The Puritan Launches 2020 Special Issue

October 28, 2020

Dear Readers,

We are pleased to announce the launch of our 2020 special issue, The Alkebulan Mixtape, guest edited by Ian Keteku!

This special issue’s features the short story “A History of A Noise” by Canisia Lubrin as well as the photo essay “The Heirs of the Eyesome Winds of Change” by Kwame Aiddo.

In poetry, check out “mare&me” by Whitney French, “Love Letter from a Third Culture Kid” and “Sitting at the foot of the heavens, unaware” by Timaj Garad, “Precipitous Birth” by Amoya Reé, “The Darkest Pity Party” by Eddie Lartey, “MASTER: After visual artist Kerry James Marshal” by Chukky Ibe, “Girl of The Month” and “Melting Plastic” by Jennifer Kasiama, and “Synonym” and “Appetite” by Brandon Wint.

Finally, Chukky Ibe discusses Achebe, Adichie, Adeyemi, Coates, James, Jemisin, Okoraforin, Black Is King, and Blank Panther in his review “Memory and Magic: A year of reading Black books.”

We hope you enjoy this special issue.

Kind regards,

The Editors