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An African Literary Blog by Brittle Paper is a literary project designed to adapt African literary culture to this new reality. It is a Fresh and provocative take on African writing and literary culture.
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22h ago
Memory taps a gun to your inner skull and demands you bring back the dead. ―Donte Collins, Autopsy. We can begin with my mother coming back home, or else none of this matters. I am in the kitchen making sandwiches for my little brothers while waiting for the water to boil when my ..read more
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22h ago
Sierra Leonean literary space Poda-Poda Stories is looking for writers to submit fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and book reviews to their new call for submissions. If you are a Sierra Leonean writer in Africa or the diaspora, we recommend you submit by the deadline of June 1. Poda-Poda Stories is a Sierra Leonean literary platform that ..read more
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Tomi Adeyemi’s final book in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy titled Children of Anguish and Anarchy hits bookstores on June 25, and she will be going on a whirlwind book tour around the US from June 25 – July 1. If you’re in the area, definitely check out the events below. Tomi Adeyemi is a Nigerian-American writer ..read more
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2d ago
Introduction: Elsewhere African cultures and cosmologies can provide a wealth of inexhaustible resources for the project of epistemic decentring. Having exhausted technoscientific reason and confronted the civilizational consequences of its impasses, new metaphors are required for the future. We must heed the call for a renewal of the very sources of the imaginary and of ..read more
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2d ago
It has been an entire year since the war in Sudan began. Sudanese-American poet Safia Elhillo shared her moving thoughts on the war on her Instagram. April 15 marked the anniversary of the ongoing war in Sudan. The civil war began between the two rival factions of the military government of Sudan, the Sudanese Armed ..read more
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3d ago
Dear Expressway Contractor, I hope you are well. I am writing this letter to you in reminiscence of an experience I had 2 months ago, back when it was still raining. On that particular day, I was walking in town on my way to State House Road, but, of course, not to State House ..read more
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3d ago
Applications are now open for the 2024–2025 Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships. If you are a resident of New York City, this is the perfect chance to apply for this year-long fellowship. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the Center for Fiction is the only nonprofit literary organization in the U.S. solely ..read more
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3d ago
The BBC just revealed a sneak peek into Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristor’s Mr Loverman TV series and we are absolutely obsessed with the stills from the show. Based on Evaristo’s 2013 novel of the same name, the 8-part drama series will air later this year on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Mr Loverman explores ..read more
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4d ago
Six major US publishers have taken up the fight against repressive Iowa law – Senate File 496 – which bans books containing “sex acts” in school libraries and classrooms. US laws affect the African book market immensely because these major publishers are the ones promoting and publishing African literature, giving African authors a voice. Iowa ..read more
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Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi’s 2020 book Transcendent Kingdom has been optioned for TV by Sony Pictures Television with none other than Yvonne Orji as the producer. We love when African creatives collaborate on a project as important as this one! Yvonne Orji is a Nigerian-American actress and comedian. She is best known for her role in the ..read more