The 10 African Books on TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
TIME Magazine has published a list of the “100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time” and 10 of them are African! In 2019, TIME assembled a panel of eight fantasy authors to rate 250 books on the basis of...
View ArticleYewande Omotoso’s New Novel An Unusual Grief Forthcoming in 2021
Nigerian writer Yewande Omotoso’s third novel will be published will be published by Cassava Republic in Autumn 2021. The book, titled An Unusual Grief, is about “a woman’s effort to come to terms with...
View ArticleWinners of the 2020 Nommo Awards Announced by The African Speculative Fiction...
The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) has announced the winners of the 2020 Nommo Awards. The winners were revealed in a presentation made on 25th October by Mame Bougouma Diene, Setor...
View ArticleBernardine Evaristo Chairs Judging Panel of the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Bernadine Evaristo has been announced chair of the judging panel for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction. This comes months after she was shortlisted for the same prize for her eighth novel Girl, Woman,...
View ArticleThe 2020 Brittle Paper Persons of the Year Awards | Open for Nominations
Hey Brittle Paper readers! We’re excited to announce the 2020 Brittle Paper‘s Persons of the Year awards. We began the Brittle Paper African Literary Person of the Year awards in 2015 to celebrate a...
View ArticleChibundu Onuzo’s Dọlápọ̀ is Fine Now Streaming on Netflix UK!
Dọlápọ̀ is Fine, the short film co-produced, co-written, and composed by Chibundu Onuzo, is now available to stream on Netflix UK! Onuzo proudly spread the word on Instagram this week: “STOP THE...
View ArticleYaa Gyasi and Toyin Ojih Odutola on the Magic and Constraints of Success
This month’s issue of Harper’s Bazaar features a conversation between Nigerian-American artist, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Ghanaian-American writer, Yaa Gyasi. Both Ojih Odutola and Gyasi emigrated from...
View ArticleS. L. Manyika’s New Granta Essay Celebrates The Magnificent Life of Margaret...
In her most recent essay for Granta, British-Nigerian novelist Sarah Ladipo Manyika steps into the role of cultural archivist as she charts the magnificent life and career path of Margaret Busby. In...
View Article“O, the Arrogance!”| Bernardine Evaristo Calls Out British Novelist Martin...
In an interview with The Standard on October 21, British writer Martin Amis shared some choice words about the validity of the Booker Prize, for which he has been listed twice in his career but never...
View ArticleEnter the 2020 Akuko Literary Contest | Deadline: November 15
Akuko is a new online magazine founded with the aim of “champion(ing) writing by Black writers from the African continent and its vast diaspora.” Akuko means story in Igbo and rooster in Yoruba. The...
View ArticleHeart of Darkness as White Masculine Adventure Narrative — Watch Episode 16...
The seventeenth episode of Professor Ato Quayson’s vlog Critic.Reading.Writing is up! In this episode, the professor discusses Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and its place among other white...
View ArticleLola Shoneyin, Tomi Adeyemi, and Others Nominated for the 2020 Future Awards...
The Future Awards Africa has announced the nominees for the 2020 edition. The nominees, who were unveiled in a special broadcast on Channels TV and Pop Central hosted by Ghana’s Dela Michel and...
View ArticleTea House: A New Magazine for Rwandan Writers
Tea House is a new literary magazine founded by writer and editor Alain Jules Hirwa. It launched in September 2020 with the mission of showcasing the finest literary work from Rwanda. In an email to...
View ArticleChimamanda Adichie Crowned “Winner of Winners” of Women’s Prize for Fiction
Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun wins Women’s Prize for Fiction’s 25th anniversary award. Dubbed “winner of winners,” the award makes Adichie the most important author to have ever won the...
View ArticleFor Auction: Autographed First Edition of Things Fall Apart!
It’s Chinua Achebe’s birthday today! We’ve been leading up over the past week to today with a series of Instagram posts about Achebe’s life and works, but to mark the occasion itself, we’re auctioning...
View ArticleLiterary Scholars Weigh in on Black Panther in Special Issue of Cambridge...
The seventh volume of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry features scholarly essays about Black Panther directed by Ryan Coogler. Following its 2018 release, Black Panther became the...
View ArticleFeminist Giant is Mona Eltahawy’s Newsletter Against “Patriarchal F**kery”
Egyptian-American writer, activist, and feminist Mona Eltahawy has launched her own newsletter, Feminist Giant. The author of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls and Headscarves and Hymens has...
View ArticleThe English Translation of Eritrean Novelist Haji Jabir’s Black Foam is Set...
Black Foam by Eritrean novelist Haji Jabir is finally going to be available in English. The novel, which explores the experiences of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel, is set for a 2021 release...
View ArticleMaaza Mengiste on the Challenges of Doing Research for African Historical...
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Maaza Mengiste discussed the challenges of researching the Second Italo-Ethiopian War for her Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Shadow King. Mengiste...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Gossip in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea — Watch Episode 18 of...
The eighteenth episode of Professor Ato Quayson’s vlog Critic.Reading.Writing is up! In this episode, the professor discusses Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, commonly known as the postcolonial response...
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