View Post 2 Books Reviewing: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 18th August 2017 by Vanessa Thomas Our book editor, Vanessa Thomas, revisits this Toni Morrison classic, which due to its controversial subjects, has seen… View Post Share
View Post 4 Out & About What you missed at the first ever Shout Out Live Festival 18th August 2017 by Vanessa Thomas After months of careful preparation, the cream of black podcasters came together on Saturday 5 August 2017 in… View Post Share
View Post 2 Books Book Review: Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo 4th August 2017 by Vanessa Thomas What happens when a woman is so desperate to get pregnant that she breastfeeds a goat? Described as… View Post Share
View Post 2 Books Book Review: No Place to Call Home 28th July 2017 by Vanessa Thomas No Place To Call Home is a fictional tale exploring a family that flees the political violence of… View Post Share
View Post 3 Books Remembering Buchi Emecheta, OBE 21st July 2017 by Vanessa Thomas Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta, OBE, widely regarded as one of Africa’s finest writers, passed away aged 72 earlier this… View Post Share
View Post 2 Books Reviewing: The Hate U Give 14th July 2017 by Vanessa Thomas This young adult debut novel by Angie Thomas came out in April 2017 and it was certainly a… View Post Share
View Post 3 Books What happened at this year’s Africa Writes event? 14th July 2017 by Vanessa Thomas If you are a bookwork and love African writers, publishers, poets and all things literature, then you were… View Post Share
View Post 2 Books Reviewing: Little Black Book: A Toolkit For Working Women 7th July 2017 by Vanessa Thomas Described as a modern career guide for the creative woman, Refinery 29 says it is the book of… View Post Share
View Post 2 Books Book review: Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People 30th June 2017 by Vanessa Thomas This hotly anticipated book dubbed ‘essential’ by writer Marlon James is one that I have been looking forward… View Post Share
View Post 1 Books Book Review: Satans and Shaitans 16th June 2017 by Vanessa Thomas Author Obinna Udenwe has been making waves in the short story realm since 2012 having been shortlisted for… View Post Share
View Post 4 People Siana Bangura addresses the elephant in the room 13th June 2017 by Vanessa Thomas Activist. Writer. Poet. Journalist. Historian. Publisher. The list could go on… If you don’t know of her already,… View Post Share
View Post 2 Books Book Review: My Name is Leon 9th June 2017 by Vanessa Thomas Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, and given 4 out of 5 stars on Good Reads, My… View Post Share
View Post 2 Books Book of the week: The Book of Harlan 2nd June 2017 by Vanessa Thomas When a novel is described by the Washington Post as “simply miraculous”, expectations are likely to be quite… View Post Share
View Post 5 Books Interviewing the spectacular Irenosen Okojie 27th May 2017 by Vanessa Thomas Her prose is often described as rich, evocative, funny and hints at a razor-sharp wit that weaves through… View Post Share
View Post 2 Books Book of the week: Welcome to Lagos, by Chibundu Onuzo 19th May 2017 by Vanessa Thomas Although not the first story set in the bustling city of Lagos, Chibundu Onuzo’s book definitely differs from… View Post Share