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Features April 11, 2019

He Owned a Bakery, Wanted a Film Adaptation, Liked Japanese Fan Dolls | Photos & Entries from Ainehi Edoro’s Facebook Diary of Visit to Amos Tutuola Archive

Brittle Paper founder and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Ainehi Edoro recently visited the Amos Tutuola Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Her four days at the institute were chronicled in four Facebook posts. We are sharing the posts, along with photos. DAY ONE I am currently visiting the […]

Translator Publishes List of 146 Books by 66 African Authors Selling in Chinese

A translator of Chinese into English, Bruce Humes, has published a list of 146 books by 66 African authors selling in China. In his list, some of the books, likely academic texts, are grouped under “Introduction to African Drama,” “Introduction to African Epics,” “Introduction to African Literature,” “Poetry Collections,” “Short Story Collections,” and “Taiwan Editions.” […]

Chigozie Obioma is Honored to be Named Winner of Top Financial Times Award

Congrats to Chigozie Obioma for winning the Financial Times Emerging Voices Award. He won the high-profile prize for his novel The Fishermen, one of the most successful debuts in the contemporary African literary scene. The novel has been embraced by readers and critics in Europe and America. And Cassava Republic is already working on a Nigerian […]

#OurList: 6 African Travel Novels to Fuel Your Wanderlust

Good grief! The summer is here already. As you all know, it’s the season of travel. Are you zapping off to a different country? Popping by a nearby city? Headed out to a professional engagement? Or jetting off to an exotic vacation? Well, don’t let laptops and bikinis, dapper suits and summer dresses take all […]

Five Mind-bending and Mood-altering African Novels

Sleepwalking Land (1999) by Mia Cuto, Mozambique A boy and an old man are survivors in a post-apocalyptic, war-ravaged town. They stumble upon a burned-out bus and decide to make it home. While clearing out the corpses trapped and burned in the bus, they find a journal kept by one of the dead passengers, […]

What Does Your Favorite African Novel Say About You?

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe You are a vintage soul. You like old things. Stories about lost, ruined worlds is your favorite kind of tragedy. While you’re not entirely nostalgic, the past does hold, for you, a fair amount of aura. You are not much of a talker, not because you are shy or introverted […]

Faber & Faber Should Be Slapped for the New Tutuola Book Covers

The UK publishing powerhouse, Faber &Faber, is re-issuing several titles from Amos Tutuola’s repertoire and these are the covers they dreamt up. This lazy graphic art that looks like generic Photoshop patterns. Tutuola’s work deserves much better. His first novel, The Palmwine Drinkard, was published by Faber & Faber way back in 1952. It was […]

Is This A Riddle, A Puzzle, Or A Legal Conundrum? | Tales By Tutuola

There was a man who had three wives, these three wives loved him so much that they were following him to wherever he wanted to go, and the husband loved them as well. One day, this man was going to another town which was very far away, and his three wives followed him. But […]