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The Narrative Was Never Ours. Until Now.

Postcolonial Writers Series is a moderated intellectual platform where African academics, writers, and thinkers reclaim the story of Africa — on African terms.

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Why This Platform Exists

Critical Essays

Rigorous academic and analytical writing examining structural, historical, and contemporary power dynamics.

Curated Literature

Thought-provoking prose, poetry, and creative works that center authentic African experiences.

Intellectual Dialogue

A moderated environment for serious exchange, debate, and reimagining postcolonial futures.

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Expanding the conversation beyond the written word through audio, video, and visual storytelling.

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Author readings, interviews, and long-form conversations that deepen engagement with postcolonial thought.

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Visual arguments and filmed reflections that bring critical ideas to life through moving image.

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Photo essays, illustrated arguments, and image-driven narratives that expand how we see postcolonial experience.

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Latest Discourse

Essays, Conversations & Reflections

Ghanaian Discourse November 10, 2026

Whiners and the Witless: How Accra’s Market Women and Municipal Authority Fuel a Culture of Entitlement and Incompetence

Policies are not mere collections of casual suggestions to be cherry-picked or distorted at whim—they are, in fact, binding legal instruments, the backbone of the social contract designed to safeguard the collective good. To circumvent policies or city bylaws is not just a minor infraction; it is a flagrant endorsement of lawlessness. Nowhere is this […]

Ghanaian Discourse November 5, 2026

Unfulfilled Promises: How Ghana’s Governments Mistake Slogans for Real National Progress

Recent calls by Black South Africans for undocumented African immigrants to leave their country, though painful, are not without justification. The xenophobic rhetoric—“kwerekwere, go back and fix your country”—emerges from frustration with government inaction on unemployment and the visible, sometimes illicit, success of some migrants (Crush & Ramachandran, 2014). While the violence and deaths inflicted […]

Writers November 5, 2026

Saint or Salesman? Unmasking the True Servant of God: Archbishop Desmond Tutu vs. Pastor Mensah Otabil

This paper issues a ruthless censure of the hollow, self-serving grandstanding of Ghana’s clergy, with Mensah Otabil as its most egregious representative. Otabil’s November 2026 attack on the so-called “conmen” and “fake prophets” in Ghana’s Prophetic Ministry is not only hypocritical—it is farcical. Otabil, a motivational speaker wrapped in clerical garb, is just another salesman […]