Review: A bit of difference - Sefi Atta
The pace of Sefi Atta’s latest novel, A Bit of Difference is leisurely; it’s deliberately understated in style, but do...
Just ahead of Africa Writes - quite possibly the UK’s largest celebration of African books and literature, we teamed up with the Bookshy Blogger’s Zahrah Nessbi...
It is now a near-cliché, but it is the truth; African literature is undergoing a renaissance. The reader who loves fiction is enjoying an embarrassment of riche...
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...
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...