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Features, Lit Scene, News 2019/04/29

Oyinkan Braithwaite and Diana Evans’ Shortlisting for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction Is the First Time Two Africans Are Finalists

Oyinkan Braithwaite’s crime thriller My Sister, the Serial Killer and Diana Evans’ exploration of midlife crisis Ordinary People have been shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Both are Nigerian, with Evans half-British. While their longlisting back in March brought the number of African nominees for the 27-year-old prize—formerly known as the Orange Prize for Fiction […]

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Contact Us, Features, Fiction, Fiction - Anthology, Lit Scene, News, Nonfiction, Nonfiction - Scholarly 2019/03/22

African Literary Digest: 101 Notable Pieces of 2018

It was inevitable: compiling a list as monstrous as this would consume time, cause a delay. But here we are. 2018 came with its own firsts and highs. A new major publishing house came on board: The Indigo Press, founded by the distinguished Zimbabwean editor and critic Ellah Allfrey. A new major magazine: Kabaka, dedicated to publishing queer-centered […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2019/03/04

Oyinkan Braithwaite, Diana Evans, Akwaeke Emezi Longlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2019/01/27

Attend Narrative Landscape Press and Page & Palette’s Abuja Book Events for Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer

Publishing company Narrative Landscape Press and book promoter Page & Palette will be organizing two events around Oyinkan Braithwaite’s hot new novel My Sister, the Serial Killer in Abuja. The novel is published in Nigeria by Narrative Landscape Press. The events—a book reading and signing at The Cafe NG on February 1 and a Brunch and […]

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Features, Stories and Poems 2018/11/15

Excerpt #2 | My Sister, The Serial Killer | by Oyinkan Braithwaite

FATHER   Ayoola inherited the knife from him (and by “inherited” I mean she took it from his possessions before his body was cold in the ground). It made sense that she would take it—it was the thing he was most proud of. He kept it sheathed and locked in a drawer, but he would […]

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Features 2019/06/25

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey & Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Join the Royal Society of Literature as Honourary Fellows

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Caine Prize chair Ellah Wakatama Allfrey and Cassava Republic Press co-founder Bibi Bakare-Yusuf have been inducted into the UK’s Royal […]

Features 2019/06/24

The Inaugural Africa Writes – Bristol Festival, an Offshoot of Africa Writes in London, Set for Seven Days of Performances, Panels, Launches & Workshops

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In 2017, Africa Writes, the UK’s biggest festival celebrating African literature, moved beyond London for the first time, organizing pop-up […]

Features 2019/06/24

Earn €1,500 at Goethe-Institut’s U-40 Writers’ Residencies in Burkina Faso | How to Apply

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The Goethe-Institut/Bureau de liaison in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, has called for applications to its new 2019/2020 residencies […]

Features 2019/06/21

Molara Ogundipe, Poet, Editor, & Founder of the Stiwanist Movement in Feminism, Passes on at 78

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The Nigerian professor, poet, critic, editor, activist and leading feminist thinker Molara Ogundipe has passed on at 78. She died […]

Features 2019/06/21

Namwali Serpell on Using a Swarm of Mosquitoes as Narrator in Her New Novel, The Old Drift

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Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift has been a hit with critics. Hailed as the Great Zambian Novel and […]

Features 2019/06/19

Nnedi Okorafor’s Broken Places & Outer Spaces, Her 15th Book in 14 Years and First of Nonfiction, Now Available

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Nnedi Okorafor’s memoir, Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected, was published yesterday, 18 June, by Simon […]

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