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Tomorrow I Become a Woman
With Aiwanose Odafen’s “Tomorrow I Become a Woman,” The Modern Feminist Nigerian Novel Continues To Mature

Aiwanose Odafen’s novel has entered popular feminist discourse, calling our attention once again to the…

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Nnamdi Ehirim’s “Prince of Monkeys” Captures the Trauma of a Generation

The mention of ‘80s and ‘90s music and film, among other cultural zeitgeist, gives Nnamdi…

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Poet Scorned: A Review of Dami Ajayi’s “Affection and other Accidents”

Sometimes, poets use their poems as a glimpse into their personal lives, but this collection…

What is Yet Unsaid about Eloghosa Osunde and Her Novel, “Vagabonds!”

To people like herself, Eloghosa Osunde’s Vagabonds! is a letter of kinship. It speaks to…

The Orientations of the Street in Jindu Enugbe’s “Street OT”

…Enugbe leads with great finesse, with so much awareness, giving us sweeping and funny narratives,…

Jennifer Makumbi’s “A Girl is a Body of Water” is a New Height for the African Coming-of-Age Novel

The lives of the characters are subject to the precolonial Ugandan history which foreshadows their…

Caleb Nelson’s Open Water: Literature melds Music and Photography

In the summer of 2019, as what later became Caleb Nelson’s Open Water was produced,…

Afrocritik’s 20 Remarkable African Essays of 2021

By Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera There is a widely-held consensus that 2021 is a great year…

Afrocritik’s 25 Notable African Books of 2021

By Joshua Chizoma 2021 is, without doubt, a great year for African writers and writings.…

“Rummaging for Omens”: A Review of Nneoma Otuegbe’s book of poetry

Rummaging for Omens is a book of poetry as much as it is a book…