Forthcoming from Cassava Republic Press—globally on 16 October, 2018 and in the US on 7 November, 2018—Nigerian writer and art critic Emmanuel Iduma’s A Stranger’s Pose is a mix of memoir, travelogue, and photography: an expansion of travel writing in African literature, a genre with little published in it so far. At 208 pages, A Stranger’s Pose is a immersive […]
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Emmanuel Iduma’s A Stranger’s Pose Mixes Memoir, Travelogue, and Photography, Reinventing African Travel Writing
Nigerian writer and art critic Emmanuel Iduma is the editor of Saraba magazine and a faculty member of the MFA Art Writing program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. His first book, a novel, was published by Parresia in 2012 as Farad, and republished by The Mantle in 2016 as The Sound of Things […]
Cassava Republic Warns Against the Deletion of Local Publishing Houses
A few days ago, publishers Cassava Republic published on their site a trend in which Nigerian media de-prioritize the work of local publishing houses. Titled “Nigerian Media and the Deletion of Local Publishing Houses,” the piece cites instances where book editions by local publishers are unnamed, or their book covers unused, when most media sources […]
Cassava Republic Wins London Book Fair’s 2018 Inclusivity in Publishing International Excellence Award
Cassava Republic has been awarded the Inclusivity in Publishing Award at the 2018 London Book Fair’s International Excellence Awards. The awards are sponsored by Hytex and held in association with the Publishers Association. The London Book Fair—held this year from 10-12 April, 2018—is an annual gathering of publishers, writers, editors, literary agents, booksellers, journalists, and every other group within the […]
Review | Cassava Republic’s “She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak” | Cisi Eze
Publication Date: TBA. Publisher: Cassava Republic Press. Number of Pages: 342. *** Art is most beautiful when we find pieces of ourselves in it, when it resonates with our realities or what we want our realities to be. She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak transcends beautiful. This history-making opus will shake the tables […]
Cassava Republic Unveils Anthology Cover for “She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak”
Cassava Republic has unveiled the cover for the forthcoming anthology, She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak. The anthology, to be released on 24 April of this year, collects 25 first-hand accounts that challenge stereotypes about being lesbian, bisexual and trans women in Nigeria. In an email to Brittle Paper, Cassava Republic’s communications and […]
WATCH | Haruna Ayesha Attah Announces New Novel Set During the Slave Trade in Ghana
Haruna Ayesha Attah is the author of two novels: the Commonwealth Prize-shortlisted Harmattan Rain (2009) and the Kwani? Manuscript Contest-nominated Saturday’s Shadows (2015). Ayesha is a 2014 Africa Centre Artists in Residency Award Laureate and Instituto Sacatar Fellow. In 2016, she won the Miles Morland Scholarship to write a nonfiction book about kolanuts. Her third novel, The Hundred Wells […]
Olumide Popoola’s When We Speak of Nothing is an Ode to Queer Black Life
Olumide Popoola recently joined Cassava Republic‘s impressive list of writers. This places her in fine company—with the likes of Sarah L. Manyika, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Nnedi Okorafor, Elnathan John, and Yemisi Aribisala. On July 3, Cassava Republic published her debut novel, When We Speak of Nothing. Popoola, a London-based Nigerian-German writer, presents a story that […]
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