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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...

African Book Critics’ List 2016

Wawa Book Review focuses on the outputs of African publishers, aiming to provide excellent commentary on books published on the continent and to give feedback to publishers,...

A Bride’s Mother’s Cry

By Dami Ajayi Title: Now the World Takes These Breaths Author: Joan Metelerkamp Publisher: Modjaji Books Number of pages: 61 Year of publication: 2014 Category: Poetry To the uninitiated, the poetry of Joan...

When to Write about Yourself

By Agbonmire Ifeh Title: To Quote Myself Author: Khaya Dlanga Publisher: Pan Macmillan South Africa Number of pages: 208 Year of publication: 2015 Category: Memoir Khaya Dlanga is neither a persecuted writer nor is he...

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...

Igbobi Boy: The Crisis of Education in Nigeria

By Emeka Ugwu Title: Igbobi Boy Author: Adebayo Lamikanra Publisher: Amkra Books Number of pages: 307 Year of publication: 2014 Category: Memoir ‘he ‘default setting’ of nine out of ten is primordial, no doubt. But...

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...

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