I found out that people like me have stories and if people could tell stories of ordinary children like me living in Enugu, I would love to read more stories like that. African literature has always been that for me. I didn’t read a lot of foreign books
I am thrilled to engage in a thought-provoking conversation with the immensely talented Ukata Edwardson, a remarkable queer nonbinary poet from Nigeria. Edwardson’s distinct voice
Not all books start with a really nice dedication, but Bridges are for burning does. It goes: As a young girl, I presumed I would
Can one live again, after already living and dying before? Abubakar Adam Ibrahim answers this question in his latest speculative fiction- When We Were Fireflies.
All eight stories that make up the anthology explore the nuances of queerness through a Nigerian lens, imbuing each narrative with an air of hopefulness. Feel Good is available to read for free here.
One of the 23 contributors to the anthology, the Nigerian Kemi Lade in “Catharsis” speaks of “sexistential crisis,” a term she used to describe her earliest state of mind discovering she is a bisexual.
There are many more soldiers who have died from ambushes. Sometimes, survivors who were spared death suffer more. These things are reported in the news. I think that we have lost the capacity to feel them
The play smoothly follows the call and inspection of each soul. First, a woman, whose end is ushered in by her pitiable gullibility.
August, an ostensibly quirky boy, grows up in a house with exuberant sisters, an apathetic father, and no mother. In that loss, his mother’s loss, a loss he never knew yet knew so well, he asks questions:
It is not typical for short stories to yank you tightly and wring you into worlds you never knew because they are fleeting, but Troy’s stories stay with you, his characters alive in your head.
There are many stories of white children available in Switzerland and more and more books with stories of Black kids. But I have not yet come across many books that talk of the experience my children are having…
As you know, I self-published and while I’m glad I did it and I’m grateful for the reach Mad Woman has had…. I don’t think I’m ever self-publishing again. It was not an easy journey, but worthwhile, and I had an incredible support system.
This rare feat of gathering these complexities in Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Madagascar, Libya, Zimbabwe etc. and even in non-African states like Hawaii he pulled off, exhilaratingly so, in this collection that reminds us that no…
Now, the future is vast and open-ended and can be interpreted in any number of ways, but I decided to place some of the futuristic stories within the African and Igbo context.
When I am writing poetry, there is no stage version of me, neither is there a page version of me.
February is the month of love or Afro love, so, we are highlighting Kiru Taye as a teller of love stories. Kiru wanted to read
My female characters can choose what femininity and strength mean to them because they are people with their own unique interests and personalities, just like my male characters have their own different strengths and views on masculinity.
Writing it was inspired by an invitation from my mother. A little over a year after her funeral, on a cold January night, I was sitting on my couch in my apartment in Geneva, journaling, when I heard a familiar yet unexpected voice.
Set inside the ward at Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in Yaba, situated in Lagos, a young nameless narrator unravels a chilling tale of beauty, sexuality, abuse and mystery.
Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria’s societal expectations in the 1980s. After a rape and unwanted pregnancy leave her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, she is sent to her aunt’s in Lagos and pressured into a marriage with an older man.
As we draw the curtains of 2021, clad in left-over pandemic and slow-downs, we are happy to be collecting a list of 30 African writers, in alphabetical order, who you should know in 2022.
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