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BOOK REVIEWS

H. Boima Fahnbulleh’s Novel: Behind God’s Back
Abdoulaye W. Dukulé (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006)

Thinking About Postconflict Liberia: Sawyer’s Plunder, Levitt’s Evolution
D. Elwood Dunn (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

An Introspective View of Amos Sawyer’s Beyond Plunder
Pianapue Kept Early (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006)

The Confessions of General Butt Naked
Stephanie C. Horton (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

A Clash of Cultures in Sankawulo’s Sundown At Dawn, A Liberian Odyssey
Nvasekie N. Konneh (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005)

“Massa Day Done”: Sonny Jim of Sandy Point by S.B. Jones-Hendrikson
Duncan McGibbon, Guest Reviewer (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

A Review of Thomas Kai Toteh’s novel, African Child from Wizard to Refugee
Ima Myers, Guest Reviewer (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

Mleyaun: A Man from Nyaake
A Review of The Native Boy: An Autobiography of a Man from Nyaake By William K. Reeves
Ray Martin Toe (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Soapmaker and the Catholic Priest
Kwame Ahenakwah (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

September 11, 2001
Keith Neville Asumuyaya Best (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

Words On The Line
Abdoulaye W. Dukulé (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

The Red Light on Broad Street
James V. Dwalu (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

Tips for Proper Snowe Removal: The Do’s and Don’t’s
George K. Fahnbulleh (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

Gramma Fanny
Lydia S. Freeman-Johnson (Volume 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006)

What Will Happen To All That Beauty?
Stephanie Horton (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005)

Letter To My Parents On The Differences Between Us
M. A. K. (Vol 1, Issue 2, Nov. 2004)

Games We Played, and, Palm Wine in My Belly
Ophelia S. Lewis (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005)

Lucky Victim
M. Woryonwon Roberts (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

I Dressed in Green
Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

Trek to Freedom
Robert Sesay (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

Tales from the Djuankadju
Creation Epic of the Bassa
Robert Gbatiae Tikpor (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

Gbapleh and Liberian Women in America
Ray Martin Toe (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

Political Orosonjo
Ray Martin Toe (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

Zamakolo
Ray Martin Toe (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

Strange Hunters in the Jungle
Thomas Kai Toteh (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

ESSAYS

On Liberian Literature: “The Name of the Sound, and the Sound of the Name”
Eva Acqui (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Albert Porte Of Crozierville
Keith Neville Asumuyaya Best (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

Aaron: Breaking Out
Keith Neville Asumuyaya Best (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

A Taste of Teage
Carl Patrick Burrowes (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

The Search for Peace and the Critical Role of Women
Horace Campbell, Guest Writer (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

A Great Salute to Master Artist Designer-Original A. Fallah B.
Doughba Carmo Caranda (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Capitalizing on Livelihoods in the Rubber Sector to Anchor Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Liberia
Jeanine M. Cooper (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

Language and Religion in the Danish West Indies: Oldendorp’s Findings
Vincent O. Cooper (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2008)

Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood: The Value of Tradition in a Non-Traditional World
Jolanda Cornish, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

The Before and the After: A Cry and Call for Our Children
Rachel Gbenyon Diggs (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Citizenship and the Potential for National Disinheritance
Jestina Doe-Anderson (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

Beyond the War: Liberian Women’s Other Horror Stories
Jestina Doe-Anderson (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

Overcoming Subordination: The Struggle of Women in Liberia Continues
Jestina Doe-Anderson (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

Beyond the Hardened Caricatures: Perspectives on Immigrant Youth Development
Emmanuel Dolo (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

Perils and Promise: Toward A New Generation of Women Leaders
Emmanuel Dolo (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

“See what they are doing with this woman”: Voicing Sexual and Physical Abuse in Gayl Jones’s Eva’s Man
Carrza DuBose (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Toward a Black Queer Literature: James Baldwin’s and Thomas Glave’s Politics of Sexual Irony
Carrza DuBose, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

Art in Liberia
Abdoulaye W. Dukulé (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Literary Education and Canon Formation: The Liberian Experience
S. Kpanbayeazee Duworko (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

The Media and Liberia’s Quest for Leaders
H. Boima Fahnbulleh, Jr. (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

