Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
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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March 24, 2022 .
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Some work regular jobs to get it, while others earn a degree in Menology( the men pay their bills). Set in South Africa, Bontle is...
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Adesuwa does exceptionally well and deserves credit for centering women over forty as worthy of love. Not consolation love. Not “s...
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July 20, 2025 .
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March 19, 2023 .
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This book portrays the story of most Nigerian young men saddled with responsibility in a country where the depths of your pocket m...
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July 15, 2025 .
African Literature, queer
Necessary Fiction is a Communion of Truth. It demands that we slow down, listen deeply, and absorb not only what is said, but what...
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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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