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Features, News July 28, 2020

Africanfuturist Comic Wins 2020 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album-Reprint

Nnedi Okorafor is the winner of the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album (Reprint) for her Africanfuturist comic book about alien immigrants on earth titled LaGuardia. Okorafor emerged winner from a nominee list of six. She shares the award with illustrators Tana Ford and James Devlin. First awarded in 1988, the Eisner Award, commonly […]

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Features August 7, 2020

Tell Me | Oreva-Oghene Isaac Oyibojabor | Poetry

Tell Me _ Oreva-Oghene Isaac Oyibojabor _ Fiction (1)

  I slipped through today. When it gets hard, remind me it’s not suicidal to live. Tell me of hope, […]

Features August 7, 2020

Broken | Gerald Onyebuchi | Fiction

Broken _ Gerald Onyebuchi _ Fiction (1)

In the cool of the evening you met him. At a pub, a corner all by himself, gulping down shots […]

Features August 7, 2020

Nigerian Software Engineer Invents New Igbo Writing System

Nigerian Software Engineer Invents New Igbo Writing System

Lotanna Igwe-Odunze is a software engineer, artist and writer who developed a new system for Igbo writing called the Ńdébé […]

Features August 7, 2020

All About Nsah Mala’s Cameroonian Children’s Book Coming Out in Spring 2021

Nsah Mala's children's book

A US publishing house for children’s literature POW! Kids Books has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Africa, to Cameroonian poet and […]

Features August 6, 2020

The Dissolving Center of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart? — Watch Episode 4 of Prof. Ato Quayson’s Vlog

Episode 4 of Prof. Ato Quayson's Vlog

The fourth episode of Professor Ato Quayson’s vlog Critic.Reading.Writing is up! In this week’s episode, the Professor dives into the […]

Features August 5, 2020

Namwali Serpell to Join Harvard English Department as Full Professor

Namwali serpell harvard university

  Namwali Serpell announced on Twitter this week that she will be joining the Harvard English Department as Full Professor […]

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