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GoFundMe | Donate to Help Egyptian Writer and Feminist Icon Nawal El Saadawi...
The Egyptian writer and feminist icon Nawal El Sadaawi is ill. To foot her medical bills, a GoFundMe appeal was set up on February 13 to raise $20,000. So far, 76 people have responded with donations...
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Sarah Waiswa’s Twitter Thread on African Women Photographers Is a Visual Fest
Recently on Twitter, the Ugandan-born Kenya-based photographer Sarah Waiswa gave us a curation of stunning photos by African female photographers. It is a long thread, containing brief introductions...
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What Really Is Political Correctness? The LGBTQI+ Struggle, Western...
1. Every year thousands of students would pour into Nakuru Town’s Christ the King auditorium in all their cultural beauty to perform the dances, verses, plays and stories that carried the day at the...
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Cassava Republic Shortlisted for Small Press of the Year at the British Book...
UK-based Nigerian publishing company Cassava Republic has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards’ inaugural Small Press of the Year recognition. The award, sponsored by CPI Group, was “launched...
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Chika Unigwe Calls Out Seun Kuti for Ignorant Comments on African Women and...
The long struggle of Nigerian entertainers with gender expectations, and in particular what feminism actually is, is well documented. From WizKid threatening to send his 16-year-old cousin to beat up...
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Children of Blood and Bone Film Gets Rick Famuyiwa as Director
Fox 2000’s film adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone: Legacy of Orisha, the first novel in her YA trilogy which attracted a million dollar advance, spent 25 consecutive weeks on The...
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Saraba Magazine Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Free Back Issues, Book...
Ten days ago, on 15 February 2019, Saraba Magazine turned ten. As part of its anniversary celebration, the magazine has made its back issues available, given away books to its Nigerian readers, and...
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Saraba at 10: A Guide to the Magazine’s 30 Issues, Poetry Chapbooks, and...
As part of its 10th anniversary celebration, Saraba Magazine recently made all of its back issues available. This comprises 30 releases: 22 main issues, five individual poetry chapbook releases, and...
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For the Novel’s 10th Anniversary, Cassava Republic Is Reissuing Sarah Ladipo...
Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s debut novel In Dependence was published in 2009 by Cassava Republic Press and has since sold more than three million copies in Nigeria. To mark the novel’s 10th anniversary,...
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Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol I | HOLAAfrica, Bel South &...
Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol I is a collaboration anthology by HOLAAfrica, the curator Bel South, and GALA Archives. The following press release is by the anthology team members...
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In Conversation: Cheswayo Mphanza & Nkateko Masinga Discuss Language, Trauma,...
20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, the first independent African anthology to focus only on poetry from across the continent, arrived in November 2018—the ninth e-anthology Brittle...
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The Vanguard Book of Love Stories | New Anthology of Short Fiction Now Available
The Vanguard Book of Love Stories is a new anthology of short fiction focused on romance. It is the third by the Nigeria-based book promotion company Vanguard Literary Services—after Gossamer:...
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Oyinkan Braithwaite, Diana Evans, Akwaeke Emezi Longlisted for the 2019...
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s crime thriller My Sister, the Serial Killer, Diana Evans’ exploration of midlife crisis Ordinary People, and Akwaeke Emezi’s autobiographical Freshwater have been longlisted for...
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Twenty-one Writers Longlisted for the 2018/19 Short Story Day Africa Prize
Twenty-one writers have been longlisted for the 2018/19 Short Story Day Africa Prize. Founded in 2011, the Short Story Day Africa Prize—which offers US$800 for first place, $200 for second place, and...
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OkayAfrica’s 100 Women List 2019 Includes Aminatta Forna, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf,...
The novelist Aminatta Forna, Cassava Republic Press co-founder Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, the essayist and activist Sisonke Msimang, the novelist Tomi Adeyemi, the memoirist Clemantine Wamariya, and the...
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Charles Mungoshi’s Quiet Influence on Zimbabwean Literature | Tinashe...
It is no exaggeration to say that Charles Mungoshi, who died on 16 February in Harare, aged 71, was one of the most important writers both in English and in a local language—in this case, Shona—to...
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African Literary Digest: 101 Notable Pieces of 2018
It was inevitable: compiling a list as monstrous as this would consume time, cause a delay. But here we are. 2018 came with its own firsts and highs. A new major publishing house came on board: The...
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Ten Poets Shortlisted for the 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize
Ten poets have been shortlisted for the 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Among them are the Nigerian poets Inua Ellams and Mary-Alice Daniel who are making their third and second...
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Event | (Re)membering Africa: Women’s Narratives Conference at the University...
On 28-30 March, the University of Houston will be hosting a conference themed “(Re)membering Africa: Women’s Narratives on the Continent and Beyond.” In an email to Brittle Paper, the novelist Novuyo...
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This Is How We Love | Diriye Osman | Introduction to Go the Way Your Blood...
On 8 April, Brittle Paper will publish Go the Way Your Blood Beats: New Short Fiction from Africa, an anthology of twelve short stories exploring queerness in Southern Africa. Edited by the South...
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