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African Literature in Chains | Are Western Publishers Telling African...
Adaobi Nwaubani Adaobi Nwaubani, the Nigerian author of I Do Not Come To You By Chance, recently expressed strong misgivings about the place of African literature within the global literary market....
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Ben Okri’s Rocket-Sex Scene Wins Him Bad Sex Award!
I’m just so delighted that an African author has finally won the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award. It’s been a long time coming. After all, Africa is the continent of awful descriptions of sex...
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My Button | by Moiyattu Banya | A Feminist Poem
My button was brown but pink in the inside, I liked looking at it, The way it curled at the top, and tucked in at the bottom to protect itself. Blue buttons, small ones. Beauty my rabbit teddy had...
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Ikhide Ikheloa is Asking Readers to Boycott President Obasanjo’s Memoir
I don’t want to start any controversy except to draw your attention to Ikhide Ikheloa’s Facebook status regarding ex-President Obasanjo’s recently published memoir, titled My Watch. Word on the street...
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Ethiopian Novel Makes New York Times Best Covers Of 2014
Congrats to Dinaw Mengestu and the designer of the cover of his new book, All Our Names. The cover design made the New York Times Best Cover of 2014. This places Mengestu in fine company—with the...
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Chibok by Jen Thorpe
Six months Is almost enough time To create A new person. Over two hundred Should be enough To garner some Consistent, persistent, resistance. Those on the road To the nowhere Somewhere Elsewhere The...
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UK Website Reveals The Bestselling Books of All Time
Bestselling book of all time? How much do you think a book would have to sell to take such a spotlight? Well, after looking through considerable data, the folks at lovereading.co.uk claims to have...
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President Obasanjo Hangs Out with Writers at Ake Festival
Writers convened at Ake for the second edition of Ake Arts and Book Festival. It only made sense that President Olusegun Obasanjo who lives sort of close by and who is himself an author should be...
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Photos: UK-Based African Women Writers Meet To Talk Business of Writing
Nuzo Onoh, author of The Reluctant Dead UK-based African writers came together in a one-of-a-kind literary event to chat about that aspect of writing that no one wants to talk about—the business of...
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Your 7-Day African Literary Make-Over
Happy New Year Brittlers! What everyone needs at the start of the new year are tips on how to reinvent aspects of their lives. For people like us who love African writing—2014 may have left us a...
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A Body In Need of Mending | Review of Yejide Kilanko’s Daughters Who Walk...
Pub. Date (Nigerian Edition): October 2, 2013. Farafina. 264 pp. Buy Paper Back and Kindle The world abounds with novels about violence against women. So why should you read Daughters Who Walk This...
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Point of View | by Ayibu Makolo | An African Story
Onojo was born on a market day. It had rained cats and dogs for two straight days that there was no means of obtaining transport to the maternity centre in town. Noka’s neighbour, Alime, had no choice...
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This May Not Be News But…| African Literary Gossip Vol. 1 | Adichie, Selasi,...
#AFricanLiteraryGossip is a compilation of offbeat news and tidbits on African authors and their social media life. Enjoy! ************************* 1. Moroccan novelist, Laila Lalami (author of A...
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Brittle Paper Launches an African Fantasy Story Series
So much excitement here as we launch a new story series. One of the most talked-about projects we launched last year was Ayodele Olofintuade’s Adunni, an original Brittle Paper story series featuring...
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African Literary Event in NYC | Book Chat with Jonny Steinberg and Dinaw...
Here is a cool literary event to attend if you’re in the neighborhood. What: Jonny Steinberg presents his book, A Man of Good Hope, in conversation with Dinaw Mengestu Where: Greenlight Bookstore (686...
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In the Shadow of Iyanibi, Pt. 1 | by Eugene Odogwu | An African Fantasy Story...
Ahu clenched the itosi hanging from her neck, the bird feather charm her father had given them at birth. It was all she could do to contain the anger building up inside her. “Look at your sister,” the...
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African Novels are Not Anthropological Documents
We have to be careful how we position African novels, that we don’t make claims for the African novel that it does not make for itself. So when someone comes to you looking for a novel that...
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Teju Cole’s Must-Read Response to The Charlie Hebdo Killing
In the wake of the terror attack on a Paris magazine and the revolutionary euphoria that followed, Teju Cole tries to put the whole even in perspective. Scroll down to seek the few passages I...
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Ankara Press Debuts 6 African Romance Novels That are Better Than Mills & Boon
Step aside Mills and Boon. Ankara Press is here! The new and hip romance story imprint that’s had African literary Twitter buzzing for weeks is worth every beam of spotlight it’s enjoying at the...
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Notes from the Island | by Akumbu Uche | A Portrait of Lagos in Six Fragments
{Tolu Talabi, this one is for you.} 176 The number of wooden placards encircling Falomo Roundabout. Painted on them are black silhouettes and red question marks where faces should be. Tied to the...
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