The 30th issue of Critical Muslim, the influential Hurst quarterly showcasing ground-breaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world, focuses on West Africa. Guest-edited by Bissau-Guinean writer Yovanka Paquete Perdigao and Henry Brefo, it features short stories by the Cameroonian Bakwa Magazine editor Dzekashu Mcviban […]
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Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Is Not Hassan Reza: An Evening with the Novelist | Ikechukwu Ogbu
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is now a national superstar. His first novel, Season of Crimson Blossoms, won the 2016 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, which at $100,000 is Africa’s richest literary prize. For a book first published in Nigeria, it’s phenomenal that it’s gone on to be released in the UK, the US, India, and France, […]
The Inaugural Minna Book and Arts Festival To Be Headlined by Zaynab Alkali, First Northern Nigerian Female Novelist in English
The inaugural Minna Book and Arts Festival will be held from 18-21 September in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. It is an initiative of AMAB Books & Publishing and The Arts-Muse Fair, both of which are headquartered in Minna and have jointly and separately organized a host of literary and arts events in the city. Themed “Northern […]
Enter for OkadaBooks and Union Bank’s N850K Campus Writing Challenge to be Judged by Chika Unigwe and Abubakar Ibrahim
Nigeria’s leading e-publisher OkadaBooks has partnered with Union Bank of Nigeria, one of the country’s biggest financial institutions, for a writing contest worth N850,000 to the winners and runners-up. The Campus Writing Challenge, for which only undergraduates of Nigerian schools are eligible, will be judged by two winners of the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature: Chika […]
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Is the 2018 Recipient of the Michael Elliot Award for Journalism
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is the 2018 recipient of the Michael Elliot Award for Excellence in African Storytelling. He won the Award for his report in Granta titled “All That Was Familiar.” Brittle Paper covered the publication of the story in May 2017. It focuses on the lives of women who, after being kidnapped by Boko […]
The Brittle Paper Anniversary Award: Meet the Nominees
To mark our seventh anniversary on August 1, 2017, we announced the inaugural Brittle Paper Literary Awards, to recognize the finest, original pieces of African writing published online. The awards come in five categories: Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Essays/Think Pieces, and the Anniversary Award for works published on our blog. The winners in the fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and essays/think pieces […]
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