A deep, incisive look at an instant classic from 2021 asks questions about the origins of a genre that is currently enjoying a fast rise among...
Our reviewer returns after a brief pause, and hits the floor running with a close, incisive look at an incredibly important book. By Akumbu Uche Many...
As the awards and nominations keep piling up for fan-favorite writer Nnedi Okorafor, four of her books have been announced as finalists for the prestigious Locus...
A look at the new poetry collection ‘The Enablers’ reveals a work that is at once layered in a most subtle way, as well as powerfully...
TJ Benson’s first book, a collection of short speculative fiction called ‘We Won’t Fade Into Darkness’ (Parresia, 2018), crept into readers’ heads about four years ago....
This week, Akumbu Uche takes a good look at the critically-acclaimed, Pulitzer-winning book written by Hisham Matar. By Akumbu Uche In 1990, Jaballa Matar, a Libyan...
We take a good look at ‘An Island’, the first novel from Karen Jennings, published by Masobe Books, and discover light and darkness in some of...
Wouldn’t you just love to be the winner of The Booker Prize or the Nigerian Prize for Literature? It starts with “not giving up!” By Nathaniel...
By Akumbu Uche I don’t come across contemporary African YA novels that often. I can’t speak on whether it’s the supply or the demand that’s in...
Many believe that the lines between prose fiction writers and poets are sometimes blurred with time. But how true is this? By Nathaniel Bivan I have...
