Latest articles on Nigerian Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Another Nigerian star emerges
Ayòbámi Adébáyò summons Yoruba folklore and a longstanding literary tradition in her debut novel
New African literature is disrupting what Western presses prize
Books like Adichie’s “Americanah” and Gyasi’s “Homegoing” have confounded neat divisions between Western and African literary traditions.
Roy brings nationalists no joy
The writer-activist’s return to fiction remains as unsparing of India’s failings as her nonfiction
The Lists: ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’, MF Doom and Anthony and the Johnsons
This week’s reading and listening recommendations are from Milisuthando Bongela, Tarryn Crossman and Sisonke Msimang.
Feminist essay a must-read for 16-year-old Swedes
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's essay is now being distributed in Swedish to high-school pupils.
African writing: Fact, fiction, or faction?
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.
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