Notes on the Current Political Climate: We Must Run While They Walk!
H. Boima Fahnbulleh, Jr. (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005)

African Verse & the Cultural Forces in World Poetry
Gbanabom Hallowell, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

The Claustrophobia of Exile: African Poets Writing in the “Wasteland”
Gbanabom Hallowell, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

Journeying Through Poetry
Ruby M. Harmon (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

From Ear To Page: Oral and Aural Qualities of Black Literatures
CoCo Harris (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

Matrix or Third Eye: Red or Blue Pill for African Socialization
Asa G. Hilliard III, Guest Writer (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005)

To Be an African Teacher
Asa G. Hilliard III (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Pioneering in Indigenous Banking
An excerpt from, Memoirs of A. Romeo Horton: For Country, Africa and My People
(published posthumously in 2005)
A. Romeo Horton (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

Jamaican Bloodline: A Personal Family History
Francis Leo Milner Horton, Sr. (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

Ackee and Codfish, My Grandfather’s Table
Stephanie C. Horton (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

Heretical Language (or) Language of Identity: Pidgin, Creole and Vernacular [Prose of Identity] in Post-Colonial Fiction
Stephanie C. Horton (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

The Dance She Knows: Sexualization, Stigmatization, Marginalization, Male Power & Control
Stephanie C. Horton (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

Rejecting the Gaze: A Critique of Russell Banks’ The Darling
Stephanie C. Horton (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005)

Liberia: 2005 Elections and the Challenges Ahead
Thomas Jaye (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

Liberia: The Way Forward
Thomas Jaye (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005)

Security Sector Reform in Liberia
Thomas Jaye (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

West African Contemporary Politics: A Critical Perspective
Thomas Jaye (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

The New Divide
Michael Jones (Vol. 2, Issue 1, Feb. 2004)

Walking with Greatness in Simplicity
Eulogy for Aaron Fallah Brown
Ounzuba Kemeh-Gama (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

A Cousin’s Tribute to Aaron Brown
Grace Kolliesuah (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Our Columbus, Ohio, Aaron Fallah Brown
Marie Kromah-Sherif (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

History, Political Discourse, and Narrative Strategies in the African Novel: Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé
Paschal B. Kyiiripuo Kyoore, Guest Writer (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

“(Black) Heads, You Win . . .”
Edgar Lake (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

I Called Him Dr. Brown
Leslie Lumeh (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Speedy
Henry Mamadi Mamulu (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

The Choice of Islam: Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Rejection of Christianity in Black-Nationalist Discourse
Cassandra Mark (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

Amy Ashwood Garvey, Marcus Garvey’s First Wife, Visits Liberia in 1946-47
An excerpt from, Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No 1, Or, A Tale of Two Amies
Tony Martin (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

Flower Garden
Wayetu Moore (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

Gronah Boys, Pop Doe and Revolution: Monrovia in the 1970s
Anthony Morgan, Jr. (Vol 1, Issue 1, Aug. 2004)

Kru Wars: Southeastern Revolt in 19th to Early 20th Century Liberia
Anthony Morgan, Jr. (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Mt. Sinai and Beyond
Robtel Neajai Pailey (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

Slavery Ain’t Dead
Robtel Neajai Pailey (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

This, too, is Liberia!
Robtel Neajai Pailey (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Can Mama Ellen Deliver Liberty to Liberia?
Tajudeen Abdul Raheem, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

A Home with Endless Space
Althea Romeo-Mark (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

The Barclays: A Barbadian-Liberian Connection
Althea Romeo-Mark (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

Marcus Garvey’s Liberian Dream Deferred
Althea Romeo-Mark (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

African Folklore: A Key Component Of Caribbean Survival
Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

Liberian-American Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

The Building Blocks of a Thriving Nation
Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005)

The Importance of Liberia Sea Breeze Journal
Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

A.B. My Brother, Mentor, and True Friend
Eugene Scott (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Homecoming
Vamba Sherif (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

Behind the Numbers: Untold Suffering in the Congo
Keith Harmon Snow and David Barouski, Guest Writers (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

African Unifier Kwame Nkrumah’s Polarizing Identity
Emmanuel Jeh Taryon (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

K-Moses Nagbe: A Contemporary African Writer at Work
Ray Martin Toe (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

