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African Writers on Writing | Yvonne Owuor on Entering the Zone
Yvonne Owuor is the author of Dust, a lyrical novel about loss and mourning. She was born in Kenya and won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2003. With stern discipline, I rise with the first...
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Photos from the Africa39 Literary Event in NYC City
If you’ve not heard about Africa39, you’re clearly not on top of your African literary news. So let me help you out. Africa39 is a book project sponsored by the Hay Festival and the Rainbow Book...
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Adichie Scores Big Again! | She is Wellesley College’s 2015 Commencement Speaker
In a few weeks, Chimamanda Adichie will officially add “commencement speaker at a top US university” to her resume. Days after rounding up her month-long feature in British Vogue, [click here if you...
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Writes of a Bastard | by Amatesiro Dore | African Flash Fiction
If family meetings were assembled to discuss your arrival, under sombre atmospheres, and the parents were ashamed of their naked dance, and the father wasn’t sure of his fatherhood, and the mother was...
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This African Novelist Has Sold Over 120 Million Copies
The word on the street is “never talk about money and book sales in African literary circles.” African novelists are too cool and too intellectual to be bothered by how well or badly their novels do...
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Embracing the Weird and the Mysterious in African Fiction | SSDA’s...
The African literary scene is on fire! Just last week, we announced Lauren Beukes’ collaboration with DC Comics—involving an African spin on the Wonder Woman super hero franchise. [click here if you...
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A Rush of Blood to the Brain | By Obinna Udenwe | An African Story
You are an assassin. Some of your patrons call you a killer. Others call you a murderer, hit man, thug, slayer, and all what-nots. They are free to come up with as many names as they like to define...
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Even | By Kayode Olla & Carolyn Banks | A Collaborative Poem
I wish we could go to the beach and watch the sun turn bleach orange, but I hear you hate orange. If you hate orange, would you also hate my ranch? I wish we’d love the hum’n color of dark or yellow —...
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We Gave You Refuge, You Give Us Death | Mozambican Novelist Mia Couto Speaks...
The ongoing xenophobic killing in South Africa is sad and shocking. Spine-chilling moments of these killings captured on videos and photographs have been making their rounds on social media, causing a...
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Event | Treat Yourself to a Night of African Stories | Jude Idada’s Toronto...
For those living in Toronto, here’s is a chance to treat yourself to a special literary night-out. Jude Idada is launching two of his literary works—By My Own Hands + Didi Kanu and the Singing Dwarfs...
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The Soundtrack of a Memory | by Nnamdi Ibeanusi
The old man sits in the bathtub and hums a calming tune, his thoughts lost among the white foams. The heady scent of lavender shampoo is suspended in the air, but it’s been tempered by the severe...
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Wole Soyinka: I Fantasize About Meeting JK Rowling in a Dark Alley
Who knew that our beloved Soyinka had a literary obsession? In a talk presented during a FESPACO 2013 event, titled “A Name is More Than The Tyranny Of Taste,” he goes on and on about his admiration...
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African Pop Fiction | Brittle Paper Launches HOLY SEX! | A Nigerian...
Sex sells. But in Africa, religion sells nearly as much. In a new story series titled Holy Sex, Nigerian novelist Obinna Udenwe unites church and sex to create a new kind of African pop...
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#OurList: 6 African Travel Novels to Fuel Your Wanderlust
Good grief! The summer is here already. As you all know, it’s the season of travel. Are you zapping off to a different country? Popping by a nearby city? Headed out to a professional engagement? Or...
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I Read to be Consoled | 13 Best Quotes from Adichie’s Pen Festival Lecture +...
Chimamanda Adichie’s lecture at the Pen World Voices Festival came and went, leaving a trail of thoughtful quotes and lovely photos. I hope you find inspiration in these quotes and enjoy all the fun...
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Holy Sex by Obinna Udenwe | Episode 1 | Nigerian Church Erotica
Your pastor secretes holy milk. That is the story being whispered by everyone in the church—choristers, ushers, and the women. They say he is God’s anointed. A man anointed by God must have all his...
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How to Cook African Literary Food | Ben Okri and The Magic of Pepper Soup
So much of the magic in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road revolves around pepper soup—a dish universally loved by everyone in the novel, whether man or woman, ghost or prehistoric creature. Some of the...
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The Abyssinian God | by Yiro Abari High | An African Poem
Across the Atlantic They are not agnostic With three hundred and sixty five stones They watch the cycle. With the last pebble gone They blow their horn. They look into the sky For a God who’s most...
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INTERVIEW | Nikitia Yona on Braving Divorce and Writing A Tell-All Memoir
A memoir is often an author’s attempt to use the storytelling tools of fiction to convey a true life experience. Surviving Divorce in Hidalgo County is written by Tanzanian-American writer, Nikitia...
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The Poetry of Hair! | Taiye Selasi Partners with Dove Hair in #LoveYourCurls...
Taiye Selasi is known for her cascading shock of black, kinky curls. But being on #teamnatural is not just a styling choice for Ghana’s best selling novelist. It is a message worth spreading. Selasi...
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