The Book of Memory is a bittersweet novel. It tells the story of Memory, an albino woman on death row. The structure of this novel, and the unfolding of its eve...
Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani – A Review
In Secret History of Las Vegas, Mr Abani sheds his considerable serious novelist’s skin with assured st...
Complaints of writers of African origin “performing Africa” (presumably producing literature whose thematic concerns never stray far from the continent’s woes ...
Taiye Selasi gets full marks for swimming against the currents of fiction published by African writers (though “writer of African origin” might better describe ...
The friction between white colonists and indigenous Africans has been covered extensively not least in the works of the old masters like Ngugi and, much more re...
Blackass Review
A first time novelist reinterpreting a well admired classic is a risky endeavour. The cynical expectation might be that said work will fall s...
The exhibition, 'Artist and Empire', which ended last week, was according to its curators the 'first UK exhibition to consider the art of Britain's historical e...
Art Exhibition Review - Cornfields in Accra: KNUST End-of-year Exhibition
Ghanaian writer Ama Atta Aidoo’s poem on growth, survival and thriving amidst the u...
Waaka the musical, which is showing for the next five days in London, has already done well in Nigeria, where its rags to glory, to glory to rags and glory stor...
For one short month, the October Gallery has become a site of radiantly unabashed colour amidst the definitive grey of the London cityscape with its hosting of...