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Who’d play iconic characters like Okonkwo, Yejide, and Ikenna in a Nollywood adaptation? We’ve listed our dream casting choices for five beloved African Literature.

Lauren Bacall was 19 and Humphrey Bogart was 44 when they were cast together in To Have and Have Not in 1944. They married the following year, when she was 20 and he was 45. Hollywood has paired partn...

Do we forever operate on the defensive, fingers perpetually pointed towards the dark deeds of neo-colonial contemporaries and their colonial forebears?

The movie industry is in high demand, raking in profits and fan engagement. Here are ten top recent films from the action and comedy genres.

African literature is known for beautiful stories and evocative plots. Here are 10 hypeworthy 2026 releases to add to your TBR list

The following comma rules cover common situations, explain frequent mistakes and show how commas can serve a writer’s purpose.

The strongest gambling movies are about what characters attach to a bet: debt, status, loyalty, survival or the belief that one more decision can repair what came before. That is why movies about casi...

In Thomas Hart Benton’s 1948 painting Poker Night, Blanche DuBois holds up a hand glass, her sister Stella leans over an armchair, and a drunk, angry Stanley Kowalski stands in a white undershir...

Studying third-person omniscient examples can help writers understand how an all-knowing narrator shapes a plot.

People often discuss reading and gaming as though one belongs to the world of intellectual activity and the other to mindless entertainment.

Below are ten masterclass examples of flash fiction, each showing a different way to inspire your next writing project.

African literature has always given us memorable characters that stick with us long after we’re done reading.

Do we forever operate on the defensive, fingers perpetually pointed towards the dark deeds of neo-colonial contemporaries and their colonial forebears?

Like every major movement in art history, gore art is an emotional language designed to process humanity’s most overwhelming experiences.

Not every branch deserves the same defence. This conflict explains much of the appeal of forbidden love romance books.

We Should All Be Feminists is perhaps her most direct attempt to turn those questions into a conversation.

Horror romance is one of fiction’s oldest and most enduring combinations, where tenderness and terror orbit each other.

ISTJ characters are necessary breathers because they often represent duty in its most intentional form. But is that all there is to them?

One way of reviving African literature may not be just in terms of new themes, but in terms of new forms or structures.

In American folklore, monsters are not just campfire stories. They act as mirrors, transforming anxieties into physical creatures.

The flaw of stereotypes is not that they are fabricated, but that they are incomplete. This is the danger of a single story.

Woolf told us to arrange whatever pieces come our way. Not to wait for the right circumstances or the market to want what you have.

In places where officials would rather not have things written down, fiction stands in as a witness. It gives names to what’s usually left unspoken.

Understanding the heroism within INFJ characters offers a different lens on the profound impact their experiences have on their lives.

The following comma rules cover common situations, explain frequent mistakes and show how commas can serve a writer’s purpose.

Studying third-person omniscient examples can help writers understand how an all-knowing narrator shapes a plot.

Below are ten masterclass examples of flash fiction, each showing a different way to inspire your next writing project.

Cartoon style is often treated as simply drawing characters with exaggerated features, bright colours, and expressive faces.

What if there were a way to write about life’s most impactful experiences, but cooler? That is the fascinating territory of autofiction.

What if African authors used literary devices like this?

Buchi Emecheta went from an orphaned girl in Lagos to a librarian, sociologist, novelist, lecturer, and internationally recognised writer.

Every story has an origin. The author’s perspective shapes narratives, influences characters, and engages audiences.

Sefi Atta turns everyday motions into something remarkable, stories that make you ask what parts of your own life you’ve been overlooking.

Narratives do not always need dramatic transformations. A static character is not simply someone who does nothing.

The round vs flat character debate becomes more interesting when “flatness” stops being treated as a synonym for poor writing.

We’ve all heard the golden rule of creative writing: “Show, don’t tell.” But what happens when we apply this rule to the theme in literature?

The round vs flat character debate becomes more interesting when “flatness” stops being treated as a synonym for poor writing.

An author can publish independently. This has made it difficult to define the relationship between the internet and reading.

Is literary fiction actually “better” than genre fiction, or has everyone simply agreed to act like it is?

Both Game of Thrones  and The Wheel of Time completely reshaped the fantasy genre, but they did it in almost opposite ways.

Few literary conversations embody these contrasts more fully than the enduring debate surrounding prose vs poetry.

Classic horror novels acted as mirrors of their time, but not always fairly, reflecting fear and distortion.

Some debates in publishing never quite go away, and one of these topics is board book vs hardcover. Which format truly serves its purpose?

Needless to say, the creative nonfiction genre doesn’t have the best reputation among the more free-spirited reader community. 

There is a persistent debate about the assumed inferiority of African Literature compared to Western Stories.

Literature has long embraced both directness. Yet debate persists over the validity of smut stories, dividing readers, writers, and critics.

The old versus new, an argument as old as time. Viewers miss 90s rom coms. In the same vein, modern rom coms are also fan favourites.

When you read a well-written thriller or mystery novel, do you get this feel-good emotion that encompasses your whole being and lights up your world?  Have you ever spent 10 minutes on a call try...