Reviewed by Lisa Clements At the risk of falling under criticism for being too reductive, the strain of hardship in contemporary and past African living in magical realism seems to be countered by three things: resilient courage, a faith in the familial aspect of close community, and a sense of […]
Book Reviews
Reviewed by Lisa Clements The Famished Road is the kind of journey that you wish to retake every few years, mimicking themes of reincarnation and echoing the “life imitating art” mantra. Its a completely immersive experience that invokes a reflective response from the reader, stirring the kind of wondrous allure […]
By Mazi Fred Chiagozie Nwonwu Reading the first chapters of Myne Whitman’s second novel “A Love Rekindled” was tedious for me. And for the life of me, I couldn’t fathom why. Myne’s sentences were beautiful in their simplicity and the characters few enough for me to remember without flipping pages […]
By Guest writer: Ekene Oboko On Tuesday 4th June, NoViolet Bulawayo paid a visit to London’s Southbank Centre to discuss her new novel, “We Need New Names”. The evening was led by the African Writers Trust’s very own Nii Parkes. Bulawayo introduced the audience to her book – a book […]
By Emmanuel Monychol I am not a critical evaluator of creative works, but I am moved to write something about Lillian Aujo’s fine work, beginning with her poem, The Eye of Poetry. If Aujo’s poem has left me with a sense of mixed excitement, her short story, “Getting Somewhere,” has […]
Daughters Who Walk This Path is Yejide Kilanko’s debut novel, published by Penguin, Canada, April 2012. The US edition published by Pintail Books (Penguin US) January 2013. “Spirited, intelligent Morayo grows up surrounded by school friends and a busy family in modern-day Ibadan, Nigeria. An adoring little sister, her traditional […]
African Writers Trust is pleased to announce the first e-book by our nascent publishing division, African Writers Press: The Essential Handbook for African Creative Writers, by Goretti Kyomuhendo. Featuring also a foreword by Professor Arthur Shatto Gakwandi, Makerere University, Uganda; and an introduction by Michael Cawood Green, Northumbria University, Great […]
Reviewed by Jennifer Makumbi Adichie’s collection of short stories focuses majorly on women’s experiences – how being a woman shapes the world around them and how it impacts their lives. The stories are set in both Adichie’s native Nigeria, especially Nsukka University, and her adopted home in the United States […]
By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Looking for Transwonderland, written by Noo Saro-Wiwa, is a rollercoaster journey through Nigeria’s cities and regions which, at the same time, cleverly reveals Nigeria’s diverse and complex ethno-geographical identities and personalities. At times, it feels like walking through West African history, especially the period when West African […]
Article written by Leila Aboulela Until I was nineteen, my family and I lived in a villa on Street 7, in the New Extension of Khartoum not far from the airport. For a long, steady time, I walked on the same tiles, slept out on a balcony that overlooked the […]