Book Review: Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
Note: I wrote this review a few months ago (immediately after reading the book) and have since moved on to […]
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Types And Examples of Foreshadowing, Plus Shameless Self-Promo
Remember when we spoke about flashbacks? About how they are the past cutting into the present to achieve a goal
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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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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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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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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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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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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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