The Real Mark of a Revolutionary: A Tribute to Boley N’dorbor, 1959 – 1990
Ray Martin Toe (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

A Wink from Juba Mek Betsy Understand: A Personal Look at Proverbs
Elaine Warren-Jacobs (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

Writing as a Way of Life
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

A Cultural Autobiography: ‘The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here’?
Korto Williams (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Oil Trip
Emira Woods (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

A Warrior Spirit
Vera Oye Yaa-Anna (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

FICTION

Captain Sneider
A Short Story
Eva Acqui (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005)

Quiwonkpa
A Short Story
Eva Acqui (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005)

Warlords
A Short Story Excerpt
Eva Acqui (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

Cleansing
A Short Story
Doeba Bropleh (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Death Rituals
A Short Story
Doeba Bropleh (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

Dinner at Hayley’s
A Short Story
Robert H. Brown (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

Election Fever in Darkeria
A Short Story
Obed W. Dolo (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005)

See Death By Sea
A Short Story
Abdoulaye W. Dukulé (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005)

Dahn’s Battle
A Short Story
Worlea Saywah Dunah (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006)

In Union Strong
A Short Story
Gbanabom Hallowell (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

Friday Night Fish Fry
A Short Story
Joanne C. Hillhouse (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

The Earthly Part
A Novel Excerpt
Stephanie Horton (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

The Invertebrate World
A Short Story Excerpt
Stephanie Horton (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

Living With the Dead
A Short Story
Omari Jackson (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Kiyee is Deceived
A Folktale
Dave Toh Jah & Dennis Chewlae Jah (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

The Greedy Rabbit
A Folktale
Dave Toh Jah & Dennis Chewlae Jah (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Dabuteh
A Short Story
Karamoh Kabba (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006)

Bobby
A Short Story
Cassandra Mark (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

Beyond Anxiety
A Short Story
Nathaniel N. P. Nah, Sr. (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006)

Slit Dream
A Short Story
Gladys Orisavbia (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Exiled
A Novel Excerpt
Angela M. Peabody (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

Sara of Sinoe
A Short Story
Tregenza Roach (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

The Deaf-Mute
A Short Story
Wilton Sankawulo Sr. (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

The Legend of Seimavile Halingi
A Short Story
Wilton Sankawulo Sr. (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

I Will Pay You When I Grow Up
A Short Story
Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

Ma Chrisma On You
A Short Story
Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

The Weeping Girl of Digei
A Short Story
Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005)

Redemption Road
A Novel Excerpt
Elma Shaw (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

Bound to Secrecy
Vamba Sherif (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

The Land of the Fathers
A Novel Excerpt
Vamba Sherif (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

The Kingdom of Sebah
A Novel Excerpt
Vamba Sherif (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

The Prowl
A Short Story
Charlina Daitouah Smith (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006)

Mount Smoke
A Novel Excerpt
Thomas Kai Toteh (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

Anancy and the Medicine Man
A Short Story
Lorraine A. Watson (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

INTERVIEWS

After Years of Silence, K. M. Nagbe Again!
Eva Acqui (Vol 2, Issue 1, Feb. 2004)

Cecilia Armena King: The Woman Behind the Drawings
Stephanie C. Horton (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

The Exilic Lens: Liberian Filmmaker Gerald K. Barclay
Stephanie C. Horton (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

Birds of the Same Plumage: The Heart is What Gives Love
Painter H. Wantue Major on Art
Stephanie C. Horton (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

Miatta Fahnbulleh: A Lyrical History
Stephanie C. Horton (Vol 1, Issue 1, Aug. 2004)

Stanley Seakor, Publisher of The Analyst Newspaper
Stephanie C. Horton (Vol 1, Issue 2, Nov. 2004)

Soprano Dawn Padmore in Word & Song
Stephanie C. Horton (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

Vamba Sherif: The Possibility of Words Leave Me Enthralled
Nvasekie N. Konneh (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

Against Annihilation: A Conversation on Liberian Literature with Wilton Gbakolo Sengbe Sankawulo, Sr.
Annaird Naxela (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

Interwoven Histories: Dr. Emmanuel Mark from Grenada to Liberia
Althea Romeo-Mark (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

PJW LECTURES

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley Lecture Series
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

Introduction to Creative Writing: The Three Genres of Literature
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

