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Book: Once Upon Our ChildhoodAuthor: Lara Brown Lara Brown’s debut novel Once Upon Our Childhood is a coming-of-age story of four teenage girls, the dynamics of their friendship and the…More
L-R, Erica Sugo Anyadike, Rémy Ngamije, Chikodili Emelumadu, Jowhor Ile, and Irenosen Okojie In 2019, reading Lesley Nneka Arimah’s Caine Prize winning story, Skinned, revolutionized the way I thought about fiction, especially “African” fiction. Since then, I had found myself…More
London is almost replete with cavaliers and learned men but twenty-two-year-old Londoner Geoffrey Tempest is atypical of the learned. Filled with paranoia, the squeak of the door latch, the knock…More
Book: My Sister the Serial Killer Author: Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister the Serial Killer, a debut dark thriller, written by Oyinkan Braithwaite, tells of the lives and relationship between two…More
Book: The Hairdress of Harare Author: Tendai Huchu Hair is life. Vimbai understands this, it is why when customers come into the Khumalo Hair and Beauty Treatment salon and plop…More
Book: Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty Book Author: Alain Mabanckou Michel is a 10 year old carefree sweetheart who simply wants to grow up in peace, eat his favourite beans and beef…More
Book: KINTU Author: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Kintu is the debut novel of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and it tells the complicated and yet so enthralling tale of Kintu Kidda, Ppookino (governor) of…More
Book: BLACKASS Author: Igoni Barrett Furo Wariboko, the protagonist in Igoni Barrett’s Kafkaesque dark satirical comedy wakes up and discovers that ‘dreams can lose their way and turn up on the wrong…More
Book: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth Author: Warsan Shire ‘I don’t know when love became elusive. What I know is: no one I know has it’. If this…More
Book: The Teacher, The Pianist and The Seamstress Author: Ogenna Ojukwu With his debut novel, Ogenna Ojukwu leads the reader through the complicated life of Onyeka; teacher and vice-principal hopeful,…More