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Photographer Captures The Beauty of African Literature in Images of Hausa...
Littattafan Soyayya —roughly translated into “books of love”—is the pride and joy of contemporary Nigerian fiction. It refers to a large body of romance pulp-fiction produced and read in Northern...
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Alain Mabanckou Takes African Literature to 400 year Old French University
Congolese novelist Alain Mabanckou is the master humorist of contemporary African fiction. Within the English speaking parts of Africa and the world, Mabanckou is the most well-known African novelist...
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Under Pressure | by Peter Ngila | An African Story
Nairobi people are walking along Tom Mboya Street like they are scuffling to heaven. Jim, stop thinking I shagged your girlfriend. Stop calling me. I’m breathing too much to talk while going up the...
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Sudanese Poet Safia Elhillo Breaks Into the African Literary Scene on Her Own...
Everyone knows that the best part of participating in a literary prize is winning. So big congrats to Sudanese-American poet Safia Elhillo, who recently won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African...
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Opportunity for African Writers | 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize Kicks Off...
It’s almost time for the fourth edition of the Short Story Day Africa Prize (SSDA). SSDA is one of the leading platforms for new writers in Africa. They published Okwiri Oduor’s story, “My Father’s...
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Why We Stopped Talking | Kwame Dadson | An African Story
It was the littlest thing. We had been friends for forty years, through the most challenging times and the happiest. Best men at each other’s weddings, guarantors for each other’s mortgages. We had...
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The Respect of a First Wife | by Bunmi Anjorin-Kogbe | An African Story
The yam was cooked. Ore, refusing to use a dish cloth, removed the pot from the cooker and set it on the worktop next to the bowl of ground pepper, tomatoes and onions. On opening the pot the steam...
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Petina Gappah’s 2-Second Bob Marley Cover is Perfection
Gappah’s Bob Marley cover should go down in history as the most delightful few seconds in the history of African literature. Okay, maybe we are exaggerating, but still. Gappah whose new novel The Book...
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Interview | M. Lachi on Fantasy, Storytelling, and Empowerment | by Ainehi Edoro
M. Lachi is a fantasy writer. Her novel titled The Ivory Staff was published last year. The Ivory Staff is a dark fantasy story set in a north African island. It is a cinderella-like story, except...
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Dark, Twisted, Amusing | Review of Dami Ajayi’s Clinical Blues | by Socrates...
The recent shortlist of Clinical Blues in the ANA Poetry category confirms Dami Ajayi as a leading poet. The collection is divided into three parts around which is assembled images of the barroom, the...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Experimental Writing: Africa Vs. Latin...
The organizers of an Africa-Latin American collaborative project are looking for contributions. See below for more info. First rule is: there are no rules to creativity, writing, thinking, feeling,...
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Why Couldn’t It Be a Boy? | by Chichi Ayalogu | An African Story
You held your hands high above your head just as they all did, sang the hymn as loud as your voice could bellow, and clucked your tongue with everyone else in a language no one understood, not even...
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Bernard Dadié The Achebe of Ivory Coast Wins Literary Prize at 100
Bernard Dadié is 100! His birthday was on January 10, but last week the literary legend had the chance to celebrate the huge milestone in the best way possible. He joined friends and family in Abidjan...
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Encounters at the Embassy | by Norbert Odero | An African Story
At the United States’ Embassy in Gigiri, Nairobi, Amina became part of the long queue of people with anticipation hidden deep within the folds of skin on their faces. Some faces were long, others...
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From Fiction Writer to Nigeria’s Social Media Tzar | Congrats to Tolu Ogunlesi!
The Nigerian president recently appointed Tolu Ogunlesi as his special assistant on digital/new media. In the midst of the excitement around Ogunlesi’s appointment, everyone seems to have forgotten...
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Breaking | Chinwe Akobundu | An African Story
I wasn’t very familiar with this feeling. It was not the stirring of butterflies in my belly like many claimed, whatever that was. Instead, it was more of a nauseous feeling. Apprehension?...
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Are You Leaving Al-Kindi? | By Mohamed Yunus Rafiq | African Poetry
Are you leaving Al-Kindi tonight, The stars and the round moons wrapped in a celestial roof, Are you packing your kisses, your hugs and your secret glances with you? The fire will be extinguished...
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White Cotton | by Ayo Oyeku | African Poetry
white cotton, fluffy furs splashing across the greens – like a white button, on a finely made fabric. white cotton, spidery legs, swaying against the whispering wind, flushing back fine memories of a...
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Let’s Measure Love | by Redscar McOdindo K’Oyuga | African Poetry
bring the measuring tape, the pipette and the hourglass. let us measure love, grain by grain, mounds. let us measure along the solitary river, while white birds flap their wings, measure along the...
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Adichie’s Classics Get Makeover in Cover Design Series
True fans of Chimamanda Adichie would have noticed that Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, and We Should All Be Feminists have all been spotting new covers for a while now. It turns out the covers are...
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