Is The African Fiction Space Saturated?
No, the African fiction space is not saturated. Just like the Western fiction space is not saturated, and there is […]
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Politics And The African Novel
Here is an African proverb for you: ‘Until the lion has its own historian, tales of the hunt will always
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Here’s Why That African Novel Packs A Punch
I remember pausing to think ‘omo, people dey write’ while reading Chimeka Garrick’s A Broken People’s Playlist. I’ve gone on
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Bumbum Matters and Oxymoronic People: Child Narrators In African Fiction
Childhood—such a universal and yet very individual thing. We’ve all been children, though for how long depended on circumstances unique
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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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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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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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Fiction As a Tool For Social Reform
Because words have the power to inspire action and one person who speaks or writes enough of these words will attract people who can move mountains by sheer will and number.
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