An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

Sarpong-Osei Asamoah is a Ghanaian writer and postcolonial pundit. His work is forthcoming in and has appeared in Lolwe Magazine, Tampered Press Magazine, The Hellebore, IceFloe Press Magazine, at WriteGhana.com, Gumbo Press Magazine, Lunaris Review, Contemporary Ghanaian Writers Series Anthologies and elsewhere.
  • Ballad of saltwater children

    Ballad of saltwater children

    In “Ballad of saltwater children,” poet Sarpong Osei Asamoah illuminates the histories of the Akan people and their long struggle against the “borderless noose” of racial capitalism and ecological violence.

  • Lost Dogs

    Lost Dogs

    Poet Sarpong-Osei Asamoah’s “Lost Dogs” is a prayer of revulsion, oscillating between the heavens and the sewers.