Author Archives

• Review: “too much water”? Sarah Lubala’s ‘A History of Disappearance’

  By Wesley Macheso on 1 November , 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  Retelling her experience of meeting a Nigerian man on a crowded street in Hong Kong, the persona in Sarah Lubala’s “I am never more black”, from her 37-strong debut poetry collection A History of Disappearance (2022), concludes that “we are… Read More ›

• A Nation in Motion? A Review of Billy Kahora’s The Cape Cod Bicycle War (2)

  By Wesley Macheso on 27 January , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: This week, we bring you two reviews of Billy Kahora’s short story collection, The Cape Cod Bicycle Wars and Other Stories – originally published by Huza Press (Kigali) in 2019 and made available in the US with Ohio University Press in… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020: ‘Your appreciation of power will grow’: A Review of Erica Sugo Anyadike’s ‘How to Marry an African President’

  By Wesley Macheso on 24 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: AiW’s annual review series of what is now the AKO Caine Prize is back. We’ve been talking about prize culture for a long time at Africa in Words; Kate Wallis’s post on our joining the Caine Prize “blogathon” back in… Read More ›