Reviewing: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Our book editor, Vanessa Thomas, revisits this Toni Morrison classic, which due to its controversial subjects, has seen…
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What you missed at the first ever Shout Out Live Festival
After months of careful preparation, the cream of black podcasters came together on Saturday 5 August 2017 in…
Book Review: Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
What happens when a woman is so desperate to get pregnant that she breastfeeds a goat? Described as…
Book Review: No Place to Call Home
No Place To Call Home is a fictional tale exploring a family that flees the political violence of…
Remembering Buchi Emecheta, OBE
Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta, OBE, widely regarded as one of Africa’s finest writers, passed away aged 72 earlier this…
Reviewing: The Hate U Give
This young adult debut novel by Angie Thomas came out in April 2017 and it was certainly a…
What happened at this year’s Africa Writes event?
If you are a bookwork and love African writers, publishers, poets and all things literature, then you were…
Reviewing: Little Black Book: A Toolkit For Working Women
Described as a modern career guide for the creative woman, Refinery 29 says it is the book of…
Book review: Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People
This hotly anticipated book dubbed ‘essential’ by writer Marlon James is one that I have been looking forward…
Book Review: Satans and Shaitans
Author Obinna Udenwe has been making waves in the short story realm since 2012 having been shortlisted for…
Siana Bangura addresses the elephant in the room
Activist. Writer. Poet. Journalist. Historian. Publisher. The list could go on… If you don’t know of her already,…
Book Review: My Name is Leon
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, and given 4 out of 5 stars on Good Reads, My…
Book of the week: The Book of Harlan
When a novel is described by the Washington Post as “simply miraculous”, expectations are likely to be quite…
Interviewing the spectacular Irenosen Okojie
Her prose is often described as rich, evocative, funny and hints at a razor-sharp wit that weaves through…
Book of the week: Welcome to Lagos, by Chibundu Onuzo
Although not the first story set in the bustling city of Lagos, Chibundu Onuzo’s book definitely differs from…