Remember when we spoke about flashbacks? About how they are the past cutting into the present to achieve a goal […]
Types And Examples of Foreshadowing, Plus Shameless Self-Promo Read Post »
Childhood—such a universal and yet very individual thing. We’ve all been children, though for how long depended on circumstances unique
Bumbum Matters and Oxymoronic People: Child Narrators In African Fiction Read Post »
I cannot quite remember if her name was Mrs. Hajara or Mrs. Hassana, but I know her son, Abdulrasheed, was
A Reflection on Writing African Fiction in Indigenous Languages Read Post »
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a literary legend known for her thought-provoking and beautiful prose. Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow
Feminism In African Fiction Using Chimamanda’s Works Read Post »
Broken: Not A Halal Love Story by Fatima Bala is a story about faith, love and the persistent reach for salvation even when broken.
Your Eid Mubarak Reading: Broken by Fatima Bala Read Post »
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.
Fiction As a Tool For Social Reform Read Post »
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.
The ‘Untranslatable’ In African Fiction Read Post »
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 »
