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Head of Zeus, part of Bloomsbury Publishing, have announced the launch of the Apollo Africa list, a new home for 100 titles from the historic Heinemann African Writers Series.

Edmonton author Premee Mohamed is the EPLs 2024 writer-in-residence, plus new work from Shawna Lemay, and Canada Reads Jessica Johns.

The cause of the fire hasn’t been determined.

Set in a fictional locale in Barbados, The Secrets of Catspraddle Village (Black Coral Publishing) by Callie Browning investigates the mysterious, multifaceted lives of its inhabitants, chronicling events that involve

Recently I strayed upon Lewis Nkosi’s very thought-provoking views on African literature. The South African writer and academic has inspired and inspiring thoughts that led me to want to randomly revisit observations made by writers and scholars on aspects of African Literature and African writers. “The African novel in the European languages is sometimes damned […]

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: Gods Arent Necessarily Nice: A Conversation with Premee Mohamed by Arley Sorg

A series of seven movies themed on Vietnamese soldiers will be screened during a film week that will take place from December 18-21.

All the demented facets of Nigerian life today, from brazen kidnappings and robberies to rampant prostitution and political heists, are like the many wonderful tales of Cyprian Odiatu Duaka (COD) Ekwensi, who died on November 4, 2007. Cyprian Ekwensi lived a charmed life as a pathfinder in the annals of African literature and it is […]

Share CYPRIAN Ekwensi’s fictional prose, Burning Grass, vividly x-rays the kings of the jungle. I am using the ‘Fulani’ here as the approximation of Nigeria’s far north – because he is the consequential being there. And, I think anyone who fights him or wants to fight him or is being fought by him should read the history of his assumed ancestors, the Hyksos (Shepherd Kings) of Egypt, and then read Ekwensi. The Burning Grass is an evocative exhibition of what disease and deceit, dr...