Book Review – The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu
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
Tagged: Fiction
Book Review: Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty by Alain Mabanckou
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
The Stranger by Rabi’atu Yakubu
It happened when I was fifteen-years old. I had been watching a football match on the television with my uncle, Baba Hassan when a young boy suddenly appeared from nowhere…More
Freedom’s March
They were coming for her soon. This, she knew because her mother had told her so. Moreso, her mother had gone the same way. ‘You must march at dawn, Koko.…More
It Wasn’t A Dream
The sun stretched this morning, a pale gold offering. I saw it through the tall grasses between my window and the river. It stretched but didn’t rise. This morning, I…More
Book Review: Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
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 Review: Blackass by Igoni Barrett
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 Review: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
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 Review: The Teacher, The Pianist and The Seamstress by Ogenna Ojukwu
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
Becoming Day by Olubunmi Familoni
BECOMING DAY “Carry your playing outside.” I’m playing with Babi, with her yellow hair. Daddy brought her for me. “I brought you Babi;” as if it was a person, the…More