Adjei Agyei-BAAh discusses how haiku is taking root in Africa.
A gold miner puts down his tools and picks up a gun.
“We see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves…”
—Mahershala Ali, 2017 SAG Awards Acceptance Speech
From behind the walls, always, I could smell it, women lighting fires for cooking and the aroma of toasting millet rose with the smoke.
I once knew a woman like these three girls,” said Kamanga, “who think they are too good for some men.
Agualusa’s novel is an episodic, poetic and raw treatment of Angolan independence.
Cary Fukunaga’s acclaimed Netflix feature risks reinforcing simplistic views of children and conflict in Africa, writes Rebecca Latham.
Teju Cole’s latest novel explores one man’s conflicted sense of home and belonging through the psychogeography of Lagos.
“You are travelling from Port Harcourt to Yenagoa. Everybody knows the best place to board a cheap bus is at Mile One Bus Park, right under the bridge… Loaded shopping ...
Two journeys on foot, towards separate borders in West Africa.
This had not been his first marriage. He had been tied for seemingly interminable years to a shrew whose very existence had carved premature lines on his handsome face. Her ...
It’s an exciting time for African science fiction, marked most recently by the release of StoryTime’s ‘AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers’, a short story collection edited by Zimbabwean writer ...
Recently, we asked our readers to send in a short review of their favourite book of 2012. We’re pleased to announce that our favourite review was by Leah ...
What’s your favourite book this year? Tell us about it in under 250 words.
We’ll compile a handful of our selections in a Litro Online feature, and ...
The title of Taiye Selasi’s debut short story is as blunt as it is ironic, proclaiming bold content while quietly mocking Western anthropological theses of old. I first came upon ...
There’s a scene early on in Claire Denis’ tenth film in which a child soldier fingers a cheap-looking gold lighter and refers to it as “just white material”. What does ...
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How much do you know about Africa? We tend to speak of it as though it’s one giant, inscrutable territory, and yet Africa contains 54 different countries, all with different ...
The herd wakes me, hungry again and baying for grass, green and juicy. They huddle round the basher, lowing and groaning. Their rolling backsides butt up against the bent branches. ...
Harare was always a plum to me, a gorgeous memory; blue-black, full and ripe, luxurious and sweet to the tongue. I recall a veranda fringed city, snug with waiters, sunk ...
