African Literature

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Sola Osofisan’s “The Simple Joys of Her Final Days” Presents Wry Portraits of Nigerian Life at Home and Abroad

Osofisan’s descriptions of the lives of the Nigerian poor, – the lower classes living out…

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Ama Ata Aidoo: 10 Things You May Not Have Known About The Ghanaian Feminist Writer

With her narrative style of writing, Ama Ata Aidoo challenged the pigeonhole role assigned to…

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15 Emerging and Gifted Voices Amplifying African Literature Today

By Sybil Fekurumoh, Chimezie Chika, and Ijeoma Anastasia Ntada Edited by Nzube Nlebedim African literature has become…

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Soyinka’s Captivating Literature “Death and the King’s Horseman” Currently Showing at the Stratford Festival

The play is directed by Ghanaian-Canadian playwright, Tawiah M’Carthy. By Editor “Death and the King’s Horseman,”…

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How the Traditional Publishing Industry in Africa Is Shaping the Emergence of New Voices in African Literature

When these Western publishers shifted their gaze elsewhere or closed their exclusively African imprints, their…

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Chukwuemeka Famous’s Debut Novel, “We Will Live Again,” Set for Publication in November 2022 by Griots Lounge

Famous notes that it were the conflicts between his father, mother, and younger brother that…

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Zimbabwean Novelist, NoViolet Bulawayo, longlisted for 2022 Booker Prize

She emerges this year as the only African on the list for the prestigious literary…

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Kenyan Writer, Idza Luhumyo, Wins 23rd AKO Caine Prize for African Writing

By Editor Kenyan writer, Idza Luhumyo, has been announced winner of the 2022 AKO Caine…

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What is Yet Unsaid about Eloghosa Osunde and Her Novel, “Vagabonds!”

To people like herself, Eloghosa Osunde’s Vagabonds! is a letter of kinship. It speaks to…

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The Orientations of the Street in Jindu Enugbe’s “Street OT”

…Enugbe leads with great finesse, with so much awareness, giving us sweeping and funny narratives,…