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• Another New Release for 2013: Lauren Beukes "The Shining Girls"

  

  UK Edition I'm currently reading Lauren Beukes debut novel Moxyland, which follows the lives of four people living in a futuristic Cape Town. So far it's an... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Q-zine Creative Writing Special Issue: African LGBTI Fiction and Poetry

  

  Last night I read this article, Queer Fiction from Africa Collected in New Magazine. After reading it, I knew I had to read the special issue by Q-zine - a... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Another New Release for 2013: Aminatta Forna's "The Hired Man"

  

  Another new release for 2013, and this one comes from Aminatta Forna, author of The Memory of Love. Her latest novel The Hired Man, will be published in the UK... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Meet ... Tendai Huchu

  

  The 'Meet' Series will be a chance for me to interview anyone I would love to meet that is involved with African literature. If I haven't said this already I... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Boats, Books ... and Sun: The Floating Bookshop

  

  This weekend while enjoying a rare sunny day (well warm for winter) on Broadway Market in Hackney, I found the most unique bookstore ever. And it was amazing!!! Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, SELF EXPRESSION, TRAVEL

• Book Review: Véronique Tadjo's "As The Crow Flies" (Translated by Wangũi Wa Goro)

  

  I had no idea where to begin with As The Crow Flies by Véronique Tadjo as I have very mixed feelings towards it. I'm going to be honest and say I'm not even sur... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Review: Precious Reuben's "Treasure of Mine"

  

  Just in time for Valentine's Day, is Precious Reuben's romance novel, Treasure of Mine. Stella has just returned to Lagos after many years in Canada to introduc... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 BOOKS

• Book Review: Amma Darko's "The Housemaid"

  

  "In Ghana, if you come into the world a she, acquire the habit of praying. And master it. Because you will need it, desperately, as old age pursues you, and... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Review: Bryony Rheam's "This September Sun"

  

  ... and so my love for Zimbabwean literature just keeps on growing. I absolutely enjoyed reading Bryony Rheam's debut novel This September Sun, and would like t... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The State of African Publishing: The Small Publishers' Catalogue 2013

  

  There's a special place in my heart for African publishers, and the work they do. Recently I came across The Small Publishers' Catalogue, 2013 which will be... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Review: Oyindamola Affinnih's "Two Gone ... Still Counting"

  

  There's a Yoruba myth which states that a baby who falls off her mothers back, while being carried, "would face the death of all men she marries until the eight... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New Year, New Readings

  

  With a new year usually comes resolutions, which I am sure for many book lovers includes new reading resolutions. Last year I was able to read quite a number... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Even More New Releases for 2013

  

  If 2013 wasn't going to be exciting enough with Americanah, as well as Ghana Must Go and Love is Power, or Something Like That, here are a few more books to loo... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The State of African Publishing: Parrésia Publishers

  

  Once in a while I like to showcase African publishers, and today I'm going to Nigeria. Parrésia is "interested in fiction of the highest quality by new authors... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Review: Ahmed Fagih's "Homeless Rats"

  

  Published in Arabic in 2000, with the English version released in 2011, Homeless Rats by Libyan author Ahmed Fagih in a nutshell is about a battle in the... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Judging a Book by Its Cover: 5 Wonderful Book Covers of 2012

  

  This is my alternative best of list. As I am one of those readers out there who actually judges a book by its cover (I have dedicated a whole tumblr page to jus... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Top 5 Books Read in 2012

  

  It's been another great year of African literature. Sefi Atta, Nadine Gordimer, Chuma Nwokolo, and Ahdaf Souief were some of the authors that returned with new... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Legend of Mami Wata

  

  “My people stand on the riverbank, a wonder-filled mixture of skin hues. Strange ashen men in white gowns, with bars of wood crossed topsy-turvy, chant inanitie... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Review: Eghosa Imasuen's "Fine Boys"

  

  I'm just going to come out and say it, I absolutely loved Fine Boys. This is Nigeria ... in the 90s told in three parts: Year One (January 1993 - March 1994),... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Meet .... Tolulope Popoola

  

  The 'Meet' Series will be a chance for me to interview authors, publishers, book cover designers (really anyone I would love to meet) that is involved with... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE