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Meet the Small Nigerian Press With Its Sights Set on the World
Most people would spike an idea if the business plan revealed negative numbers year after year. But Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is not most people. With precisely no entrepreneurial experience, she ignored the...
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Chris Abani on Tenderness, James Baldwin, and Trying to Write About the...
Chris Abani talks to Paul Holdengraber about tenderness, Yoruban creation myths, and trying to write an essay about the refugee experience. Chris Abani on writing an essay on the refugee...
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8 Great Books by LGBTQ Authors From Places Where It’s Illegal to Be Gay
Today, May 17th, is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, first organized back in 2004 in order “to draw the attention of policymakers, opinion leaders, social movements, the public...
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Writing About Infertility in a World that Sees Childless Marriage as Tragedy
In the peculiar hierarchy of African households the only rung lower than motherless child is childless mother. Taiye Selasi, “The Sex Lives of African Girls” I know of a Nigerian couple who had been...
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17 Living Writers Currently Immortalized on Stamps
Earlier this week, Literary Hub Editor-in-Chief Jonny Diamond (who is Canadian) came across an image of an Alice Munro stamp (also Canadian) and wondered aloud if there were very many living writers...
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Imagining the Future of Nigeria: Accessing Africa Through Sci-Fi
In 2016, an old scam began circulating on Facebook about a man who needed to collect money to rescue his cousin, a Nigerian astronaut, from space. One Dr. Bakare Tunde explained that he needed to raise...
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What Does Resistance Look Like in the Face of Extremism?
I didn’t plan on becoming obsessed with Africa. But ever since taking a ten-month internship at a newspaper in Uganda after college, I have returned to the fascinating, unpredictable, and maddening...
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Meet the Small Nigerian Press With Its Sights Set on the World
Most people would spike an idea if the business plan revealed negative numbers year after year. But Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is not most people. With precisely no entrepreneurial experience, she ignored the...
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Chris Abani on Tenderness, James Baldwin, and Trying to Write About the...
Chris Abani talks to Paul Holdengraber about tenderness, Yoruban creation myths, and trying to write an essay about the refugee experience. Chris Abani on writing an essay on the refugee...
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On Writing Islamic Identity and Being Labeled a Political Writer
Any contemporary novelist who takes on themes of Islamic identity and jihad in their work risks being labeled a political writer. But for Elnathan John, a debut novelist from Nigeria, and Leila...
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Nicole Dennis-Benn and Chinelo Okparanta Tell Their Own Stories
Nicole Dennis-Benn’s debut novel, Here Comes the Sun, is available now from Liveright; Chinelo Okparanta’s latest novel is Under the Udala Trees. Nicole Dennis-Benn: In a 2015 Guardian article, author...
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On Queerness, Empathy, and Afro-Modernity
Mark Gevisser: Hello Pwaangulongi Dauod. Your piece in Granta “Africa’s Future Has No Space For Stupid Black Men” is explosive, devastating, passionate. It feels very urgent. What drove you to write...
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A Writer At Risk, Working in New York City
What is home, and how do you know where you truly belong? These are questions that Kanchana Ugbabe, an Indian-Nigerian writer currently living at Westbeth Artists Housing in New York City as a Fordham...
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Alien Invasion, Smalltown Insurrection, and the Neverending Fight for Resources
The New Books Network is a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing serious authors to a wide public via new media. They publish...
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From the Bronx to Rural Nigeria, How Kwame Onwuachi Became a Chef
When I was ten years old, I broke my mother’s wooden cutting board. I can’t remember how it happened; I’m sure it wasn’t on purpose. I’m not a psychopath. But regardless, in that moment both the...
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Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina’s Groundbreaking Work
I had two first meetings with Binyavanga Wainaina. The first was when he joined Carey Francis House (CF) in Lenana School as an incoming Fifth Former in the old A-level system. Binya turned CF into the...
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In Memoriam: Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina, a leading voice in African literature, winner of the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, and founder of Kwani?, died in Nairobi on Tuesday at the age of 48. His friends and...
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