The Best of Africa is an online portal for African ideas and voices. Through creative submissions from their global network, they provide readers useful, intelligent and thoroughly researched commentary and analysis on Africa in order to showcase that the beauty… Read More ›
AiW Note: The Caine Prize has recently removed Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s “All Our Lives” from the 2019 shortlist, following a decision that there had been “failure to attribute an original source.” Short Story Day Africa, who awarded its 2017 Prize… Read More ›
The 4th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference June 25 – 29, 2019 Faculty of Management Sciences University of Lagos Nigeria The fourth annual Lagos Studies Association Conference is taking place at the University of Lagos, Nigeria in June this year…. Read More ›
AiW Guest: Sam Naidu. Leye Adenle’s noir thriller, When Trouble Sleeps, is an excoriating critique of contemporary Nigerian society. From the prologue, with its melodramatic plane crash to the surprisingly satisfying conclusion, this novel is relentless in its examination of… Read More ›
RAL Special Issue on Interrogating the “Post-Nation” in African Literary Writing: Globalities and Localities Guest Editor: Madhu Krishnan What is Africa? Where is Africa written and in whose image is Africa constructed? These questions have become commonplace refrains in discussions… Read More ›
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