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May 28, 2021

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Wins Jhalak Prize 2021

The Ugandan was awarded for her second novel, The First Woman.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Jennifer Makumbi by Danny Moran.

February 12, 2021

“Long Talk”: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor & Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Their conversation, “The Root of Nations,” will re-examine what it means to formulate a state via the incredibly important but rarely considered female gaze.
A Long House
Jennifer Makumbi by Danny Moran.

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

December 28, 2023

Our Top Stories of 2023

Otosirieze
Evelyne Ily as Prisca in Mami Wata

August 4, 2022

Troy Onyango on Lolwe & Literary Magazine Publishing in Africa

The platform, founded and edited by the Kenyan writer, is building a conversation between Africa and the Black diaspora. It is his second venture after the defunct Enkare Review.
Socrates Mbamalu
Troy Onyango by Jagero.

July 28, 2022

Jumi Bello’s Debut Novel Was Dropped for Plagiarism. New Details Show It’s Serial.

An investigative feature in Airmail traced the American Nigerian writer’s history of taking without attribution.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Jumi Bello by Saman Assefi via Airmail.

March 31, 2022

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Emmanuel Iduma, & Siphiwe Ndlovu Win Windham-Campbell Prizes

Each of the 8 winners will receive $165,000.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Tsitsi Dangarembga. By Hannah Mertz in The Guardian

January 27, 2022

C.A. Davids’ How to Be a Revolutionary Explores Personal and Political Loyalties

The novel, set in South Africa and China, has been compared to fiction by Teju Cole and Zinzi Clemmons.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
C.A. Davids by Geena Wilkinson

December 30, 2020

How Tsitsi Dangarembga, with Her Trilogy of Zimbabwe, Overcame

Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions, is a modern classic, and after The Book of Not, she concludes Tambu’s story with the Booker Prize-shortlisted This Mournable Body. But the literary and film icon never planned for these to take almost four decades.
Otosirieze
Tsitsi Dangarembga.

May 28, 2021

Jennifer Makumbi by Danny Moran.

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Wins Jhalak Prize 2021

The Ugandan was awarded for her second novel, The First Woman.
Paula Willie-Okafor

February 12, 2021

Jennifer Makumbi by Danny Moran.

“Long Talk”: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor & Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Their conversation, “The Root of Nations,” will re-examine what it means to formulate a state via the incredibly important but rarely considered female gaze.
A Long House

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

December 28, 2023

Evelyne Ily as Prisca in Mami Wata

Our Top Stories of 2023

Otosirieze

August 4, 2022

Troy Onyango by Jagero.

Troy Onyango on Lolwe & Literary Magazine Publishing in Africa

The platform, founded and edited by the Kenyan writer, is building a conversation between Africa and the Black diaspora. It is his second venture after the defunct Enkare Review.
Socrates Mbamalu

July 28, 2022

Jumi Bello by Saman Assefi via Airmail.

Jumi Bello’s Debut Novel Was Dropped for Plagiarism. New Details Show It’s Serial.

An investigative feature in Airmail traced the American Nigerian writer’s history of taking without attribution.
Paula Willie-Okafor

March 31, 2022

Tsitsi Dangarembga. By Hannah Mertz in The Guardian

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Emmanuel Iduma, & Siphiwe Ndlovu Win Windham-Campbell Prizes

Each of the 8 winners will receive $165,000.
Uzoma Ihejirika

January 27, 2022

C.A. Davids by Geena Wilkinson

C.A. Davids’ How to Be a Revolutionary Explores Personal and Political Loyalties

The novel, set in South Africa and China, has been compared to fiction by Teju Cole and Zinzi Clemmons.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

December 30, 2020

Tsitsi Dangarembga.

How Tsitsi Dangarembga, with Her Trilogy of Zimbabwe, Overcame

Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions, is a modern classic, and after The Book of Not, she concludes Tambu’s story with the Booker Prize-shortlisted This Mournable Body. But the literary and film icon never planned for these to take almost four decades.
Otosirieze

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