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 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...
Taiye Selasi gets full marks for swimming against the currents of fiction published by African writers (though “writer of African origin” might better describe ...
Complaints of writers of African origin “performing Africa” (presumably producing literature whose thematic concerns never stray far from the continent’s woes ...
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THE SECRET LIVES OF BABA SEGI'S WIVES had its World Pr...
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...
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...
Loyiso Gola has been called “a genuine thinker masquerading as a fool, and the voice of a cynical generation by Men’s Health South Africa – and he’s a big deal ...
The furore surrounding Emmy award winning director Cary Fukunaga’s film, Beasts Of No Nation, starring Idris Elba and the new comer, Abraham Attah, has died dow...
Angola Cinema book review (WoA)
A three-way creative and restorative partnership between the Portuguese actor and director Miguel Hurst, photographer Walter ...