The pace of modern African literature is faster, tone and style sexier and more defiant than the great generation of Independence writers. Hitherto taboo…
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I WASN’T always a lawyer or a novelist, and I’ve had my share of hard, dead-end jobs. I earned my first steady paycheck watering…
Every serious fiction writer, published or unpublished, has a pile of horror stories about trying to get his or her work out into the…
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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…