Editorial: Tuck Magazine 2016

January 3, 2017 Editorial

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Tuck Magazine had a record breaking 2016, publishing an increased number of articles as each month progressed, easily surpassing the achievements of the year before.

 

1569 articles were published in 2016, from 440 different writers around the world, originating from a total of 65 countries.

 

We are indebted to our contributors, readers and friends for ensuring that Tuck Magazine, an independent and free press, continued to be an inspiring read, reporting on important issues, making each think and reflect on the world around them.

 

In addition to the magazine’s Twitter feed, updates and stories were also posted on Linkedin and Facebook, via ‘Val Michael Tuck‘ and ‘Tuck Magazine‘.

 

Our contributors for the year came from the following countries:

 

South Sudan

Nigeria

Uganda

Bangladesh

United States

Sri Lanka

Sudan

DRC

Pakistan

Ghana

India

Egypt

Zimbabwe

Australia

Malawi

Iran

Switzerland

Nepal

Bosnia

China

Turkey

Senegal

South Africa

Ecuador

Canada

England

France

Italy

Brazil

Scotland

Venezuela

Wales

Algeria

Bahrain

Russia

Israel

Tanzania

Philippines

Romania

Holland

Albania

Iraq

Kenya

Ethiopia

Hong Kong

Mexico

Oman

Lithuania

Denmark

Yemen

Ireland

Somalia

Taiwan

Jamaica

Jordan

New Zealand

Argentina

Germany

Colombia

Austria

Palestine

Cameroon

Papua New Guinea

Mauritius

South Korea

 

 

 

2017 will continue in a similar vein, highlighting important stories from around the world with plans for Tuck to expand further as the year progresses, as well as publishing more articles on human rights, news, current affairs, music, politics, film, poetry, fiction, art, interviews, photography and reviews, so if you are interested in contributing, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

 

For now however we thank 2016’s talented contributors:

 

Peter Louis

Okeke Okechi 

Gloria Nakiyimba 

Benjamin Okochi

Wale Ayinla

Ikirigo Sokari Jeremiah

Sheuli Akter

Scott Thomas Outlar 

Indunil Madhusankha 

Darell Maurice 

Alagbe Omotayo

Damilola Jonathan Oladeji

(The late) Sattar Rind 

Celestine Chimummunefenwuanya

Ken Allan Dronsfield

Nana Arhin Tsiwah 

Guy Farmer

Byobe Malenga

Gopal Lahiri

Abdul Abubakar

John Grey

Ahmed Tharwat 

Lindri Riveras

Samuel Ayoade

Mathew Masinge 

Atanda Faruq Obatolu

James Diaz

Rob Harle 

Sunil Sharma

Sanjeev Sethi

Nixon Mateulah 

Muhammad Waqas Awan

Sarah Pedramnia 

Philipp Müller 

Adisa Amanor Wilks

Mercy UdoAkang

Onawale Femi Simeon

Catherine James

Sheena Pillai Singh

Goodnews Eruemuare

Pijush Kanti Deb

Robert Ssewankambo

Abdulkareem Awwal Opeyemi

Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

Ogunniyi Abayomi

Akinpelu Yusuf

Vishal Ajmera

Ogunsanya Enitan Olalekan

Rahul Mall 

Alagbe Omotayo

Suvojit Banerjee

Ananya S Guha

Michael Lee Johnson

Ovuoba David

Sheikha A.

