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2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature Shortlist Announced
Etisalat Prize for African Literature is the only award designed to celebrate debut African fiction. In the few years since it was established, the prize has become a literary institution of...
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Aminatta Forna Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Scottish-Sierra Leonian novelist Aminatta Forna made the Queen’s 2017 New Year Honors. She was appointed Officers of the Order of the British Empire award, which means she receives a medal of honor...
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Review | Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature From Sudan and South Sudan
In bringing together writings from the Sudan and South Sudan—two warring nations—Literary Sudans challenges the mainstream notion that both countries have little else to offer beyond images of war,...
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Chibundu Onuzo’s New Short Story is About Love, Weight Loss, and Instagram
Chibundu Onuzo’s second novel Welcome to Lagos hit the stands a few days ago. She’s also gifted us a brand new short story that incorporates everything we obsess about in contemporary...
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Ifemelu is Mesmerizing in Concept Trailer for Adichie’s Americanah
In 2014, Lupita Nyongo acquired the film rights for Adichie’s Americanah. Not long after, Brad Pitt’s production company, in collaboration with Pot Boiler, signed up to produce the film. [read her if...
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Ibim Pt. 2 | by Sotonye Dan | Nigerian University Stories
VII “Greatest Nigerian Students!” — “Great!” “Upon the Greateeeeesst Nigerian Students!” –“Great!” “‘For in the final analysis,’ John F. Kennedy said, ‘our most basic common link is that, we all...
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Interview | Ukamaka Olisakwe on her First-time Visit to the US
Ukamaka Olisakwe is the author of Eyes of a Goddess, her debut novel published in 2012 by Piraeus Books, Massachusetts. Her stories have appeared in various online journalist and blogs including...
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Is Social Media Eroding the Influence of Soyinka’s Generation?
A few weeks ago, we posted a story about the mob of Nigerian online trolls who came after Soyinka because of statements he made regarding the US election. [read here if you missed it] The air has now...
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Google Celebrates Flora Nwapa with a “This Day in History” Doodle
Today is Flora Nwapa‘s birthday and Google celebrates it with one of its signature anniversary doodle. Flora Nwapa is Nigeria’s first female novelist. She was a close friend of Chinua Achebe who gave...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Asymptote Journal’s Translation Contest
Asymptote Journal runs an annual translation contest called Close Approximations. The 1000-dollar prize goes to the best fiction or poetry translation. The prize is international and open to anyone in...
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14: An Anthology of Queer Art | Vol. 1: We are Flowers
The 13th of January is an unfortunate day in Nigeria’s history. It marks one of the nation’s greatest human rights failures. On that day in 2014, Nigeria gave homophobia full legal recognition in the...
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Dear Genevieve, It’s All in the Narrative | By Pa Ikhide
Dear Genevieve, There is not a shortage of advice to writers, young African writers like you are beneficiaries of unctuous sermons on what, how and where to write, most of it patronizing. Well,...
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Dying Flowers | by Martins Ekong | African Poetry
I DON’T know how I got here believe me, yesterday I lived in birds’ songs which means my heart once had feathers today I’m a house filled with questions and children cry into my bones covering their...
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The Bewitching Book Covers of Okorafor’s Akata Witch and Akata Warrior
Nnedi Okorafor releases not one but two new book covers, one of which is for the forthcoming sequel of Akata Witch. She teams up yet again with Greg Ruth for the beautiful covers. Last year, Cross...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Apply to the Goethe-Bakwa-Saraba Literary...
Writers in Lagos and Yaounde have a chance to take part in a new literary initiative. The Goethe-Institute is teaming up with Lagos-based Saraba Magazine and Bakwa Magazine in Yaounde to create a...
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Nigerian Novelist Obinna Udenwe and Nwamaka Okpo’s Beautiful Wedding Celebration
Congrats to Nigerian novelist Obinna Udenwe! He recently tied the knot with the love of his life, Nwamaka Okpo, an accountant based in Enugu. A series of ceremonies marked the joyous occasion. The...
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Memoirs of a Lagos Wedding Planner | Episode 1: The Almost Wedding | by...
My client and I had been planning this wedding for months. It was going to be a big affair, attended by the elite in society. Pearl had been dating her fiancé for five years, and she kept telling me...
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PHOTOS | Abantu Book Festival: A Literary Platform for Black Writers and Readers
On December 6th, history was made in South Africa with the inauguration of the Abantu Festival. Black writers in South Africa and from other parts of the continent gathered in Soweto to celebrate...
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Dear Genevieve, Find Your Voice | by Pa Ikhide
How are you? What are you up to? I am going back and reading the old classics from the African Writers Series and Fontana books, you know, African writers that I read in the seventies. Many of them...
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Teju Cole is a Finalist for PEN America’s Richest ($75,000) Prize
Congrats to Teju Cole for being named a finalist in what might be PEN’s most prestigious prize yet. The PEN/Jean Stein Book Award is a brand new, multi-genre literary prize designed to recognize a...
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