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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 2019/01/22

On Confessional Schizo-Poetry and Finding Meaning: In Conversation with JK Anowe, Winner of the 2017 Brittle Paper Award for Poetry

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JK Anowe, a Nigerian-born poet, holds a BA in French from the University of Benin, Nigeria, where he was awarded […]

Features 2019/01/21

Photos | Pages & Palette Hosts Reading of Frankie Edozien’s Lives of Great Men in Abuja

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Last December, Abuja bookstore Pages & Palette hosted a reading of Chike Frankie Edozien’s memoir Lives of Great Men. Published […]

Features 2019/01/21

Mauritanian Blogger Mohamed Mkhaïtir Has Now Been in Jail for 5 Years

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In December 2013, Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Mkhaïtir wrote a blogpost criticizing his country’s government for using religion to discriminate against minorities. […]

Features 2019/01/21

Read Chapter One of Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities

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Chigozie Obioma’s second novel An Orchestra of Minorities was published this January. As part of The Summer Library’s “selected extracts from […]

Features 2019/01/21

Laila Lalami’s Fourth Novel, The Other Americans, Is a Family Saga, a Murder Mystery, and a Love Story

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Laila Lalami’s new novel is forthcoming on 26 March 2019 from Pantheon, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The 320-page […]

Features 2019/01/21

Thursday’s Children: 11 Contributors to Forthcoming Anthology Discuss Experimentation and the Nature of Creative Nonfiction

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Thursday’s Children is a forthcoming anthology of personal essays. Co-edited by Adams Adeosun and Bello Damilare, it comes with an […]