Two of my father’s favorite sayings crossed my mind as the plane touched down in Bulawayo: Almost doesn’t fill a bowl and second place is the first loser. I expected him to say one or the other once he found out the truth.
Kweli is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization supported by readers like you and by grants from organizations including the New York State Council on the Arts, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, Amazon Literary Partnership and the Whiting Foundation.
Kweli Journal is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.