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Features, News 2014/12/04

Ben Okri’s Rocket-Sex Scene Wins Him Bad Sex Award!

I’m just so delighted that an African author has finally won the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award. It’s been a long time coming. After all, Africa is the continent of awful descriptions of sex scenes in novels. The UK-based Nigerian author, Ben Okri, wins the award for the description of a sex scene in […]

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Features 2019/04/18

Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 1: Jamila Osman & Selina Nwulu

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In 2018, Brittle Paper introduced a Brunel Prize Poems Review series, starting with poems on that year’s shortlist. The series […]

Features 2019/04/17

Aminatta Forna’s Happiness Is a Finalist for the 2019 Ondaatje Prize

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Aminatta Forna’s fourth novel and fifth book Happiness is one of the six finalists for the 2019 Ondaatje Prize. The announcement was […]

Features 2019/04/17

Nnedi Okorafor Is Creating a TV Series Company for Africanfuturist Stories

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Nnedi Okorafor is creating a TV series company for Africanfuturist stories. The multi-awarded novelist revealed this on Facebook via a […]

Features 2019/04/17

Felaland | Pei Koroye | Fiction

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  you want to know if i fucked him, don’t you? don’t lie, i know what you journalist types are […]

Features 2019/04/17

RadioBook Rwanda | Huza Press Releases Hybrid Books Combining Words, Art, & Sound

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Last May, we brought news of Huza Press’ new hybrid books imprint RadioBook Rwanda, a collaborative project with Kenya’s Kwani? and UK’s No Bindings […]

Features 2019/04/16

On the Celebration and Endurance of Women: In Conversation with Sisonke Msimang, Winner of the Brittle Paper Award for Essays & Think Pieces

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Sisonke Msimang is the author of Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home (2017) and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela […]

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