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Features, Lit Scene, News 2017/12/12

Ayobami Adebayo Honoured at The Future Awards, Alongside WizKid, Davido and Anthony Joshua

Ayobami Adebayo, author of the Baileys Prize-shortlisted novel Stay with Me, has been honoured at the 2017 The Future Awards, receiving The Future Awards Africa Prize for Arts and Culture. Also honoured at the Lagos ceremony were: Davido, who received The Future Awards Africa Prize for Music; Anthony Joshua, who received The Future Awards Africa Prize […]

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I hold a doctorate in English from Duke University and recently joined the Marquette University English faculty as an Assistant Professor. I love teaching African fiction and contemporary British novels. Brittle Paper is the virtual space/station where I play and experiment with ideas on how to reinvent African fiction and literary culture.

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Features 2018/05/21

What Do You Say When You’re Leaving? | Sochi Azuh | Poetry

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  You liked the tease of an open door drawing you in To the rumour of something less complicated than […]

Features 2018/05/21

This Essay Collection is a South Africa-Inspired Feminist Anthem for All Women

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In the era of #metoo and #timesup, we are, more than ever before, in need of writing that deepens our […]

Features 2018/05/21

WATCH | Feyisayo Anjorin’s Novel, Kasali’s Africa, Has Book Trailers

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Feyisayo Anjorin’s new novel Kasali’s Africa has a book trailer. A book trailer does what a film trailer does: offer […]

Features 2018/05/17

Writing in Migration | Photos from the Festival of African Writers in Berlin

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Last month, the Nigerian-German novelist Olumide Popoola, author of When We Speak of Nothing, curated a star-studded festival of African writers in […]

Features 2018/05/17

In Poetry: Prizes and Politics | Ebenezer Agu

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Right after the Brunel International African Poetry Prize released its 2018 shortlist, a friend walked into my Facebook inbox to […]

Features 2018/05/16

EVENT | Poets In Nigeria 2018 NSPP Awards Ceremony at Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu

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Poets in Nigeria (PIN), which runs the Nigerian Students’ Poetry Prize (NSPP), will be holding its 2018 Awards Ceremony at […]

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