏾

•Rotinwa is a Nigerian journalist, writer, and editor whose work explores the intersections of culture, art, and politics across Africa and its diaspora. His reporting and criticism examine contemporary artistic production, cultural movements, and the political conditions that shape them, often focusing on how artists respond to moments of social upheaval and historical reckoning.

He has reported extensively on issues including the restitution of African artefacts from Western museums, press freedom, migration, and the global backlash against queer and women’s rights. Rotinwa’s work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Financial Times, Reuters, Frieze, Artforum, National Geographic, The Continent, THISDAY, and Mail & Guardian. Through both text and audio, he documents the cultural and political forces shaping contemporary African life.

• We invite writers from Africa and the African diaspora to submit their essays and life writing for our “Omission “ issue. Click on the #linkinbio for more details. #podapodastories #africanliterature #nonfiction #africanwriters by @podapodastories

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7 months ago

📣📣We are excited to announce our new call for submissions! The theme for our second issue is “Omission.”

We invite writers in all stages of their writing careers to submit their works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that align with the theme of Omission. We are interested in works that engage concepts of concealment, conceit, white lies, and more. Omission may also operate at the level of subject, memory, language, or form.

We welcome submissions from writers who identify as African or those of African descent, whether residing on the continent or in the African diaspora.

Please click the #linkinbio to read the full submission guidelines. We can’t wait to read your work, and don’t miss the March 30 deadline!

PC 📷: @hickmatuleigh

#podapodastories #africanwriters #africanliterature #readblack by @podapodastories

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8 months ago

“Just write. Take any idea you have, then put pen to paper. You may doubt yourself and your work, but a blank page will always be worse than anything you could write. Above all else, make sure that there’s passion behind your words.”

Sierra Leonean writer Hafeez Taqi talks to @podapodastories’ Mayenie Conton about being a published author and his debut short story collection. Click on the #linkinbio to read the full interview.

#podapodastories #sierraleoneanskillingit🇸🇱❤️ #salonelit #readblack by @podapodastories

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8 months ago

We are excited to share our inaugural issue, Mundanity, in which writers from Nigeria, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and beyond explore what the concept of the mundane means to them.
To read, click on the link in our bio.
#podapodastories #blackwriters #africanwriters #africanliterature by @podapodastories

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10 months ago

We are so excited to share our Mundanity-themed issue!

Writers from South Africa, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and more expressed how the mundane played a significant role in our lives.

We invite you to explore the work that they’ve crafted so diligently. Click the #linkinbio to read this issue. 🔥💃🏾💃🏾🎉

📷 @barriebaggins

#podapodastories by @podapodastories

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