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Features, Lit Scene, News December 5, 2019

The 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Fiction: Meet The 5 Finalists

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The 5 Shortlists for The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in November. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by Africans published online. READ: The 2017 Brittle Paper Award for Fiction: Meet the Nominees READ: The 2018 Brittle Paper Award for Fiction: Meet the […]

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Features November 19, 2019

The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards: Announcing The 5 Shortlists

We are excited to announce The 5 Shortlists for the 2019 Brittle Paper Awards. Launched in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the annual Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of literary writing by Africans published online — writing that has prompted, enhanced, or defined conversations. The $1,100 cash prize is split across five categories: The […]

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Features April 25, 2016

Professor Banda | Keletso Mopai | Fiction

It was the second semester of my first year, having made my way through the first semester and passing all my first semester modules. My roommate and friend Ntokozo and I walked to Professor .M. Banda’s office after our Chem102 class to collect our first Chem102 test scripts. Professor M. Banda was a Congolese lecturer, […]

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Features December 5, 2019

BBC Apologises to Bernardine Evaristo Over Presenter’s “Another Author” Reference, Following Twitter Backlash

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Last night, the BBC was at the receiving end of a storm on Twitter when a presenter failed to name […]

Features December 5, 2019

The 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Fiction: Meet The 5 Finalists

BP Award for Fiction graph

The 5 Shortlists for The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in November. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, […]

Features December 5, 2019

The 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Essays & Think Pieces: Meet The 5 Finalists

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The 5 Shortlists for The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in November. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, […]

Features December 4, 2019

The Voices I Overcame To Write Silence Is My Mother Tongue | Sulaiman Addonia

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“Do you not want to ever see me again?” my mother said to me on the phone one day in […]

Features December 4, 2019

Video & Photos | Echezonachukwu Nduka’s Performance & Public Lecture on African Pianism at Gateway Playhouse, New Jersey

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The poet-pianist Echezonachukwu Nduka, author of the collection Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts (2018), has been offering a reinterpretation of African […]

Features December 1, 2019

Tejumola Olaniyan, Eminent Professor of English and African Cultural Studies, Dies at 60

Tejumola Olaniyan, eminent professor of English and African literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died of heart failure in Madison, […]