The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma
October 23, 2025 .
African Literature
The Road to the Country is not about reimagining war. It’s about facing it; its chaos, silence and legacy. It’s about the people w...
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October 23, 2025 .
African Literature
The Road to the Country is not about reimagining war. It’s about facing it; its chaos, silence and legacy. It’s about the people w...
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October 2, 2025 .
African Literature
A US-based publisher of African literature, Iskanchi Press, has extended the deadline for submissions to its design contest for Th...
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September 17, 2025 .
African Literature
Think of Freshwater book as Eddie and Venom: the parasitical aspect, with its supreme interactions with the ordinary.
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September 17, 2025 .
African Literature
Swallow is a Queernormative historical fiction that reimagines the lives of Efunsetan Aniwura and Efunporonye Osuntinubu, two powe...
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September 16, 2025 .
African Literature
Eloghosa Osunde writes in a way that keeps the reader in awe and gives shivers. Refreshing. Subliminal. Surreal. Daring.
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September 12, 2025 .
African Literature
In Some Angels Don’t See God, Ever Obi has crafted a work that lingers in memory, in feeling, and in the difficult but neces...
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September 2, 2025 .
African Literature
In the end, Parlour Wife is not without merit. It’s readable, even engaging at points, but its flaws hold it back from being...
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September 2, 2025 .
African Literature
So yes, Your Tomorrow Was Today is guaranteed to be a book that will touch you, regardless of gender, interests or philosophy. ...
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August 18, 2025 .
African Literature
At the heart of it, An Unusual Grief is about survival, not the neat, inspirational kind, but the messy kind that doesn’t always m...
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August 18, 2025 .
African Literature
In The Full Picture, we see how Carmichael presents Robyn’s grief as a language to learn, one that reshapes her identity. ...
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August 9, 2025 .
African Literature, Lists
In these 15 quotes about grief, we see its many forms: communal, private, raging, and numb. Through their words, we find courage t...
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August 7, 2025 .
African Literature, Lists
Contrary to what some people think, Africans do read. Here are twenty of the most prominent African literary festivals that you...
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