What Am I: On Race, Identity and Belonging
The matter of race is a strange one. On one hand, we are told there is no such thing as […]
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Crash Course On Negritude: Movement, Ideology and Its Immortality
When you research topics under African fiction, you’re bound to come across the term ‘Negritude’. After a few brushes with
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A Reflection on Writing African Fiction in Indigenous Languages
I cannot quite remember if her name was Mrs. Hajara or Mrs. Hassana, but I know her son, Abdulrasheed, was
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Feminism In African Fiction Using Chimamanda’s Works
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a literary legend known for her thought-provoking and beautiful prose. Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow
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Because Blogging Is Hard But I Might Like The Challenge
Blogging is difficult. I have eyebags that won’t go away! Oh, I wish I could say it is all rainbows
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Your Eid Mubarak Reading: Broken by Fatima Bala
Broken: Not A Halal Love Story by Fatima Bala is a story about faith, love and the persistent reach for salvation even when broken.
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The Portrayal of Childless Women in African Fiction
These books, and many more, highlight the struggles of women (and men) in childless marriages and ask that you (the society or relatives) lay off these people. Their childlessness doesn’t take years off your lifespan, neither will them having a baby add years to it. But your undue pressures and damaging comments will take something from them.
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Humour In Contemporary African Fiction
Although humour is agreed to be a universal phenomenon, it is also culture-specific, and hence cannot be neatly packaged into
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A View on the Representation of Autism in the African Fiction Space
Canonically autistic characters are characters who are explicitly identified by the author or within the storyverse as having autism. Autistic-coded characters are characters who exhibit autistic traits but are not explicitly identified as autistic.
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TIPS ON WRITING GOOD DIALOGUE PART 2
People have different manners of speaking. Some people would rather speak indirectly about something, usually in a bid to avoid confrontation, while others are fine being direct.
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