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Okorafor Restates (Yet Again): Imagining the Future is not Un-African!
Despite the growing popularity of science fiction among African writers and readers of African fiction, there are people who insist that science fiction is not a legitimate category of African...
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In a Pub in the Hearafter | By P Ochieng Ochieng | An African Story
Except at the end of the cycle, when the AFRO PRESIDENTS pub fills to capacity, Jomo always stops by for a drink. Today he occupies a spot close to the pub’s Eastern portal. His eyes are glued to a...
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Inongo-vi-Makomè’s Reinvents the African Immigrant Narrative
The buzz around Inongo-vi-Makomé’s Natives is gaining steam. The novel has appeared on a few high profile 2016 must-read lists [here]. Our prediction: if you haven’t read Natives by the year’s end,...
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We Are the Second Best Girls | by Zainab Omaki | An African Girl Manifesto
We are the second best girls. The close but no cigar girls. The good-friend girls in tom boy shorts and clunky glasses and a bumbling grace to us. We are wall flower girls who actually smell like...
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Pendulums and Puppets | by Mbe Mbhele | An African Story
I watched the cigarette smoke dance to the blue. I watched the smoke disappear into the sky and buoyant clouds. I saw evanescent birds screaming for help, but humans thought they were singing. I...
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Nigeria’s Conspiracy Crime Writer Obinna Udenwe Announces Dates for Online...
AMAB Author, Obinna Udenwe will commence a week online book tour of the conspiracy crime thriller, Satans & Shaitans on March 7, 2016. This online book tour, organized in collaboration with...
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Dark, Edgy, Slippery Stories | Lauren Beukes’ New Book Set for August Release
South Africa’s speculative fiction queen has been busy concocting a collection of stories. Ever since her blockbuster thriller Broken Monsters, fans have been wondering how much longer they’d have to...
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Fish | Ope Adedeji | An African Story
One kain thing happen when I wake up this morning. There was small-small purple and red and different color circle dancing in front my eyes. Like the one I see as small pikin when I look at the light...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Enter to Win the Nigerian Students Poetry...
Students in any tertiary institution in Nigeria are invited to participate in this poetry prize sponsored by the University of Ibadan—Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe’s alma mater. Here is how the...
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Out and About With Jumoke Verissimo | by Chris Ogunlowo
This happened during the holidays. We agreed to meet at Domino’s in GRA, Ikeja. But some random events changed our plan—the affliction called Lagos traffic held Jumoke up somewhere for over an hour....
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According to Prof. | by Hamza Moshood | An African Story
Stepping out of the main hall, you walk into the lobby of the conference centre. Here, you pause for a minute to reflect on all that was discussed at the conference. In truth, you did not fully grasp...
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Turtleneck | by Justin Irabor | African Crime Fiction
“Lekwa uzor,” The Man barked, and the driver mumbled something polite while continuing to drive with his usual recklessness. A nameless rapper was shrieking painfully on the radio, drowning the hum of...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Entries Open for Special Issue Edited by...
Kenyan novelist Mukoma wa Ngugi teams up with American literature professor Laura Murphy in a one of a kind literary project. They are co-editing a special issue of the New Orleans Review titled The...
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Join Us Today as We Host Nigeria’s Crime Thriller Author Obinna Udenwe |...
Today, Brittle Paper plays host to Nigerian author Obinna Udenwe. We are the third stop in his week-long blog tour publicizing the Nigerian edition of his conspiracy crime thriller titled Satans and...
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Watch Chimamanda Adichie Give Parisians 10 Lessons in Feminism
Feminism or the question of women empowerment and gender equality is a global issue. No one understands that better than Chimamanda Adichie who, in recent years, has taken on the role as feminist...
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Belonging | by J K Anowe | African Poetry
i it is rhetorical how your eyes follow the typography of my feet how they squint insatiably like coins in a fountain in italy how they hold me hostage a million padlocks in the sun binding bridge...
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African Writers Hustling Hard | Petina Gappah and Nnedi Okorafor Celebrate...
Social media lets us into the lives of authors in ways that would have been quite inconceivable in the past. Thanks to Facebook, we know who is flying to what country, having drinks with which...
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Lights Were Missing | by Madufor Ifunanya | An African Story
She was doing fine. He liked it. He liked women who were different. He liked her. He was very sure of it. “Hello”, he said “Hi,” she replied “Do I know you from anyway or somewhere?” She gave him a...
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Hairpin | by Oluwatoke Adejoye | An African Story
Tomilola knew that most times when women caught their husbands cheating, it was either through text messages, discovering a strange female underwear, or a lipstick or foundation stained shirt—as was...
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Balaraba R. Yakubu Writes in the Kitchen, in the Car, on Her Phone | A Lesson...
The image of the writer hunched over a notebook or scribbling deliriously for long stretches of time at a lamp-lit desk is a fantasy in more ways than one. For many, the act of writing takes place in...
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