The Kenyan state’s war against traditional brews is driven by a colonial mentality.
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In his new book, Carl Death weighs up climate policies in African countries with each country’s stories and films about climate change.
From angry spirits and parallel universes to alien abductions and epic folklore, African writers are offering fresh new horizons for the world’s science fiction landscape.
The Road to the Village is the acclaimed Nigerian author’s third novel and is about ‘a young man seeking redemption in a country on fire’.
The new novel by Nigerian icon Wole Soyinka is at once satire, political thriller and tragedy. It is the work of a great writer that marks the destruction of postcolonial reason.
Crime fiction is the second most popular literary genre in Africa after romance. A reading of Kenyan author Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ’s Black Star Nairobi reveals how it has disrupted the genre.
African academics draw up a reading list that speaks to the vibrancy of contemporary as well as older African literature.
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Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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