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Nigerian Novelist Chika Unigwe to Headline Kampala Writes LitFest’s Third Edition, August 28-30

Kampala Writes LitFest returns for its third edition this August, running August 28–30 in Uganda’s capital, with award-winning Nigerian-born novelist Chika Unigwe headlining as thi...

Chika Unigwe’s O. Henry Prize-Winning Story “Miracle in Lagos Traffic” Comes to Life on Selected Shorts

Chika Unigwe’s short story “Miracle in Lagos Traffic” has been adapted for audio on Selected Shorts, the celebrated public radio series and podcast produced by Symphony Space, in a...

Chika Unigwe’s Grace Is Headed to Russia and Slovenia!

Chika Unigwe’s Grace, published by Canongate earlier this year, has sold translation rights to publishers in Russia and Slovenia, the author announced on Facebook this week. Unigwe...

No. 32 Ene Ndem | Anthonia Okokon | Fiction

  When I thought of home, I thought of Calabar, of No. 32 Ene Ndem, with its uneven stairwell, chipped at the sides and desperately in need of a second or third coat of mortar. I t...

Excerpt: Of Dreams and Quiet Wars: Whispers I Gathered in the Dark by Annabel Sylvester Oromoni 

This is Where I Linger  Belonging is the weight of my name when it doesn’t stumble in someone else’s mouth.    It’s not the walls I grew up with, but the silence between two people...

Bribes, bimbos, and babalawos: An undiplomatic memoir, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Lilian’s story is a three-decade long reel of the kind of interminable coincidence that is not unusual in Nigerian public life. In 1983, the civilian administration of President Sh...

Bruised Ones | Faatima Kabir | Fiction

  Age 17 He came in the middle of our second term, when everybody had already decided who they were going to be. Final year had a way of doing that. Relationships sealed, ambitions...

Throwback: “I am (Un)Seen, I am (Mis)Seen, I am (Over)Seen”: Black Cake, Turtle Soup and Other Dilemmas by Gloria Blizza...

With a MFA from the University of King College, being a multi-award winning Black Canadian writer and poet, she uses her remarkable skills in lyricism and thoughtful analysis to un...

Andrea Bajani: ‘Pas toen ik de eerste reacties zag, begreep ik dat ik over een gigantisch taboe had geschreven’

22 African Literature Books That Made 2016 Unforgettable

Ten years ago, readers were introduced to a remarkable crop of books that would go on to shape contemporary African literature in ways few could have predicted. Yaa Gyasi arrived w...

Een brug van poëzie tussen mijn vader en mijn zusje

The African Dream | Uchanma Kama | Poetry

  My mother said education is the key. Did she lie? Or was she lied to by those who held the lock and sipped tea? Because all I see doesn’t match what she dreamed. I strive night a...

A Shroud Woven In | Aderonke Adeola | Fiction

  The words of the accursed letter were etched in your brain to the point where you could recite it by heart. Nevertheless, you read it multiple times a day regardless of how it fi...

“You Are the First Thing Your Mother Could Own”: Taiye Selasi’s Fiction Debut in The New Yorker Is a Firstborn Daughter’...

Taiye Selasi has a new story in The New Yorker, and it reads more like a letter than fiction, one woman writing to another who already understands what’s coming. “Dear Firstborn Im...

Phi-Yen Phan (32) over haar culinaire afkomst: ‘Vroeger vond ik het lastig om trots te zijn op mijn Vietnamese afkomst.’

Vormgever en kookboekauteur Phi-Yen Phan groeide op tussen de Nederlandse en Vietnamese cultuur. Lange tijd wist ze niet altijd waar ze precies bij hoorde. Inmiddels ziet ze die du...

Whose People Are You? | Chaya Seewoonarain | Creative Non-Fiction

  “So where are your people from?” It’s usually the third or fourth question, after the perfunctory small talk. It’s never been the first question. By then, I’ve already said I’m f...

IN THE DEW OF LITTLE THINGS

On a Tuesday morning in 2024, three Atlanta-based women receive the unfathomable news that the fourth member of their close-knit friend group is missing. From that devastating mome...

Artist Dior Adiele calls out her father after she asked her mother to leave her house

Chidera Dior Adiele, a Nigerian artist, has called out her father on social media. According to Dior, her father

Asako Yuzuki: ‘Ik werd gezien als de schrijver die slechte dingen zegt over vrouwen’

‘’Go home, Nigeria is your home. We won’t accept you in South Africa''- South Afri...

South African women hurled anti-immigrant slurs at former Miss Universe Nigeria, Chidimma Adetshina, amidst her deportati

The Women Who Buried Hope | Dammy Ojikutu | Fiction

  I held onto the collar of his shirt and bit wherever my teeth could find flesh — his neck, his jaw, the soft skin beneath his ear. My nails dug into him until I felt skin give wa...

Fatimazhra Belhirch: ‘Buitenlander, medelander, allochtoon, moslima. Wat wordt mijn volgende stempel?’

CHIDI YOUNG: Phew!

I knew a beautiful woman like her deserved more. That’s why my sleeves were always rolled up. She never complained, but I saw it in her eyes, the way she looked into the stores whe...