Writing Poetry: What Makes a Poem a Poem?
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

POETRY

A Celebration of Student Poetry with An Introduction By Eva Acqui
Monrovia Consolidated School System Student Poetry (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

‘Back in Sinkor’, ‘Love of Liberty’, ‘Rebel Woman’
Eva Acqui (Vol 2, Issue 1, Feb. 2004)

‘Lost Teachings’, ‘Remains’, ‘What I Actually Do’, ‘Party on Quicksand’
Eva Acqui (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

‘Loss’, ‘Words Can’t Tell’, ‘Silence of Pines’
Eva Acqui (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

‘River Goddess’, ‘When I Hear Drums’
Shariff Ashanti (Vol 1, Issue 2, Nov. 2004)

‘Monrovia’, ‘Education for the Masses’, ‘Yuh Kom’-fuh Meehn’, ‘Just A Little Bit More’, ‘Of Sycophants and PRCophants’
Keith Neville Asumuyaya Best (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

‘Color Difference’, ‘You Talk’, ‘What Does Your Eye See’, ‘The Hustle’, ‘The Search’, ‘Birth Place’, ‘All Hail’, ‘A Toast to Liberation’
Aaron Fallah Brown (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)

‘Color Difference’, ‘You Talk’, ‘What Does Your Eye See’, ‘The Hustle’, ‘The Search’, ‘Birth Place’, ‘All Hail’, ‘A Toast to Liberation’
Cameron Browne (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

‘The Congo Greets the Mesurado’, ‘Cacophony’, ‘Hymn for the Spring Equinox’, ‘Guardian of the Hearth’
Carl Patrick Burrowes (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006)

‘. . . I Should’
Earl D. Burrowes, Sr. (Vol 1, Issue 1, Aug. 2004)

‘My White Lace Tablecloth’, ‘Disillusioned’, ‘Truth and Light’, ‘To The Most High God’, ‘Solitude’
Audrey Carey-Haick (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

‘Firstborn’, ‘All She Will Be Needing’, ‘New Beginnings’, ‘Blinded’, ‘Child Unborn’
Audrey Carey-Haick (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

‘War Vibrations: Sketches of the War (1990)’, ‘The Gift’, ‘What A Life’, ‘The First Time’
Sarah A. Hayes Cooper (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

‘Mahogany: A Return to Writing the Belizean Poem (1987-2007)’, ‘Hurricane Hugo’,
‘Mafolie Hill Jumbie’, ‘Talking Drums’
Vincent O. Cooper (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

‘Broke Again??’, ‘The River Parts’, ‘While Time Lasts!’
Charlina Saryabieh B. Daitouah (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005)

‘Gaining Independence’, ‘The Last Day of Class’, ‘The Coup’, ‘Don’t Cry My African Child’
Wade’ Dennis (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006)

‘Memories of Mama by the Riverside’, ‘Cursor On My Life’, & ‘The White Coffin at Hope Furniture’
Obed W. Dolo (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

‘Love Betrayed: Lamentations of a Palm-wine Tree’, ‘Sweet Land of Liberty: What Brand of Liberty?’, ‘Stillborn’, ‘What Happened to the Pepperbird’s Song?’
Obed W. Dolo (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

‘Revolution Rain’, ‘Harmattan’, ‘Love Delirium’, & ‘Mister Vote-Buying Politician’
Obed W. Dolo (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

‘Equal Victims in War Game’, ‘Hail You, My Liberators’, ‘Child of the Nineties’, ‘ War’, ‘I Step in Darkness Again’
Worlea Saywah Dunah (Vol 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006)

‘the politics of war’, ‘my own’, ‘push further’, ‘the new civilization’
S. Kpanbayeazee Duworko, II (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

‘Our Heroes and Heroines’, ‘Deceitful’, ‘A Diary for Michael’
Musue N. Haddad (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

‘Brother’, ‘Dearest Mama’, ‘A Post Card for Michael’, ‘I am free, truly free!’
Musue N. Haddad (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

‘I Love the Breasts of Wangari Maathai’, ‘Along this Avenue Where I Live’, ‘Natural Selection’, ‘Legacy of the Damned’, ‘I Dream of Africa’
Gbanabom Hallowell, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

