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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, Lit Scene, News September 21, 2018

Nnedi Okorafor Announces New Project Due in December, Set in the Universe of Binti and Lagoon

Fresh from her trending appearance at the Emmys with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martins, Nnedi Okorafor has announced yet another project due in December. She made the revelation on Twitter. In it, she returns to the universe of her acclaimed, popular Binti trilogy and her novella Lagoon. Focused on a pregnant Nigerian-American doctor, Future […]

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Features August 12, 2020

Nnedi Okorafor’s LaGuardia Wins 2020 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic

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Nigeria’s Nnedi Okorafor is on a roll! Barely two weeks since bagging an Eisner Award, Okarafor wins the coveted Hugo […]

Features August 12, 2020

Ugandan Novelist Jennifer Makumbi on All-Female Short Story Prize Longlist

Jennifer Makumbi on All-Female Short Story Prize Longlist

Celebrated Ugandan author Jennifer Makumbi is on the longlist of the 2020 Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut […]

Features August 11, 2020

Is Oedipus Rex a Form of Detective Fiction? — Watch Episode 5 of Prof. Ato Quayson’s Vlog

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The fifth episode of Professor Ato Quayson’s vlog Critic.Reading.Writing is up! As the literary vlog enters its fifth week, Quayson […]

Features August 11, 2020

Wole Soyinka Writes Letter of Solidarity for Detained Humanist Mubarak Bala

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Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has never hesitated to speak out in the face of injustice. He recently penned a letter […]

Features August 11, 2020

Kenyan Filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu and Ghanaian American Playwright Jocelyn Bioh Collaborating on a Disney+ Project

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Wanuri Kahiu will direct the Disney+ film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Once on This Island, reports Hollywood Reporter. Ghanaian-American […]

Features August 11, 2020

Treasure is a New Novella by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Calling all fans of My Sister, the Serial Killer! Oyinkan Braithwaite has a new novella out. Titled Treasure, the book […]