Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
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
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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September 12, 2025 .
African Literature
In Some Angels Don’t See God, Ever Obi has crafted a work that lingers in memory, in feeling, and in the difficult but neces...
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September 2, 2025 .
African Literature
In the end, Parlour Wife is not without merit. It’s readable, even engaging at points, but its flaws hold it back from being...
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September 2, 2025 .
African Literature
So yes, Your Tomorrow Was Today is guaranteed to be a book that will touch you, regardless of gender, interests or philosophy. ...
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August 18, 2025 .
African Literature
At the heart of it, An Unusual Grief is about survival, not the neat, inspirational kind, but the messy kind that doesn’t always m...
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August 6, 2025 .
African Literature
A Kind of Madness is a collection of short stories that feature very relatable beings who wrestle with their identities, independe...
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August 3, 2025 .
African Literature
While many books in the Nigerian literature space hint at the chaos in Lagos, the Lagos Flash Fiction series really highlights the...
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July 21, 2025 .
African Literature
Allow Me to Introduce Myself is a fresh story, one that has never been written (not to my knowledge) but is long overdue.
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July 21, 2025 .
Necessary Fiction is that one book you will never tire of rereading. It belongs in museums. It belongs in the halls of the sacred....
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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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