‘Sparse’, ‘Rhetoric’, ‘He and She (II)’, & ‘Eggplant to Sugarcane’
Ruby M. Harmon (Vol 2, Issue 2, May 2005)

‘Liberia’s Cry’, ‘Refugee Camp’, ‘Frustration’, ‘Ancestral Chant’
Ruby M. Harmon (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005)

‘For Liberia’, ‘Nah Foh, Nah Foh’, ‘Water Piece’
Ruby M. Harmon (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

‘My Heart Hears Your Song’, ‘Your Eyes’, ‘Your Song’, & ‘An African Mother’
Mohamedu F. Jones (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

‘The Pencil vs The Pen’, ‘Honey on a Gold Shield’, ‘The God before Yassa Knew About Man’
Laura Wede Kai (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

‘In Your Eyes’, ‘Maybe’, ‘Hush My Love’, ‘I Wish,’
Cecilia Armena King (Vol 3, Issue 4, Nov. 2006)

‘In the Beginning’, ‘The Crying Old Man’, ‘In the Land of My Father’s Birth’, ‘Political Party Line’, ‘My Father’s Last Prayer’
Nvasekie N. Konneh (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

‘A Glimpse Of Love’, ‘The Eyes Of My Traitor’, ‘Now’
Ophelia S. Lewis (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005)

‘Cocorioko’, ‘Silver Rain’, ‘Rest in Peace’, ‘Enough is Enough’
Roland Bankole Marke, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

‘Deliver Me From The Hands of Strange Children’, ‘Today’, ‘Victory Threads’, ‘The Hymn of the Bow’
Octavia McBride-Ahébée, Guest Writer (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

‘Somebody’, ‘The Difference’, ‘Sheep and Shepards’, ‘Troy’, ‘MILK for All God’s Children’
K-Moses Nagbe (Vol 2, Issue 1, Feb. 2004)

A Page from Jlàô Lore: ‘The Day Our Captain Died’
An Epic Story-Poem
K-Moses Nagbe (Vol 2, Issue 3, Aug. 2005)

‘Parent-Teacher Association, Unification Town’, ‘Sin’, ‘Raindance’, ‘Wheelbarrow in the Embassy’, ‘is’
Annaird Naxela (Vol 3, Issue 1, Feb. 2006)

‘For Our Old-Future (or New?) Poets’, ‘Untitled’ (4 of 15)
Annaird Naxela (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

‘Like the Dove of Peace’, ‘In the heat of the moment’, ‘Dishonesty: The private roots of our public woes’, ‘Freeing our minds’, ‘Freeing our minds II’
Saah Charles N’Tow (Vol 3, Issue 2, May 2006)

‘Dragon Lady’, ‘Undone’, ‘Becoming Gilberto’
Althea Romeo-Mark (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

‘Flood Waters’
Omanza Eugene Shaw (Vol 1, Issue 1, Aug. 2004)

‘football’, ‘We Divine Embryos’, ‘Weep Not For Dead Leaves’
Omanza Eugene Shaw (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

‘Smoke Rings’, ‘Black Hair, My Hair’, ‘She Who Made Paper Flowers’, ‘Mother’s Care’
Elaine Warren-Jacobs (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

‘What Happened to Hope?’, ‘Like A Dream’, ‘The Children’
Teri Weefur (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

‘Monrovia, Revisited’, ‘All Dirges Have Ceased’, ‘The Women in My Family’, ‘In the Beginning’, ‘Surrender’
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 2, Issue 4, Nov. 2005)

‘The River Is Rising’, ‘Our Heroes’, ‘In The Ruined City: A Poem for Monrovia’, ‘I Now Wander’
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Volume 3, Issue 3, Aug. 2006)

‘For Kwame Nkrumah’, ‘In the Making of a Woman’, ‘At Point Loma’, ‘This Is What I Tell My Daughter’ Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

‘Vagina Dialogue: A Date with Eve Ensler’, ‘mind and body’, ‘luxury’
Korto Williams (Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2007)

‘I Going To Work’, ‘The Stone Wall’, ‘Darkness Has Its Blanket Put’, ‘Who Am I?’
Yei Gausi Wuor (Vol 5, Issue 1, May 2008)

SCRIPTS

Liberia: The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here!!!!
A Documentary
Gerald K. Barclay (Vol 4, Issue 2, Nov. 2007)