Itohan had travelled to Juk to retrieve Ebuka’s badly mangled body and returned it to his old parents in their village in Imo State.

Contemporary African literature distinguishes itself by reclaiming both the right to tell African stories and to define their terms.

A Meal Is a Meal is a journey into the surprising and the bizarre, as well as the tantalising and the delicious.

In African horror novels, juju serves as a moral and cultural force, marking the unseen boundaries between the living and the dead.

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 done with the time.

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, knowing that I have gone to make a better life for us all.

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 who lived through it and those still carrying it in their blood. ...

A US-based publisher of African literature, Iskanchi Press, has extended the deadline for submissions to its design contest for The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies by Unathi Slasha, winner of the 2...

Think of Freshwater book as Eddie and Venom: the parasitical aspect, with its supreme interactions with the ordinary.

Swallow is a Queernormative historical fiction that reimagines the lives of Efunsetan Aniwura and Efunporonye Osuntinubu, two powerful women.

Eloghosa Osunde writes in a way that keeps the reader in awe and gives shivers. Refreshing. Subliminal. Surreal. Daring. 

In Some Angels Don’t See God, Ever Obi has crafted a work that lingers in memory, in feeling, and in the difficult but necessary questions it leaves behind.