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November 28, 2023

DK Nnuro Finds His Answers

The Ghanaian American author of What Napoleon Could Not Do, a summer reading pick by Barack Obama, has been thinking about art in our contemporary times.
Adams Adeosun
DK Nnuro

October 3, 2023

“You Have to Celebrate Writers While They’re Alive”: Labone Dialogues Is the Year’s Big Event in African Literature

Headlined by a quartet of feted veteran voices in Wole Soyinka, Aminatta Forna, Jennifer Makumbi, and Chris Abani, NYU Accra’s 30-author symposium is a convergence of inspiration. “We have to tell our own story,” said convener and school director Chike Frankie Edozien.
Otosirieze
Jennifer Makumbi

June 2, 2023

Ama Ata Aidoo, Literary Pioneer and Feminist Icon, Passes on at 81

As the first published African female playwright and Ghana’s former Minister of Education, the author of No Sweetness Here and Our Sister Killjoy was admired by Chimamanda Adichie, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and popstar Burna Boy. “The decay of Africa’s social, political, and economic systems is directly related to the complete marginalization of women,” she once said.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Ama Ata Aidoo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/GettyImages.

January 18, 2022

Bisi Adjapon’s Two Novels Set for U.S. Publication This Year

The Teller of Secrets, originally published in Nigeria as Of Women and Frogs, and Daughters in Exile were acquired in a 6-figure deal.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Bisi Adjapon's The Teller of Secrets

January 17, 2022

Ousman Umar’s North to Paradise, a Memoir of Migration Across the Sahara Desert

The story, moving from Ghana to Spain, has been called “a stunning testament to the strength of the human spirit.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu
ousman umar - north to paradise

December 2, 2021

Maaza Mengiste to Feature in NYU Accra’s “Labone Dialogues” Series

The Ethiopian novelist’s event is themed “Forgotten Heroines & Tomorrow’s Sheroes.”
Uzoma Ihejirika
Maaza Mengiste by Nina Subin.

December 2, 2021

Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jr.’s Flood Season Draws from Family History and Memories of Accra

The Ghanaian poet’s debut collection has spurred comparison to “folk poets like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Flood Season by Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr

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.

January 11, 2021

Kobby Ben Ben’s No One Dies Yet, Set in Accra in the Year of Return, Acquired by Europa

It is an “unsettling tale of murder in a country whose dead slaves are shackled with stories that must be heard.”
Uzoma Ihejirika
Kobby Ben Ben. From Kobby Ben Ben.

November 28, 2023

DK Nnuro

DK Nnuro Finds His Answers

The Ghanaian American author of What Napoleon Could Not Do, a summer reading pick by Barack Obama, has been thinking about art in our contemporary times.
Adams Adeosun

October 3, 2023

Jennifer Makumbi

“You Have to Celebrate Writers While They’re Alive”: Labone Dialogues Is the Year’s Big Event in African Literature

Headlined by a quartet of feted veteran voices in Wole Soyinka, Aminatta Forna, Jennifer Makumbi, and Chris Abani, NYU Accra’s 30-author symposium is a convergence of inspiration. “We have to tell our own story,” said convener and school director Chike Frankie Edozien.
Otosirieze

June 2, 2023

Ama Ata Aidoo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/GettyImages.

Ama Ata Aidoo, Literary Pioneer and Feminist Icon, Passes on at 81

As the first published African female playwright and Ghana’s former Minister of Education, the author of No Sweetness Here and Our Sister Killjoy was admired by Chimamanda Adichie, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and popstar Burna Boy. “The decay of Africa’s social, political, and economic systems is directly related to the complete marginalization of women,” she once said.
Paula Willie-Okafor

January 18, 2022

Bisi Adjapon's The Teller of Secrets

Bisi Adjapon’s Two Novels Set for U.S. Publication This Year

The Teller of Secrets, originally published in Nigeria as Of Women and Frogs, and Daughters in Exile were acquired in a 6-figure deal.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

January 17, 2022

ousman umar - north to paradise

Ousman Umar’s North to Paradise, a Memoir of Migration Across the Sahara Desert

The story, moving from Ghana to Spain, has been called “a stunning testament to the strength of the human spirit.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu

December 2, 2021

Maaza Mengiste by Nina Subin.

Maaza Mengiste to Feature in NYU Accra’s “Labone Dialogues” Series

The Ethiopian novelist’s event is themed “Forgotten Heroines & Tomorrow’s Sheroes.”
Uzoma Ihejirika

December 2, 2021

Flood Season by Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr

Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jr.’s Flood Season Draws from Family History and Memories of Accra

The Ghanaian poet’s debut collection has spurred comparison to “folk poets like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu

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

January 11, 2021

Kobby Ben Ben. From Kobby Ben Ben.

Kobby Ben Ben’s No One Dies Yet, Set in Accra in the Year of Return, Acquired by Europa

It is an “unsettling tale of murder in a country whose dead slaves are shackled with stories that must be heard.”
Uzoma Ihejirika

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