Every serious fiction writer, published or unpublished, has a pile of horror stories about trying to get his or her work out into the…
Following Basil Davidson’s passing, Ama Biney salutes the historian’s work as a European scholar who was not blighted by ‘a Eurocentric, prejudiced paradigm’ in…
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An ordinary house with extraordinary occupants: Review of ‘A House in Zambia: Recollections of the ANC and Oxfam at 250 Zambezi Road, Lusaka, 1967-97’
Rober Molteno reviews ‘A House in Zambia: Recollections of the ANC and Oxfam at 250 Zambezi Road, Lusaka, 1967-97’, edited by Robin Palmer: a…
’I aim to show how the drug trade affects somebody not involved in it, somebody who – like me – has never seen a…
My father brought back from England an extraordinary collection of books. He came to London [from Nigeria] to train as a lawyer and my mother…
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political. Literature is a powerful craft, so we have an obligation to take…
(“How Things Fall Apart became the way things fell together” – Aeron Bady). Written by Odimegwu Onwumere African Writers Series (AWS) was founded in…
’There’s so much constantly to react to in the world in which we live, and in a country like South Africa, that can become…
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Aporia: Ngugi’s Fatalistic Logic of the Unassailable Position of Indigenous Languages in African Literature
The question of language choice in African literature has caused significant ripples in the pool of literary criticism. The genesis of this discourse dates…
’The strongest thing I believe about fiction is that it requires two to come forward. It’s a very deep form of play’ The entire…