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African Literary News | Half of a Yellow Sun Makes It to Netflix
Half of a Yellow Sun film is now available for streaming on Netflix. Biyi Bandele’s adaptation of Adichie’s war drama is a 2013 Nollywood-Hollywood collaboration starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel...
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Film Adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation Set for 2015 Release
Yet another African novel makes a bold entrance into Hollywood. Way back in 2013, Deadline announced that Cary Fukunaga, the director of the critically acclaimed HBO show, True Detective, was teaming...
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Who Will Win The 15,000 Dollar Etisalat Prize for Literature?
The Etisalat Prize for Literature kicks off the African literary award season with a ceremony taking place this weekend at the Intercontinental Hotel in Lagos. It’s hard to believe a year has gone by...
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For the Love and Fun of African Literature! | First Photos from the 2014...
Yesterday—March 15—the wall separating pop culture and high literature fell down in what will go down in history as one of the most spectacular literary award ceremonies. It was a night dedicated to...
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How 58 Intellectuals from 25 Countries Took A Bus Ride Across South Africa
A new issue of The Salon is out! And it chronicles the one-of-a-kind travel project that took 58 scholars from 25 countries across South Africa. Guess what! I was one of those 58 lucky passengers who...
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What If Maps Were Made By Africans For Their Own Use? | Chimurenga’s New...
CNN calls Chimurenga Chronic “Africa’s answer to the New Yorker.” But the truth is the New Yorker has nothing on the Cape Town-based magazine. Chimurenga Chronic is edgy and experimental in a way that...
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Wonder Woman in Soweto! | Lauren Beukes Gives African Spin to DC Comic’s...
We know and love Lauren Beukes for spine-tingling urban fantasies like Zoo City, The Shining Girls, and Broken Monsters. Well, it appears there’s even more reason to love South Africa’s “darling of...
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Speech Analysis: Why Buhari’s Acceptance Speech is A Winner
The Nigerian presidential election, which took place this past weekend, was a spectacular display of the democratic process as millions of nigerians waited for up to 12 hours to vote under sun and...
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Why the Claim that Africans Don’t Read is False
Worldreader is a not-for-profit organization that provides “mobile platform for books.” According to The Mail and Guardian, after four years of making digital versions of books accessible to Africans...
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Adichie’s Dreamy Little Story About Bruce Lee and Apollo
The April 15 issue of the New Yorker has a story by Chimamanda Adichie, titled “Apollo.” Don’t get your hopes up. The story is not about space shuttles and thersmospheric exploration. In Nigeria,...
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Adichie Scores Big Again! | She is Wellesley College’s 2015 Commencement Speaker
In a few weeks, Chimamanda Adichie will officially add “commencement speaker at a top US university” to her resume. Days after rounding up her month-long feature in British Vogue, [click here if you...
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We Gave You Refuge, You Give Us Death | Mozambican Novelist Mia Couto Speaks...
The ongoing xenophobic killing in South Africa is sad and shocking. Spine-chilling moments of these killings captured on videos and photographs have been making their rounds on social media, causing a...
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African Pop Fiction | Brittle Paper Launches HOLY SEX! | A Nigerian...
Sex sells. But in Africa, religion sells nearly as much. In a new story series titled Holy Sex, Nigerian novelist Obinna Udenwe unites church and sex to create a new kind of African pop...
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The Quirky African Poem We Can’t Stop Reading | Quarantine With Abdelhalim...
Safia Elhillo is a Sudanese poet based in Washington, DC. She is one of the two winners of the 2015 Brunel University African Poetry Prize. In just three years of being in existence, the £3000 prize...
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Tristar Acquires Movie Rights to Imbolo Mbue’s Million-Dollar Manuscript
Last year, we brought you the news of this Cameroonian writer who snagged a million dollar book deal with Random House. [Read HERE if you missed it.] The Longings of Jende Jonga by Imbolo Mbue—set for...
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Publication Opportunity for African Writers | The Jeli Story Project
Dear Brittlepaperians, here is a publishing opportunity for all you aspiring writers. The Jeli is a literary platform that supports innovative storytelling projects. They are calling for submission....
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Nigeria and Morocco Represent Africa in Booker Prize Longlist
The longlist for the Booker Prize was announced last week, and we are so delighted that there are two Africans on the list of twelve. Morocco and Nigeria are representing the continent with Laila...
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Watch Idris Elba in Film Adaptation of African Novel | Beasts of No Nation By...
“Agu, you are going to kill this man.” Listening to Idris Elba say those words sends shivers down the spine. Intense, gripping, and emotionally charged are a few words to describe this trailer that...
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Major African Literary News! | The Most Expensive African Fiction Manuscript...
The official synopsis for Mbolo Mbue’s novel is finally out. How exciting! And the date we’ve all been waiting for is set. On March 15, 2016, the most anticipated African novel hits the stands. Mbolo...
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Publishing Opportunity For African Writers | Submissions to The Voice...
The editors of a new anthology project called The Voice invite writers and artists to submit their work for publication. The objective of the publication is to use art and literature to tell stories...
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