Sara Lerota 

Onyeka Obi

Ogana D. Okpah

Dan Marshall-Singh 

Akor Emmanuel

Fawole Immanuel Taiwo

Ayoola Goodness Olanrewaju

Fadi Elhusseini 

Anwar Hasan

Alpha Jallow 

Oki Kehinde Julius

Constance van Niekerk 

Shakeel Haider

Russell W. Dickson

Soodabeh Saeidnia

Abienekpen Osaletin Augustine

Grégory Wilson 

Tom Arms 

Durodola Tosin

Nnaemeka Nwangene

Satyabrata Pal

Ngozi Olivia Osuoha

Jose Kalathil

Christine McNeill-Matteson

Adoboe Selorm

Gulcin Newby Kennett

Florence Vitel 

Ratnesh Dwivedi

Catherine Magodo-Mutukwa

Cecilia Sandroni 

Reena Prasad

Olena Kagui

Brian Horner

Kareem Awwal

Michael Inioluwa Oladele

Daisy Hasan

Hussain Ahmed

Rod Roldan-Roldan 

K.S. Subramanian

Musa Gift Masombuka

Paul Tristram

Geosi Gyasi

Justice Gift Ogochukwu

John Mingay 

Chukwu John David

Learnmore Edwin Zvada

Sami Jamil Jadallah

John Swain

Joe Milford

Ojo Blessing

Waqar Haider

Marcus Agar

Muhammad Aladdin

Alberto Quero 

Corinne Wainer

Michael Kwaku Kesse Somuah

Rajesh Nair

Sean Runyon

David Subacchi 

Matthew Laverty

Wally Swist

Prince Charles Dickson

Rashida Murphy

Anthony Jenkins

Kofi Acquah

Elwood Billshot

Semra Dehamna 

Onis Sampson

Alexander Limarev 

Cynthia Meru

David Bankson

Kitaka Alex

Mirissa D. Price

Keletso Mopai

Joan McNerney

Valda Organ

Ed Bremson

Peter Heerings

Adam Levon Brown

Maitreyee B Chowdhury

Adel Soualah

Johnson Grace Maganja

Purabi Bhattacharya

Gary Beck

Ayushi Singha

Paul Sezzie

Holly Day

Sudeep Mukhia

Amarjyoti Borah

Richard Donnelly

Rupen Savoulian

Dukhan Jundit

Anindita Bose

Beate Sigriddaughter

Rick Davis

Aurora M. Granata

Wayne F Burke

JD DeHart

Feroz Khan Jamali

Kolawole Oluwanifemi

Sona Maniar

Vickie Zisman 

Augustine Malizu

Michael Organ

Susan Price

Julia Symmes Cobb 

Ana Isabel Martinez 

Ricky Garni

Santosh Kumar Pokhrel

Gonsalves Mpili 

Anthony Boadle 

Alonso Soto 

Sudeep Adhikari

Joseph Taylor

Lou Charbonneau 

William Maclean 

Lydie Denier

Mohammed Ghobari  

Sylvia Westall 

Ellen Wulfhorst

Julie Petersen

Nivedita Dey

Muhammad Nasrullah Khan

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani 

Otatade Okojie

Renee Drummond-Brown

Ennin Kwaku Godfred

John Thieme

Narges Kharghani

Abu Thahir

Nasurullah Brohi

Belinda Goldsmith 

Astrid Zweynert 

Alex Whiting 

Sukrita Paul Kumar

Amore David Olamide

Alexander Balcoba

Anca Mihaela Bruma 

Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

Kieran Guilbert 

U Atreya Sarma

Nicole Long

Seun Ajijala

Blanca Alicia Garza

Thambu Kanagasabai

Coby Daniels

Semon Swaraj

Tanvi Bijawat

Cynthia M. Lardner 

Anne Babson

Marites Gueta

Ojo Taiye

Dime Maziba

Irsa Ruci 

Prerna Singla

Tanushree Ghosh

Valentina Viskovic

Ayushi Gupta

Robert Kilborn

Bismark Amoah

Len Kuntz

Brianna Ricotta

Myra King

Kay Johnson 

Kaushik Chakraborty

Sandy Rochelle

Peter Magliocco

Umberto Bacchi 

Manuel Mogato

John Chalmers 

Lianne Kamp

Kylie MacLellan 

Anirban Nag

Micheal Ace

Monoranjan Thakur

Estelle Shirbon

Ben Blanchard

Saira Viola

Sarah Ito

Guy Faulconbridge 

Kate Holton

Don Krieger

Ahmad Al-khatat 

Joe Khamisi 

Warren Strobel

Yara Bayoumy 

Moses Chukwuemeka Daniel

Rina Chandran 

Malkeet Kaur

Hakeem Enesi Momoh

Ijalusi Samuel

Dhiraj Kumar Beniwal

Subashish Bhattacharjee

Lucy M. Logsdon

Nita Bhalla 

Stephanie Nebehay

Iwu Jeff

Nicole Surginer

Brian Minga Amza

Priyadarshini Kiran

Wesley D. Gray

Sabena Siddiqi

