Nigerian Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ayòbámi Adébáyò summons Yoruba folklore and a longstanding literary tradition in her debut novel

Books like Adichie’s “America​nah” and Gyasi’s “Home​going” have confounded neat divisions between Western and African literary traditions.

The writer-activist’s return to fiction remains as unsparing of India’s failings as her nonfiction

​This week’s reading and listening recommendations are from Milisuthando Bongela, Tarryn Crossman and Sisonke Msimang.

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay is now being distributed in Swedish to high-school pupils.

Authors are activists of the pen – visionaries whose purpose it is to show us the real world, and the world that we should want to have.