The literary novelist who chooses to put a love story between a boy and a girl at the heart of his or her novel risks accusations of succumbing to the lightweig...
The seed of Sozaboy appears to have been sown as far back as 1969 in an anthologised story called High Life with a very telling title “Africa in Prose”. The edi...
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...
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...
Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani – A Review
So called serious novelists who decide to write in genres are like any number of gods who, displeased w...
It’s not always to a writer’s advantage when he or she prefaces his or her book with quotes from greater works – Chigozie Obioma’s novel, The Fishermen is not l...
Sabo Kpade's play Have Mercy on Liverpool Street was staged by Talawa Theatre Company. His story Chibok was short-listed for the London Short Prize 2015.
