Subscribe

Search Results for: yaa gyasi

April 30, 2021

Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom Shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021

The selections, says the chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo, are “gloriously varied and thematically rich . . . and grapple with society’s big issues expressed through thrilling storytelling.”
Ernest Ogunyemi
Yaa Gyasi by Cody Pickens for TIME.

March 12, 2021

Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom Longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction

“[It] had me in tears, wailing, the most emotional I’ve felt after reading a book, for a long, long time,” said one of the judges.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom by Books Upstairs.

February 9, 2021

Yaa Gyasi Longlisted for PEN/Faulkner Award

The Ghanaian novelist is nominated for her second novel Transcendent Kingdom.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom by Books Upstairs.

November 11, 2021

In God of Mercy, Okezie Nwọka Creates a “Folklore of the Uncolonized”

The Nigerian writer’s debut novel, of Igbo fantasy, has been praised as a cross between Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Okezie Nwọka’s God of Mercy

July 23, 2022

In Conversation with Lan Samantha Chang, Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

The influential Chinese American novelist on running the famed program, new African writing, MFAs, literary genres, and her novel The Family Chao. “There is the possibility of creating the conversation that brings in as many voices as possible,” she said of the Workshop.
Otosirieze
Lan Samantha Chang by IfeOluwa Nihinlola

February 6, 2021

In Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water, It’s Black Love & Art

The British Ghanaian writer and photographer’s debut novel is one of the year’s most anticipated new books.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Caleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water. From @caleb_anelson on Instagram.

April 30, 2021

Yaa Gyasi by Cody Pickens for TIME.

Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom Shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021

The selections, says the chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo, are “gloriously varied and thematically rich . . . and grapple with society’s big issues expressed through thrilling storytelling.”
Ernest Ogunyemi

March 12, 2021

Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom by Books Upstairs.

Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom Longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction

“[It] had me in tears, wailing, the most emotional I’ve felt after reading a book, for a long, long time,” said one of the judges.
Ernest Ogunyemi

February 9, 2021

Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom by Books Upstairs.

Yaa Gyasi Longlisted for PEN/Faulkner Award

The Ghanaian novelist is nominated for her second novel Transcendent Kingdom.
Ernest Ogunyemi

November 11, 2021

Okezie Nwọka’s God of Mercy

In God of Mercy, Okezie Nwọka Creates a “Folklore of the Uncolonized”

The Nigerian writer’s debut novel, of Igbo fantasy, has been praised as a cross between Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf.
Uzoma Ihejirika

July 23, 2022

Lan Samantha Chang by IfeOluwa Nihinlola

In Conversation with Lan Samantha Chang, Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

The influential Chinese American novelist on running the famed program, new African writing, MFAs, literary genres, and her novel The Family Chao. “There is the possibility of creating the conversation that brings in as many voices as possible,” she said of the Workshop.
Otosirieze

February 6, 2021

Caleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water. From @caleb_anelson on Instagram.

In Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water, It’s Black Love & Art

The British Ghanaian writer and photographer’s debut novel is one of the year’s most anticipated new books.
Paula Willie-Okafor

“An ambitious new magazine committed to African literature”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Join 25,000+ subscribers to essential, in-depth stories in African literature, Nigerian film, & culture: inspiring Profiles, incisive reviews, thought-provoking features & conversations that happen nowhere else. It's premium access to the visions of changemakers, from icons to emerging voices. Plus key industry stories from Folio Nigeria by CNN.

We respect your privacy and will never send you Spam or sell your email.

NO, I DON'T CARE ABOUT AFRICAN WHATEVER.

Top