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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June 22, 2025 .
africanliterature
Memoirs of a Lagos Junior Banker is a must-read for lovers of contemporary African fiction and anyone who’s ever muttered, “I can’...
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May 21, 2025 .
africanliterature
Attah delivers, page after immersive page. I couldn’t put it down. The Hundred Wells of Salaga is the kind of book you swall...
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May 12, 2025 .
africanliterature
Inale: The Dream Chaser is a charming and inspiring children’s book that reminds us how big dreams can start in the smallest heart...
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July 9, 2025 .
African Literature
Unscrupulous drivers, obnoxious women, two-faced fake lifers, and more all feature in Memoirs of a Lagos Baker, a fun-filled tease...
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July 20, 2025 .
Essays
Measuring Time, winner of the Virginia Library Foundation prize for fiction (2008), follows the lives of two persons (Mamo and LaM...
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April 15, 2025 .
africanliterature, feminism
Dream Count isn’t particularly a happy one. It didn’t evoke hope in me, but it felt real, grounding, and even a little scary ...
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March 14, 2025 .
africanliterature, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What I really liked about Dream Count is Adichie’s tone. There’s this gentleness in her writing—it’s almost as i...
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March 6, 2025 .
africanliterature
I give Happiness Is A Sickle-kinikan In My Belly, a ten over ten rating but because of the perfectly harnessed themes, settings, c...
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February 25, 2025 .
africanliterature
Vagabonds! is rich in themes of spiritualism, mysticism, queer dynamics, and possession, that literally takes on flesh, saying, “W...
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February 21, 2025 .
africanliterature, Ghana
My Parents’ Marriage is about immigrant life in the US, how we all leave home with lofty dreams, only to meet a vastly diffe...
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February 20, 2025 .
africanliterature, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, cna
Preorders for the Dream Count audiobook are now open on the Genti Audio app (available on iOS and Play Store) for a special preord...
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