Books

Let Us Conspire and Other Stories
“Let Us Conspire and Other Stories” Investigates Marginal Identities Amidst Loss and Grief

From the experimental to the conventional, with preoccupations at once personal and political, universal and…

The Comedian’s Diary
“The Comedian’s Diary” Review: Obase-Sam Ikoi’s Debut Novel Challenges Traditional Forms of the Novel in Its Portrait of Addiction

The Comedian’s Diary is a sobering portrait of the capability of community in the face…

African Political Fiction
Notable African Political Fiction of the Last Decade (Part II)

Some of these books tackle politics head-on; in others, its marginal effects play in the…

In Our Own Ways
Sisterhood and a Fractured Marriage: A Review of Yejide Kilanko’s “In Our Own Ways”

Although In Our Own Ways is ostensibly about class and a fractured marriage, the enduring…

escapist fiction
20 Notable Escapist African Fiction of the Last Ten Years

What we have here are some notable works of fiction that can transport one into…

Born at the End of the World
Love in a Time of Terror: A Review of Donica Merhazion’s “Born at the End of the World”

Inasmuch as Born at the End of the World is about love, it is also…

Nigerian Literature
The Endless Work of Culture Positioning: The Challenge for Nigerian Literature

We must not only question the failures of our literary space, but we must also…

Mubanga Kalimamukwento
In Conversation: Mubanga Kalimamukwento Talks “The Shipikisha Club” and Reclaiming the Place of Zambian Languages

“If, for generations, entire languages were flogged out of people so that English could be…

political novels
The Best 15 African Political Novels of the Last Decade

It is troubling that so little African fiction is confronting these issues with sufficient urgency.…

Pede Hollist
“Certainty Is the Prerogative of Those With the Power to Exclude and Reject”: Pede Hollist on Displacement, Diaspora, and the Stories We Carry

“I wanted a shorthand for expressing the fluidity and interparticipation of home and abroad in…