As the books world mulls over the real identity of an acclaimed new author, Arifa Akbar wonders what drives writers to hide behind a…
Funding problems and shifting global tastes are prompting the continent’s writers to forge African collaborations again Sir Mohinder Dhillon worked for more than 30…
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Acquisition Highlights: The ASC library has recently purchased the online edition of theHeinemann African Writers Series (AWS)
Heinemann has published the key texts in modern African literature for forty years. The online edition does not include all the works that came…
By Dambisa Moyo Take a walk in downtown Lagos and you’ll see bustling shopping malls and streets populated not just by domestic restaurant chains…
Ben Okri, the Booker Prize winning author, has accused his editor of “exaggerating his own importance” after he claimed to have rewritten some of…
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AMINATA SOW FALL, ECRIVAINE : « Que les acteurs politiques sachent que le pays ne leur appartient pas »
Par Awa DABO, Mously NDIAYE (Stagiaires) | Le populaire C’est dans son bureau niché dans un immeuble aux Hlm Fass Paillotes que nous a…
’There is a tendency for poets and painters in the Arab world to be politically engaged’ Maya Jaggi Adonis … the Syrian-born poet, critic…
By CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Lagos, Nigeria ON New Year’s Day, in my ancestral hometown of Abba in Anambra State in eastern Nigeria, my family…
Juliet Torome NAIROBI – The news that Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artifacts that one of its researchers took from Peru…
By David Rubenstein To: Capitalists of the World From: Adam Smith What has become of my beloved capitalism? Countries teeter, protests rage, unemployed multiply,…