Nigeria’s Christian population grew by 25% to 93 million from 2010 to 2020. Today’s novels reflect its social complexity.
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The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.
A visit to a campus bookstore reveals layers of history about Nigeria.
In his new book, Carl Death weighs up climate policies in African countries with each country’s stories and films about climate change.
This was a remarkable event because it defied the tired cliché that Africans do not read.
Seven queer African creative works you should know about, from short stories to music videos.
Dream Count rewards the attentive reader who is willing to let the book slowly add layers of meaning.
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’.
She reveals a range of African experiences: from traders to martial arts champions, visa overstayers to heart surgeons.
Digital platforms have birthed a new school of writers and activists in Nigeria and Kenya.
A Spell of Good Things powerfully explores polygamy, patriarchy, political corruption and poverty.
In less than a year the newsletter has become important and influential, offering a new way of appreciating African photography.
With over 200 publications to his name, his three most recent books give a sense of why he is so famous as a historian.
BringBackOurGirls led to a global outcry, but it simplified a complex history that is best understood through survivor accounts.
From Blood Sisters to Half of a Yellow Sun, he was loved for his TV series and films as well as his novel Burma Boy.
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.
The public politics of African writers has been in the spotlight again due to the bitter disagreement between Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Akwaeke Emezi over transgender issues.
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Lecturer, University of Nigeria
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Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds
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Professor of English Studies, University of South Africa
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Lecturer, School of Languages and Literatures, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Humanity, Social Sciences, and Theology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of English Literature, Université de Liège