"African works constitute books, movies,
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Top reviews and blog posts
October 4, 2024 .
africanliterature, speculative fiction
Ghostroots is an exciting addition to the growing list of contemporary and speculative fiction in African literature.
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March 27, 2024 .
africanliterature
Dazzling Mirage achieves what few other works of Nigerian literature have accomplished: a thorough examination of the challenges f...
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June 2, 2025 .
Abdulrazah Gurnah, East African Literature, Memory and Trauma
Saleh’s is the quiet of a man who has learnt to live with grief, while Latif’s is the restless isolation of someone who has never ...
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July 26, 2024 .
africanliterature
More significantly, Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow is a subtle call to womanhood to love herself in whatever shape, colour, and ...
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February 16, 2024 .
africanliterature
I lived in Ghana for four years, and No One Dies Yet took me down memory lane with vivid descriptions of the Makola market and the...
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May 24, 2022 .
childrenofthequicksands, efuatraore
I think this is very reminiscent of many Nigerian children today (the torn from cultural roots part), which is sad because we are ...
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Excerpts, interviews, releases and events
January 9, 2025 .
filmone, Nollywood
As Nollywood continues to gain global recognition, Reel Love represents an exciting milestone in both storytelling and production ...
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January 6, 2025 .
amazonprime, familygbese, Nollywood
Family Gbese incorporates both Igbo and Yoruba, bringing some cultural dynamism to the plot, which adds to its realism and appeal ...
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December 21, 2024 .
amazonprime, Nollywood
Christmas In Lagos is a delightful romance movie with intriguing characters that evoke several pleasant emotions, setting viewers ...
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September 24, 2024 .
filmone, Nollywood
On Thursday, September 19th, FilmOne Entertainment hosted a spectacular Exhibitors Showcase themed “Cinema Without Borders I...
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March 26, 2024 .
breathoflife, Nollywood
Breath of Life is an aptly named Nollywood banger that’s sure to draw goosebumps from your skin in its God-awe-inspiring sho...
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October 18, 2023 .
movie, Netflix, Nollywood
The Black Book was a huge success. More importantly, it heralds an enviable future for the Nigerian film industry.
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July 2, 2023 .
movies, Netflix, Nollywood
The title is rather misleading as the storyline has little to do with either the stripper or the born-again. Instead, it should ha...
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June 3, 2024 .
Crime, gangsoflagos, Nollywood
Welcome to the gritty streets of Isale Eko, Lagos, where life is rough, and the only role models are thugs with their ill-gotten w...
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Read essays, deep critiques, and analyses of African art, dynamics, ideology, and philosophy.
May 26, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review, Family Trauma
Plot-wise, it was well thought out. No unnecessary gaps, the central theme was clear from the jump. Oyinkan builds tension steadil...
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May 21, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review
For a collection of short stories, Niq Mhlongo manages to give his characters depth in a few pages/sentences.
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May 22, 2026 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Itohan had travelled to Juk to retrieve Ebuka’s badly mangled body and returned it to his old parents in their village in Imo Stat...
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November 19, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
A Meal Is a Meal is a journey into the surprising and the bizarre, as well as the tantalising and the delicious.
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November 10, 2025 .
Excerpt
In fact, on the morning of my birthday, just after we had broken up, I had spent time in the hotel begging someone else to love me...
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November 7, 2025 .
Anthology, Excerpt, Narrative Landscape
But he walked out the door and said he would go, by foot, if necessary, to Afghanistan, to kill the infidels who were bombing Musl...
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November 5, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Those hours waiting for her mother to return were spent in a state of inertia; she wouldn’t have been able to say what she had don...
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November 3, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt, Middle Grade
By the time you get this, I will be far away. It is cowardly, I know, but I cannot see your faces and walk away. Please forgive me...
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October 23, 2025 .
African Literature
The Road to the Country is not about reimagining war. It’s about facing it; its chaos, silence and legacy. It’s about the people w...
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September 17, 2025 .
African Literature
Think of Freshwater book as Eddie and Venom: the parasitical aspect, with its supreme interactions with the ordinary.
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September 17, 2025 .
African Literature
Swallow is a Queernormative historical fiction that reimagines the lives of Efunsetan Aniwura and Efunporonye Osuntinubu, two powe...
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September 16, 2025 .
African Literature
Eloghosa Osunde writes in a way that keeps the reader in awe and gives shivers. Refreshing. Subliminal. Surreal. Daring.
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