Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction

Tag Archives: Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction

Features, Lit Scene, News January 31, 2020

The AfroAnthology Series Calls for Creative Nonfiction Submissions for Third Anthology

The AfroAnthology Series is curated by the Nigerian writer Basit Jamiu. It is, so far, the only platform dedicated solely to promoting creative nonfiction in Africa. Founded in 2016, the series has produced the widely acclaimed Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction, guest edited by the Nigerians Emmanuel Dairo and Uzoma Ihejirika, with an […]

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 […]

The Self-obsessed Nonfiction of Millennials: Thoughts on Relevance | Chinaecherem Ọbọọ

“Genre-bending”: that was the word used by the organisers to describe Kola Tubosun’s winning entry for the 2018 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship, a biographical work on Wole Soyinka. The book, as proposed, documents the iconic writer’s love for nature, his efforts at restoring natural habitats, “all the while paying tribute to the great body of […]

The 2018 Brittle Paper Awards: The Winners

The Brittle Paper Awards is our way of recognizing the finest, original pieces of literature by Africans available online for free. We began it in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary. The $1,100 cash prize is spread across five categories which reflect our efforts to capture the range and variations of literary dialogue on the continent: the Brittle Paper Award […]

The 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award: Meet the 8 Finalists

The shortlists for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in October. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by Africans published online. The $1,100 prize is split across five categories: the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction ($200), the Brittle Paper Award for Poetry ($200), the Brittle Paper Award for Creative Nonfiction ($200), the Brittle Paper Award […]

The 2018 Brittle Paper Award for Creative Nonfiction: Meet the 8 Finalists

The 2018 Brittle Paper Awards: Announcing The 5 Shortlists

Update: For failure to attribute an original source, the Caine Prize, in September 2019, removed Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s “All Our Lives” from its 2019 shortlist, while Short Story Day Africa released a statement on intertextuality. Because we believe it to have resulted from inexperience rather than intentional withholding, we did not withdraw it from our […]

GoFundMe | Please Donate to Help Get Selves Nonfiction Anthology into Print

The team behind the remarkable e-anthology, Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction, led by its curator, Basit Jamiu, have launched an ambitious campaign to get the anthology into print. Selves, published by us, is the first in the Afro Anthology Series. Co-edited by Emmanuel Dairo, nonfiction editor at Praxis, and Uzoma Ihejirika, former writer at Bakwa, Selves is introduced by Brittle […]