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Features May 25, 2020

Celebrate Africa Day with These 13 Under-the-Radar African Books Published in the 1960s

It’s Africa Day! To celebrate, we’ve put together a baker’s dozen of under-the-radar books published by African authors during the 1960s. Why the 1960s? Well, because Africa Day was first instituted on May 25, 1963, so we thought this moment would be a good opportunity to cast an eye back to that decade in terms […]

Chimamanda Adichie Loves to Read in Bed + 8 Other Things We Learned from Her Recent NYT Interview

Chimamanda Adichie was recently featured on New York Times’ “By the Book,” an interview series that explores the intimate lives of authors as readers. The questions asked tend to be revealing, which is how we know that Adichie loves to read in bed and that one of her favorite villains is Lady Macbeth. Here are […]

The Magic of Childhood Captured in Six African Novels

Childhood is a stage in life that captivates us all, in part, because it is so elusive. Once we come of age, the experience of being a child—the innocence, bewilderment, and vulnerabilities—are immediately lost to an irrecoverable past. That’s why stories about children trying to make sense of a perplexing world have always been so powerful. […]