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The Quirky African Poem We Can’t Stop Reading | Quarantine With Abdelhalim...
Safia Elhillo is a Sudanese poet based in Washington, DC. She is one of the two winners of the 2015 Brunel University African Poetry Prize. In just three years of being in existence, the £3000 prize...
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Holy Sex! | by Obinna Udenwe | Episode 2 | A Nigerian Church Erotica
Your friend, Blessing, is nowhere to be found. She has left Lagos for over a month now. Where she has gone to, no one knows. Before Blessing disappeared, she was behaving strangely. She used to be a...
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Chimamanda Adichie Reminisces About Her Phone Call with Will Smith | We Had a...
Chimamanda Adichie has been featured on Beyonce’s track. She’s headlined a British Vogue fashion project. She’s had two of her novels optioned for the big screen. This weekend, she will deliver the...
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African Writers on Writing | Laila Lalami on How Not To Write A Novel
Wait for the right time. Wait for the right place. Be in awe of your novel’s premise. The best premises in the world still don’t add up to a completed book. Get up from the chair. Tell yourself you’re...
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Sunshine | by Geosi Gyasi | An African Poem
Her smile was all sunshine. Meeting her under the shade(less) sunny sun, the day opened out to us, we were barefooted in the sandy sunny desert. A walk along the desert, flies of sand fly into the...
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Holy Sex! | by Obinna Udenwe | Episode 3 | A Nigerian Church Erotica
You are 37 years old. No man is discussing anything serious with you. No man is asking you whether you’re buying or selling. No man has ever asked your hand in marriage. But there is a rumour in town....
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Happy Birthday, Dambudzo Marechera!
If Dambudzo Marechera were still alive, he’d have been celebrating his 63rd birthday today. The Zimbabwean author, best known for the experimental fiction titled The House of Hunger, is to African...
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We are Rooting for Wole Soyinka as He Seeks Prestigious Oxford Professorship
Wole Soyinka is a Nobel laureate, but becoming the Professor of Poetry at Oxford University comes with a whole new kind of prestige. For 300 years, poets of great renown have vied to hold what many...
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My African Book Diary | The Unlovable Serial Killer
I made the mistake of reading Broken Monsters while my husband was away for a few days playing out-of-town shows. Bad idea. Broken Monsters is a disturbing and scary piece of work. I couldn’t go back...
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#HotDudesReading | Gorgeous Men Caught on Camera While Reading in NYC Metro
If you love your men handsome and literary-minded, come right in here. I’ve got something for you. The Instagram account @hotdudesreading is something I found during one of my frequent visits to...
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African Witchdoctor Novels
In celebration of the mysterious and magical, we are calling on fans of African literature to explore the dark and enigmatic world of the African witchdoctor. Perhaps we should state that the term...
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Photo of the Week | #AfricanLiterature
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart. — Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go Taiye Selais shared this photo on Instagram a few days ago with the caption “Life On the...
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Holy Sex! | by Obinna Udenwe | Episode 4 | A Nigerian Church Erotica
Do they know what it means to be fruitless? Do they know what it means to be referred to by your husband’s people as fruitless, as a pumpkin with no seeds inside, as a wombless woman? Do they? If they...
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sHE-Motions | By Udochukwu Ikwuagwu | African Poetry
Cold nights, dark as the flower over your soul. You call it a body; I find a warm shelter against life adversities. Wrap your arms around my frailty while my head rests on your temple— The worship is...
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Making African Literature Look and Feel Cool One Blogpost at a Time
For almost 5 years, we’ve used Brittle Paper to share our love and passion for African fiction and literary culture. Our reward? Keeping you enthusiastic about African literature. That’s why it warmed...
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Wondering What Binyavanga and Janelle Monae are Doing in the Same Photograph?
If you’re wondering what Binyavanga Wainaina and Janelle Monae are doing in the same photograph, you clearly know nothing about the hottest African party that took place in New York City last weekend....
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Why the Nigerian President Quoted Shakespeare
I remember where I was when I heard President Buhari quote Shakespeare. I was sitting on the couch in my Chicago apartment listening to the inaugural speech via Channels TV’s live feed. His accent is...
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Photo of the Week | Achebe the Musician | #AfricanLiterature
Chris Abani posted this photograph three days ago on his Instagram page with the caption: “Me and the Chief are gonna blow. Old photo. Achebe and Abani puppets.” Imagine Achebe and Abani rocking it...
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Confirmed! | Teju Cole’s New Book Set for 2016 Release
According to Entertainment Weekly, the wait for Teju Cole’s new book is almost over. A collection of essays titled Known and Strange Things hits the stands in 2016. If you were wondering, Cole is...
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Constable Semenya and the Pageant | by Judith Joubert | An African Story
“This is your chance to prove yourselves, trolls,” Lieutenant Colonel Coetzee shouted at the six rookies before him. They are fresh-faced and eager now, he thought, I hope they won’t become jaded too...
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