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At the Purple Hibiscus Trust Workshop | Clementine Ewokolo-Burnley

There is water everywhere, a skyline, tall buildings, twinkling lights, pleasure craft behind locked gates. Leaning back in the taxi, I relax. I’m in Lagos, on my way to the Purple Hibiscus Trust Workshop. Twenty-two writers, ten days, reading, writing, critiques, eating, arguing, bonding. The email on November 7, which started with “Dear Clementine” and […]

The Longlist for the 2018 Golden Baobab Prize Announced

The longlist for the 2018 Golden Baobab Prize is out. The prizes provide opportunities for African writers and illustrators to produce more culturally-relevant children’s books. They are organized by Golden Baobab, a Ghana-based arts and culture literary nonprofit that works to increase representation of Africa in the children’s book world. This year, over 300 entries of […]

PHOTOS | Bambooks Limited Launches Mobile Reading App and Announces Monthly Subscription Service

There is a myth that says Africans do not read and if you want to hide something from them put it in a book. A Lagos-based start-up company, Bambooks, is out to prove that these statements are indeed false and that Africans especially Nigerians love reading books. On Thursday 22nd November, Bambooks held a Press […]

Nora Roberts Releases Statement on Tomi Adeyemi’s Plagiarism Accusation

Things have taken a different turn since bestselling author Tomi Adeyemi apologized for publicly accusing American literary juggernaut Nora Roberts of plagiarism. Yesterday, we reported that Tomi Adeyemi called out Nora Roberts for what she saw as an unfair use of her title, saying that Roberts was seeking to “shamelessly profit” from her work. Everything […]

Tomi Adeyemi Apologizes to Nora Roberts Following Accusations of Unfair Use of Title

Yesterday, on November 27, Nigerian-American fantasy writer Tomi Adeyemi accused American novelist Nora Roberts of what she perceived to be an unfair use of her titled. In March, Adeyemi had published her blockbuster debut novel titled Children of Blood and Bone, which sounds very similar to Nora Roberts’ forthcoming book titled Of Blood and Bone and set for a […]

The 2018 Brittle Paper Awards: The Winners

The Brittle Paper Awards is our way of recognizing the finest, original pieces of literature by Africans available online for free. We began it in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary. The $1,100 cash prize is spread across five categories which reflect our efforts to capture the range and variations of literary dialogue on the continent: the Brittle Paper Award […]

One Whole Month of Delicious Excerpts from My Sister, The Serial Killer

It’s always fun to introduce the Brittle Paper community to amazing new writing, especially when it is a crime story loaded with dark, snarky comedy. My Sister, The Serial Killer tells the story of a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. The Nigerian edition of the book, published by Lagos […]

The 2018 Brittle Paper Awards: Announcing the Shortlists

We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by Africans published online. The $1,100 cash prize is split across five categories: the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction ($200), the Brittle Paper Award […]