How To Create Well-rounded Characters
So, how do you like your people? Round or flat? I have to say, I quite like mine globular. Ahem, […]
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The ‘Untranslatable’ In African Fiction
Words that do not have a counterpart in the English language. Words that stem from a culture and cannot be understood without first understanding the culture. These words are like music to the ears and they always stand, sentinel against the complete transformation of a work of art.
Take Ikenga in Things Fall Apart for example.
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An Introduction To African Speculative Fiction AKA Africanfuturism
In African literature, speculative fiction has a name sweet to the tongue—Africanfuturism. Africanfuturism is a subgenre of the broader speculative fiction
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How To Give Yourself The Mental Space Necessary To Create
I’ve realised that to create really is brutal work. Nothing like the romanticised version I’ve had in my head all this time.
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What To Do When Stuck In The Middle Of Your Novel
In other words, how do you get out of the midpoint drag?
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How To Keep A Reader Interested In Your Novel
Today I’m not talking about grabbing your readers’ attention—start with a sizzling paragraph and you’ve got readers hooked—I’m talking about keeping that attention, because unless you cultivate that skill, your reader will move on to the next book that has an even more sizzling opening paragraph.
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Horror In African Fiction And Why We Need Genre Fiction
There are so many genres to explore and with the African clime chock full of folktales, superstitions and traditional beliefs, you cannot begin to imagine the epics that would come out of bending our rich reality into these genres.
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Demystifying Writer’s Block
If suffering from writer’s block was a sport, I’d likely win a medal. You probably would too.
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Protest Literature and Why African Literature Protests
Protest: a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something.
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Masquerades And The Thing With Individual Perception
Last year I spent Christmas in the village. The highlight of the festivities for me, followed closely by my skilled
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