Somsukla Roy

Bolaji Akinwande Akintola

Zeravan Barwary

Ugwu Leonard Elvis

Hira Azhar

Mark Cleeford L Quitoras

Shola Balogun

Fanuel Lakew 

Abigail Rathbone

Zeeshan A. Shah

Debbie Hall

Joe Bavier 

Paul Summers

Joey Ho

Nurul Hoque

Hazel Speed

Marieta Maglas 

Sophie Sassard 

Michel Bernouin 

Rinita Banerjee

J.K. Durick

Kumbirai Kupfavira

Nikki Anne Schmutz

Abu Sufian

I.B. Rad

Ebi Robert

Dustin Pickering

Changming Yuan

Magdalena Mis 

Nii Armah Tagoe

Odinga Adiwu

Krista Clark

Fatimah Bakare-Dickson

Penn Kemp

Brian Frydenborg

Matt Alexander

Ifeoluseyi Ifeoluwapo Ifeyemi

Rehan Qayoom

Nita Bhalla 

Tom Gumbert

Tikuli

Scott Wozniak

Javed Majeedano

Akinola Sesan

Mohammad Forouzani 

Saru Pokharel

Colin Packham 

Aprajita Gupta

Gul Yousafzai 

Jill Crainshaw

Prince A McNally

Stephen Mead

Jason Allen

Alève Mine

Jenny Santellano

Mica Rosenberg 

Ieva Rasmussen

Habib Akewusola

Tejasvi Saxena

Michael T. Bee

Debasish Parashar

Naa Dedei Botchwey

Oshogbemi A E Peter

Stephen Byrne 

Kenny Katombe

Benoit Nyemba 

Mousumi Ghose

David Adejumo

Lisa Morris

Mahmoud Sharif 

Chinwe O’Brien

Akeredolu Tope

Olta Totoni

Kay Roberts

Rebecca Cherrington

Angus McDowall 

Tom Perry 

Howard Debs

Ulf Laessing 

Christopher Hopkins

Chung Kwang Tien

David Paul White

Aina Oluwasegun Yakub

Abdulrahman M Abu-yaman

Venus Wu 

James Pomfret 

Aditya Singh

Ajay K Chaubey

Kim Bailey Deal

Natalie Crick

Shahper Hassan

Ricardo Swire 

Nehad Ismail 

Ifa Agnes

Bernard Ollo

Rafah Al Saad 

Opal Ingram

Sam Eastwood

P C K Prem

Prince Adetunji Fabode

Steve Holland 

Emily Stephenson 

Mohamed Elgadi 

Casey Dorman

Elizabeth Alford

Kaushik Acharya

Jake Aller

Paul Grams

Kanwal Abidi

Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi

Temesghen Debesai

Patrick Calinescu

Vincent Alexander

Elizabeth Johnston

Noah Barkin 

Alejandro Escudé 

Ingrid Melander 

Michel Rose 

Ed Cropley 

Aremu Adams Adebisi

Siddhartha Rastogi

Jo-Ella Sarich

Daginne Aignend

Manjinder Kaur Wratch

Curtis Skinner

Muhammad Shoaib Khan

Patricia Walsh

Richard Lough 

David R Mellor

Rich Soos

Lin Taylor

Bethamehi Joy Syiem

Rob Plath

Alan Share

Chestlyn Draghoender

Albrecht Behmel 

J.J.Campbell

Mansour Rad

Blank Verse

Ramona Thompson

Peter Lykke Lind 

Harry Ricciardi

Anastasia Moloney

Sourav Sarkar

Crispian Balmer

Jennifer N. Shannon

Madamidola Oladele

Anuradha Nagaraj 

Sylvia Petter 

Gavin Jones 

Ken W Simpson

Florence Logarta

Williams Oladimeji

Nwibo Chinecherem Precious

David Susswein

Maha Elbanna 

Joseph Besong 

Richard M. Longthorpe

Abigale Louise LeCavalier

Eaton Jackson

Jerry Vilhotti

Tad Gruchalla-Wesierski

Umit Bektas 

Orhan Coskun 

Tuvan Gumrukcu

Jordan Dean

Jennifer Criss

Wole Oguntola

Sandeep Sharma

Leslie Philibert 

Lesley Wroughton

Yeganeh Torbati 

M.K. Eelaventhan

Ògbeni Làgbàyí

Samrat Dey

Ezra Acayan

Vatsala Radhakeesoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

A happy, peaceful and prosperous 2017 to everyone.

 

 

Michael Organ

Managing Editor and Publisher

Tuck Magazine

2 Comments

  1. R.Roldan-Roldan January 03, at 19:47

    Congratulations. And thank you for publishing my poems. Best regards

    Reply
  2. P C K PREM January 03, at 08:34

    Congratulations. You richly deserved it. Wish you very happy and flourishing times ahead. Best.

    Reply

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