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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 2018/11/15

Out There: 5 Talkbits on War Futures in Outer Spaces | Ainehi Edoro, Camae Ayewa, Rasheeda Phillips, Keith Spencer & Jamie Thomas in Conversation

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As part of its Horizons of the Humanities initiative, the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) will be hosting […]

Features 2018/11/15

Excerpt #2 | My Sister, The Serial Killer | by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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FATHER Ayoola inherited the knife from him (and by “inherited” I mean she took it from his possessions before […]

Features 2018/11/15

Scholastique Mukasonga’s Novel, Our Lady of the Nile, in Film Production as Short Story Appears in The New Yorker

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Rwanda’s best known contemporary writer, Scholastique Mukasonga, author of the novel Our Lady of the Nile (2015) and the memoir Cockroaches […]

Contact Us 2018/11/15

The 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award: Meet the 8 Finalists

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The shortlists for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in October. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the […]

Features 2018/11/13

Demons in the Villa | Excerpt from Ebenezer Obadare’s Pentecostal Republic

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Pentecostal Republic takes a hard look at the influence of pentecostalism in Nigerian politics. Prof. Obadare is a sociologist, who […]

Features 2018/11/13

Yasmin Belkhyr, Romeo Oriogun, Liyou Libsekal, JK Anowe Featured in Forthcoming 20.35 Africa Anthology Guest-Edited by Gbenga Adesina and Safia Elhillo

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In February, we announced a call for submissions for a new poetry project. The anthology, 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, […]