There are many literary projects making a difference in the way we read and talk about African literature. One of such projects is the forthcoming collection of plays titled Contemporary Plays by African Women. The collection features playwrights from various parts of the continent—Sara Shaarawi is from Egyt. Sophia Mempuh Kwachuch is from Cameroon. JC […]
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Chibundu Onuzo is Coming to America! | See All the Dates
US-based fans of Chibundu Onuzo are in luck. Her critically acclaimed second novel Welcome to Lagos will officially be released in the US market on May 1 by Catapult. Onuzo kicks off a month-long US tour on the same day of the release. It promises to be an exciting tour. She will stop at major US […]
Brittle Paper Deputy Editor Otosirieze Obi-Young Signs with Booker Prize-Famed Literary Agency
Brittle Paper’s Deputy Editor Otosirieze Obi-young has joined the client list of David Godwin Associates (DGA), the same agency representing Booker Prize winners Arundhati Roy and Aravind Adiga, and that represented another winner in Kiran Desai, as well as Aminatta Forna. We are still reeling from sharing in the joy of this amazing milestone. This is […]
Yrsa Daley-Ward Featured at the CityLit Festival in Baltimore | Arao Ameny
Baltimore, Maryland — “I don’t care if I’m called an Instagram poet. I really don’t care as long as people are reading it and connecting with it”. Yrsa-Daley Ward, the English-born Nigerian-Jamaican writer, was part of the line-up of writers with featured sessions at CityLit Project’s 15th Annual CityLit Festival in Baltimore on Saturday April 14, […]
Chuma Nwokolo Kicks Off His US Book Tour | See all the Dates
Chuma Nwokolo is currently in the US for a month-long series of book events organized around his new novel The Extinction of Menai. The book was published about a month ago by Ohio University Press’s Modern African Writers imprint and received a Publisher’s Weekly starred review. [Read here if you missed it.] Look through the […]
Teju Cole May Be Coming to Your City, So Check Out His 2018 Tour Dates
Teju Cole has a pretty booked up 2018, which is good news to our ears. It means that Brittle Paper readers have more opportunities to attend one of his events. Cole’s calendar of events shows him visiting lots of American cities, from NYC to Winston Salem in North Carolina. But there are a few international […]
Publisher’s Weekly Decides | The Extinction of Menai is a Thrilling and Funny Novel
We are barely through the first quarter of 2018, and we already have a long list of new African novels to read. Chuma Nwokolo’s Extinction of Menai was published on the 7th of March, the same month that saw the publication of Aminatta Forna’s Happiness, Uzodinma Iweala’s Speak No Evil, and Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of […]
I hold a doctorate in English from Duke University and recently joined the Marquette University English faculty as an Assistant Professor. I love teaching African fiction and contemporary British novels. Brittle Paper is the virtual space/station where I play and experiment with ideas on how to reinvent African fiction and literary culture.
