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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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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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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So, your characters speak. Sweet. Do they speak well enough to keep your readers interested?
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Traditions did not come with the first humans to walk the earth, like some sort of manual. They are not unchangeable, older-than-life truths. Instead, they were created when they were created…
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So, how do you like your people? Round or flat? I have to say, I quite like mine globular. Ahem,
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In African literature, speculative fiction has a name sweet to the tongue—Africanfuturism. Africanfuturism is a subgenre of the broader speculative fiction
An Introduction To African Speculative Fiction AKA Africanfuturism Read Post »
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.
Horror In African Fiction And Why We Need Genre Fiction Read Post »
Protest: a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something.
Protest Literature and Why African Literature Protests Read Post »
I am only appreciating our growth and ability to write about Africa without needing to reference anyone else—no pre-colonial, no colonial, and certainly no post-colonial. Just Africa.
Modern African Literature and The European Influence Read Post »