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Features 2016/06/06

Family Meeting | by Mazi Nwonwu | African Sci-fi

  4: 35 pm, June 1 2089, Abuja, Capital city of the Union of West African States “And that was how I discovered I have a fifteen year old son,” I said, forcing my eyes to rest on the ‘M’ shaped wrinkle line on the forehead of the grey mustached man reclining on the alligator […]

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Features, Stories and Poems 2015/11/23

Hitmaid | by Nicholas Rawhani | An African Story

After Robot. The Houghton streets are a peculiar place in the morning. Taxi-loads of pastel dressed women walk into houses like 1950’s American men would leave them, all at 8am. A woman calling herself Grace just got out of the taxi and headed to number 43. Of course Grace’s name wasn’t Grace. But Grace was […]

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Features 2015/09/09

Stellar Travels and Alien Warfare | Read the Excerpt of Nnedi Okarofor’s New Novel Binti

Nnedi Okorafor is, by all account, Africa’s most hardworking novelist. The Book of Phoenix hit the stands a few months ago. Right before that, a slightly extended version of Lagoon was published in the US. And here we are eagerly awaiting the release of yet another novel titled Binti and published by Tor.com. The first thing that strikes you […]

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Features 2019/06/25

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey & Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Join the Royal Society of Literature as Honourary Fellows

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Caine Prize chair Ellah Wakatama Allfrey and Cassava Republic Press co-founder Bibi Bakare-Yusuf have been inducted into the UK’s Royal […]

Features 2019/06/24

The Inaugural Africa Writes – Bristol Festival, an Offshoot of Africa Writes in London, Set for Seven Days of Performances, Panels, Launches & Workshops

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In 2017, Africa Writes, the UK’s biggest festival celebrating African literature, moved beyond London for the first time, organizing pop-up […]

Features 2019/06/24

Earn €1,500 at Goethe-Institut’s U-40 Writers’ Residencies in Burkina Faso | How to Apply

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The Goethe-Institut/Bureau de liaison in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, has called for applications to its new 2019/2020 residencies […]

Features 2019/06/21

Molara Ogundipe, Poet, Editor, & Founder of the Stiwanist Movement in Feminism, Passes on at 78

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The Nigerian professor, poet, critic, editor, activist and leading feminist thinker Molara Ogundipe has passed on at 78. She died […]

Features 2019/06/21

Namwali Serpell on Using a Swarm of Mosquitoes as Narrator in Her New Novel, The Old Drift

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Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift has been a hit with critics. Hailed as the Great Zambian Novel and […]

Features 2019/06/19

Nnedi Okorafor’s Broken Places & Outer Spaces, Her 15th Book in 14 Years and First of Nonfiction, Now Available

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Nnedi Okorafor’s memoir, Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected, was published yesterday, 18 June, by Simon […]

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