Ayòbámi Adébáyò summons Yoruba folklore and a longstanding literary tradition in her debut novel
Books like Adichie’s “Americanah” and Gyasi’s “Homegoing” 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.
