Friday, April 19, 2024

Fiction

A Review of Hiding in Plain Sight

By Agatha Aduro Title: Hiding in Plain Sight Author: Nuruddin Farah Publisher: Kwani Trust Number of pages: 322 Year of publication: 2015 Category: Fiction A dream, a premonition and...

The Fishermen, a Nationalist Reading

By Kwabena Agyare Yeboah Title: The Fishermen Author: Chigozie Obioma Publisher: Cassava Republic Press Number of pages: 301 Year of publication: 2015 Category: Fiction One day in the lives of...

Hustling for Discourse: Between Sociology, Psychology and Literature

By Tomiwa Ilori Title: The Peculiars Author: Jen Thorpe Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Number of pages: 243 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Fiction The vocabulary...

Piggy Boy’s Blues: Why Memories Wear Make-up

By Tinuke Adeyi Title: Piggy Boy’s Blues Author: Nakhane Touré Publisher: BlackBird Books Number of pages: 156 Year of publication: 2015 Category: Fiction ‘The novel is an event in...

The Many Shades of Water

By Tolu Akinwole Title: Water: New Short Fiction from Africa Editors: Nick Mulgrew and Karina Szczurek Publisher: Short Story Day Africa Number of pages: 272 Year of...

A Review of Zakes Mda’s Little Suns

By Troy Onyango Title: Little Suns Author: Zakes Mda Publisher: Umuzi Number of pages: 269 Year of publication: 2015 Category: Fiction ‘There’s a new sun every day. It rises in the east and crawls...

A Review of Whitefly

By Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè Title: Whitefly Author: Abdelilah Hamdouchi Translator: Jonathan Smolin  Publisher: Hoopoe Number of pages: 136 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Fiction Whitefly is crime fiction set...

Eating the Rich: A Review of Nkosinathi Sithole’s Hunger Eats a Man

By Richard Oduor Oduku Title: Hunger Eats a Man Author: Nkosinathi Sithole Publisher: Penguin Books (South Africa) Number of pages: 166 Year of publication: 2015 Category: Fiction Hunger Eats a Man is a story of...

Of Paths and Destiny: A Review of Bizuum Yadok’s King of the Jungle

By Su'eddie Vershima Agema Title: King of the Jungle Author: Bizuum Yadok Publisher: Kraftgriots Number of pages: 271 Year of publication: 2014 Category: Fiction The path of one’s life is inscribed on one’s...

To Do a Person’s Work: A Review of Boy, Interrupted

By Tunji Olalere Title: Boy, Interrupted Author: Saah Millimono Publisher: Kwani Trust Number of pages: 150 Year of publication: 2014 Category: Fiction ‘SBU da Small Boy Unit, the albino said. Today we na bring dem wif...

Breaking the Cryptex: A Review of H J Golakai’s The Score

By Uchenna Ekweremadu Title: The Score Author: H J Golakai Publisher: Kwela Books Number of pages: 376 Year of publication: 2015 Category: Fiction Every day, we hear or read about employers ‘actively poaching’ stars from...

The Ghosts of 1894: Revisiting the Rwandan Genocide

By Emeka Ugwu Title: The Ghosts of 1894 Author: Oduor Jagero Publisher: KoaMedia Number of pages: 254 Year of publication: 2015 Category: Fiction ‘What happened in Rwanda happened to us all – humanity was wounded...

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