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Features, Lit Scene 2019/01/04

Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift, Hailed as the Great Zambian Novel, Is a Multigenerational Tale Blending History and Science Fiction

Quite a lot is happening ahead of the release of The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell’s debut novel. Justifiably so as she is one of our best prose stylists. Forthcoming on 26 March 2019 from Penguin Random House imprint Hogarth, the 576-page The Old Drift is set on the Zambezi River and tells the story of […]

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Features 2014/04/22

Shakira Mourns Gabriel Marquez and Shares Photo Taken with Him in Mexico

Gabriel “Gabo” Garcia Marques died a few days ago. What a loss! His 1967 classic, 100 Years of Solitude, is the definitive magic realist text. I remember reading the novel for the first time in the summer of 2011. It was such a sad and dreary summer. I lived through it only because I could […]

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Features 2019/03/26

Chimamanda Adichie at The 2018 Abantu Book Festival

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A few days ago, Adichie shared photos of her time at Abantu Book Festival on Facebook. On December 7, 2017, […]

Features 2019/03/26

Event | (Re)membering Africa: Women’s Narratives Conference at the University of Houston | 28-30 March

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On 28-30 March, the University of Houston will be hosting a conference themed “(Re)membering Africa: Women’s Narratives on the Continent […]

Features 2019/03/26

Everything White Tastes Like Milk | Bryan Joe Okwesili | Fiction

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I know you grew up on the streets, that you feel the streets made you, that you are now […]

Features 2019/03/25

Leila Aboulela’s New Novel, Bird Summons, Is Magic-infused and Folklore-inspired

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Leila Aboulela is one Africa’s most beloved storytellers. Her readers can’t get enough of her evocative writing and the memorable […]

Features 2019/03/25

Ten Poets Shortlisted for the 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize

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Ten poets have been shortlisted for the 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Among them are the Nigerian poets Inua […]

Features 2019/03/25

#PoetryTalk | Being a Poet Involves Crying Out About Injustice: Interview with Unoma Azuah

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Unoma Azuah teaches writing at the Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago. In 2011 she was listed as one of the […]