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• From Okey Ndibe to Sarah Lotz: Six New Releases for 2014

  

  Happy New Year!!!! It's only a few days into 2014 and already there are six new releases for the first five months of the year to look forward to. That's... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• African Literature in 2013

  

  2013 has been another great year for African literature, and since my reading this year was pretty awful, I decided instead to look back at the year - new... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bookshy Turns Two Today: a Few Highlights from Year 2

  

  It's been pretty quite here for the last month or so - as I'm trying to finish up my thesis, which really feels like it will never end (but my family and friend... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• GAMBIT: Newer African Writing

  

  The Mantle, an online forum 'for the next generation of critics and leaders to be heard' is looking for help to publish Gambit: Newer African Writing. Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Judging a Book by Its Cover: Nnedi Okorafor's 'Lagoon' Designed by Joey Hi-Fi

  

  Back in April I wrote that Nnedi Okorafor, author of Zahrah the Windseeker, Who Fears Death and Akata Witch next novel Lagoon would be published March 2014 -... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 2013 Golden Baobab Prizes Shortlist Announced

  

  Happy to announce that the 2013 Golden Baobab Shortlist has been ... announced. The judges - Bernardine Evaristo, Esi-Sutherland-Addy, Nonikiwe Mashologu,... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 53 Years of Nigerian Literature: Lagos Through Fiction

  

  www.foto-j.com "The Tejuosho bus stop is a stone’s throw from where I stand. It is a tangle of traffic – mostly danfos and molues – that one might be tempted... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Review: African Roar 2013 Edited by Emmanuel Sigauke

  

  African Roar 2013 is the fourth Anthology from StoryTime, which was first published in 2010. It has been described as 'a multi-genre annual anthology of... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Weekend in Brighton: Books, Beach and ... Ping Pong

  

  A couple of weeks ago I decided enough was enough. I had been working in Brighton for about six weeks, but due to commuting from London all I had seen was the... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 53 Years of Nigerian Literature: Books Based on/Inspired by the Nigerian Civil...

  

  Biafran Refugee Camp http://www.nairaland.com/582396/biafra-nigerian-civil-war-pictures Believing I would be able to get tickets to Half of a Yellow Sun at the... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 53 Years of Nigerian Literature

  

  Nigerian independence celebrations in October 1960. Photograph: Express Newspapers/Getty Images Today Nigeria turns 53 and it has been quite an interesting 365... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Another New Release: SL Grey's "The New Girl"

  

  Yes, there's another new release to look forward to this year - and I definitely want to get my hands on this one. It's by SL Grey, a collaboration between two... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction by Makhosazana Xaba, Edited by Karen...

  

  Queer Africa is a collection of charged, tangled, tender, unapologetic, funny, bruising and brilliant stories about the many ways in which we love each other... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• "Silence is a Woman" and "The Vagina Monologues": Storymoja Hay Festival 2013...

  

  At the beginning of this week I mentioned that the Storymoja Hay Festival was taking place 19-22 of September in Nairobi. As I'm still lusting over the Programm... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Another New Release: Nadifa Mohamed's "The Orchard of Lost Souls"

  

  ... and there's more!!!! So this one's already out - was released August 15th - but it's still a new release. This time it's The Orchard of Lost Souls by... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 2013 Golden Baobab Prizes Longlist Announced

  

  Back in June I mentioned that the Golden Baobab Prize was calling all African Writers to submit to their prize for Children's Literature. Well, on August 30th,... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Storymoja Hay Festival Nairobi

  

  Storymoja Hay Festival, Nairobi's literary festival is back. So if you're in Nairobi between September 19-22 and are attending it, can I just say right now... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bank Holiday Special: Review of "A Season in the Congo"

  

  This is something different, but over the weekend, my mum, sister and I went to see the final day of A Season in the Congo by Aimé Césaire at the Young Vic. Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Idris Elba to Star in Uzodinma Iweala’s "Beasts of No Nation"

  

  Exciting news!!! Another book being turned into a film. This time it's Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel Beasts of No Nation about a young boy, Agu, in an unnamed... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Another New Release: "Maid in SA: 30 Ways to Leave Your Madam" by Zukiswa Wanner

  

  The new releases just keep on coming. This time from South African author Zukiswa Wanner. Confession! My research is on domestic workers in Nigeria, so obviousl... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE