Chimamanda Adichie Meets Her Lagos Readers at a Sold-Out Event with 600...
On Friday, April 25th, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie held a book signing in Lagos for the Nigerian release of Dream Count. The event was hosted by the Nigerian bookstore chain Roving Heights at their...
View ArticleTina Knowles’s Book Cover Art Was Painted by A Nigerian Artist
At Brittle Paper, we love covers and believe it is a unique aspect of a book’s story, so when Tina Knowles’s memoir Matriarch was published in April, the cover caught our attention. The cover art...
View ArticleXan van Rooyen Wins 2024 South African Horrorfest Bloody Parchment Competition
The results are in for the 2024 South African Horrorfest Bloody Parchment Short Story Competition, a cornerstone of the country’s premier horror and speculative fiction event. This year’s winner is Xan...
View ArticleAbi Daré Wins £10,000 Inaugural Climate Fiction Prize for Novel Set in Rural...
Nigerian author Abi Daré has been awarded the first-ever Climate Fiction Prize for her second novel, And So I Roar. The £10,000 prize, which recognizes fiction that addresses the climate crisis in...
View ArticleSaara El-Arifi on Romantasy and the Politics of Genre Labeling
British-Sudanese-Ghanaian fantasy author Saara El-Arifi is a major voice in the speculative fiction space. Her debut novel, The Final Strife (2022) is an epic fantasy, drawing inspiration from African...
View ArticleChimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the Met Gala: A New Kind of Literary Influence
“Writing my latest book, Dream Count, made me think about clothes again,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote recently in an Elle.com feature. The sentence is quiet and personal, but it offers a useful lens...
View ArticleSierra Leonean’s Yalie Saweda Kamara and Zambia’s Mubanga Kalimamukwento Are...
Two African writers, Mubanga Kalimamukwento and Yalie Saweda Kamara, have been named finalists for the 2025 Firecracker Awards, which honor the best independently published books and literary magazines...
View ArticleThe Sheer Fortune of Knowing Ngugi wa Thiong’o By Okey Ndibe
There’s a charmed, even fated, quality to my relationship with Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the extraordinarily gifted novelist, cerebral intellectual, and intrepid human rights champion who died on May 28,...
View ArticleBrittle Paper Curates Three Panels for the Schomburg Centennial Festival in...
We’re thrilled to share that Brittle Paper has curated a series of literary panels for this year’s Schomburg Center Literary Festival, taking place on Saturday, June 14 in Harlem. This is one of the...
View ArticleA Tribute to Ngugi wa Thiong’o by James Ogude
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the Kenyan playwright, novelist and thinker, who passed on 28 May 2025, has left a huge intellectual gap in Africa’s cultural and political landscape. Instead of mourning him, I have...
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