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Chigozie Obioma on Jowhor Ile’s Debut Novel | Good Opening, Awkward Ending
Johwor Ile’s And After Many Days is one of the most highly anticipated and much talked-about African novels of 2016. The novel is finally out! It is a suspenseful family drama that tells the story of...
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The Flesh and Blood of Family | by Abigail George | African Poetry
The flesh and blood of family The ominous map of my mother is a landscape of green glass that makes me flinch. There’s the pleasing memory of dance in the dreams that come to us while we sleep. Lust...
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Professor Banda | by Keletso Mopai | An African Story
It was the second semester of my first year, having made my way through the first semester and passing all my first semester modules. My roommate and friend Ntokozo and I walked to Professor .M....
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Say Hello to DJ Teju! | Teju Cole Sets Up a New Fanbase on Spotify
Teju Cole’s fans run to him for all sorts of things—for advice on how to be a good writer [here], for his work as a storyteller, his illuminating commentaries on photography, his effortless star power...
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This Excerpt of Roland Rugero’s New Burundian Novel is Pure Pastoral Magic
A couple of weeks ago, the English translation of Roland Rugero‘s second novel hit the stands, making Rugero the latest in a growing body of foreign language African novelists gaining access to a...
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“I am Liberian, Not a virus”| Hawa Jande Golakai’s Granta Essay is a Dazzling...
Hawa Jande Golakai takes the art of essay writing to a whole new level in her resent feature on Granta. The essay is titled “Fugee” and chronicles her experience of the Ebola crisis. “Fugee” is...
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My Ake Festival Video on the African Literary Scene is Out!
November last year, I was in Abeokuta attending the Ake Art and Books Festival. Last year’s festival was themed “Engaging the Fringe,” and I was invited in my capacity as a literary blogger to...
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Chastity, Virginity & Sex | by Sihle Isipho Nontshokweni | African Poetry
As she offers you emeralds, pebbles, gems of crystal cisterns inside her, you unlock a celestial storehouse opening a treasured trunk, there you find a chastity box, with pages of purity parameters,...
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The Pink House | by Ola Awonubi | An African Story
My mother always used to say that we lived on the decent part of the street where the houses had larger yards and cars but smaller families. The other side was for those whose social standing meant...
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A Matatu, a Blind Date, and a Haughty Girl | by Kimuyu Kariuki | An African...
I’m running late. I have just lied to baba again. I do that a lot nowadays. Baba doesn’t understand that I am a girl and that a girl has needs. I have to look like Barbie—the one beside my bed. That’s...
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“The Story Came in a Steady Rush”| Nnedi Okorafor Announces a Binti Sequel
Nnedi Okorafor’s space-girl odyssey, a novella titled Binti, has been a hit ever since it was published last year. Little surprise that she is teaming up again with Tor.com to publish a sequel to the...
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Superhero Africa | Review of Roye Okupe’s Legend of Wale Williams | by Joshua...
Roye Okupe’s E.X.O.: The Legend of Wale Williams – Part One, like many superhero comic books and graphic novels, is a coming-of-age story or, perhaps, an “origin story”— which is more or less the same...
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Your Photo | by Deji Adesoye | African Poetry
You’re in the frenzy business around the kitchen. You’re presently mixing tomato with celery Or, you’re turning semo, or dishing, or maybe You’re somewhere under a lamp deeping Your being into the...
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Chika Unigwe Heads to Brown University as Bonderman Professor of Creative...
Nigerian novelist Chika Unigwe posted very exciting news on Twitter a few days ago. She announced that she had been awarded a teaching position at Brown University. I’ve just been offered a one year...
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Adichie Dazzles with Post-Baby Glow in Vanity Fair Feature
News of Adichie’s pregnancy surfaced on the internet in July. [read here if you missed it.] We have since heard that the Adichie-Esege baby has graced the world with its presence. Adichie returned to...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Apply for the Ibadan Poetry Book Fund Workshop
Here is a chance for aspiring poets to participate in an 8-week mentorship program that could lead to a residency in Ibadan. Only Nigerian applicants are eligible. See below for details on how to...
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Biafran Solja! | by Favour Emmanuel | An African Story
Jollof rice. Hot Jollof rice comes to your mind as you leave the office on Friday afternoon. Jollof rice with plenty of onions. Mom says onions is good for your womb. You always laugh when she says...
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Perfect Send Of | by Margaret Muthee | An African Story
The moment the rain hit the ground, Sifa knew the rest of the event would be a disaster. There was something about how the raindrops kissed the earth, violently like a jilted lover forcefully seeking...
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Victor Ehikhamenor Continues to Create Spell-Binding Artwork
The 12th edition of the Dakar Biennale is currently in progress. All through the next few weeks, an international community of artists will assemble in Dakar to celebrate contemporary African art. One...
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The Banquet | by Wana Udobang | African Poetry
This exclusive piece of spoken-word poetry by Nigerian poet and filmmaker Wana Udobang is a special treat for lovers of African poetry. In the poem, titled “The Banquet,” Udobang uses the celebratory...
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