Thirteen-year-old Marley Dias, who two years ago famously launched a book drive to provide young black girls with books featuring main characters who looked…
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For many years, Amos Tutuola, the Nigerian author who was born in 1920 and died in 1997, was despised, ridiculed and made to appear…
Devisch, Rene. 2017. Body and Affect in the Intercultural Encounter. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa / Leiden: African Studies Centre. ISBN-10: 9956-764-01-9; ISBN-13: 978-9956-764-01-3. xvii +…
Literary fiction in crisis as sale drop dramatically, Arts Council England reports
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Alice O’Keeffe In our digital age, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel prize is a reminder that it is still novels that ask the biggest questions ‘Serious…
Doreen Baingana advises young people who want to venture into creative writing to ‘read, read, read. Write for yourself. Let yourself fail. Start again’…
Deceptive Intelligence: CNN breaks story on Slave Trade in Libya; French Government voices concern for African Migrants
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A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim was bracing for a backlash when he published his provocative debut novel, “Season of Crimson Blossoms,” in Nigeria two years ago.…
Originally founded in Chicago as Third World Press in 1967, the Third World Press Foundation has been publishing African-American literature under the direction of…
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