by THE EDITORS An oblation is a ritual offering to God. Words are our offerings. A Gathering Together is an offering. To participate in this journal—where writing reanimates our lives, touches our ancestors—is to participate in such a ritual. Literate and literary traditions made rituals out of words because they connected their power to the godly act of creation. We can create our reality with new words, or as Ayi Kwei Armah once stated, with “the best of words.” He[Read more]

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