Last year, a major festival of Arts and Books launched in Nigeria, and surprisingly it wasn't based in one of the larger cities in the country, Abuja, Calabar, ...
“Journey to Ake”
If you’ve only watched Lagos Airport – the infamous documentary about said airport, your impression of Murtala Muhammed airport will be a bit ...
“The Price of Things”
Last night, after leaving the festival site, called the June 12th Cultural Centre, I took a motorbike taxi home; in the first instance, th...
Tendai Huchu announced his arrival on the literary scene with his novel The Hairdresser Of Harare, in his second offering, The Maestro, The Magistrate & The...
So…a while back, ahead of Africa Writes, in collaboration with the Bookshy Blogger’s Zahrah Nessbit-Ahmed, we published a list of 25 Books by African Women tha...
Four Books to Look Forward to in 2015
Elnathan John, whose first novel is scheduled to be released this year by Cassava Republic
1. Eight New Generation ...
Chimamanda Adichie’s got a short story, “Jumping Monkey Hill”, in which her protagonist, Ujunwa, a young Nigerian writer is stuck in a literary retreat in Cape ...
Michèle Mendelssohn considers the dandy in early 20th-century African-American culture
20th-century dandyism was deeply rooted in 19th-century literary and perf...
Writers discuss the representation of refugees in novels and plays. What ethical questions are involved? Is there a responsibility to represent refugees positiv...
