Kola articles

Recent articles from Kola

At twenty: take two.(Kola's twentieth year of publication)(Editorial)
September 22, 2008... In my editorial introduction to Kola 20.1, 1 pointed out (or celebrated) several particularities pertinent to the literary journal's first decade: its pan-African and multicultural catholicity, its de facto near-colonization by African-American writers, its private funding, its gradual turn...

Editorial.(KOLA's tenth year of publication)(Editorial)
September 22, 2008... KOLA has just passed its tenth year of publication and the editors would like to see it become an institution. It is one of the few literary magazines that deals mainly with black subject matter and the only black literary magazine published in Canada. KOLA is a source of pride to those who...

The subway ride.(Short story)
September 22, 2008... As soon as the subway pulled out of the tunnel into the late afternoon light, Toya was sorry she consented to the interview. Even though there weren't any incidents in the Pelham Bay section of this white working class neighborhood, it was a well known fact that minorities weren't welcome....

Round-Table Talk.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Round-Table Talk Eurocentric discourse: Finances, Resources, and Power Afrocentric dialogue: Nutrition, Education, And Freedom. Unicentric exchange: Truth, Trust, and Destiny.

True Sensuality.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... True Sensuality (A Muslim Woman Speaks: Sister to Sister) Ya' all trip me out Why am I always left out Me? I doubt That with-out A man You can And will Just chill And still Be a beautiful fulfilled Black woman in this world ...