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‘June Jordan & The Alchemy of Literary Influences’ by Irenosen Okojie
‘Crowd nose. Little Bear. Slim Girl. Black Elk, Fox Belly. How do we follow after you?’ June Jordan asks, lamenting the loss of Native Americans in Poem for Nana. Shifting guises in I Must Become a...
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#longstorySHORT Heads to Lesotho
#longstorySHORT is an innovative initiative raising the profile of African literature on social networks and in the public imagination. For the first time the collective is hosting a reading outside...
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Bare Lit Festival Seeks to Diversify Literary Voices in the UK
This February a new festival is set to change the United Kingdom’s literary landscape. Bare Lit, organised by Media Diversified the country’s first literature festival is devoted wholly to Black, Asian...
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Our Favourite Things This Week
Sister Sister Minerva’s Lilies pulls back the curtains to reveal a brief glimpse of the enchantment accompanying two sisters’ experiences growing up in their mother’s tender gaze. The Ghanaian-British...
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Beyoncé dropped LEMONADE on April 23rd to much stan-fare, served with the usual side of haterade. The album – deeply personal, with several songs about heartbreak, infidelity, and her black womanhood,...
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8 BookTubers Review Books by African Authors
Thug Notes review of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Not much to say. Just watch: Jouelzy’s review of Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Jouelzy is… interesting. She has some good things to...
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Yewande Omotoso and Ayobami Adebayo on Baileys Prize Longlist
The news that this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction nominees are a diverse group shouldn’t really come as a surprise, as it is the one literary award where women are central, and diversity...
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7 Books That Document the African Immigrant Experience
Each April, New York celebrates the experiences and contributions of immigrants through Immigrant Heritage Week, April 18 – 23. Over 100,000 (4% of the population of New York) Africans call New York...
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Book Review: Collective Amnesia by Koleka Putuma
Survival poetry. That’s the best way to describe Koleka Putuma’s debut collection of poetry Collective Amnesia. Reading it broke my heart. Made me cry, laugh, angry and woke me up to some things I...
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Seven Multi-Talented Creatives Share Their Wisdom and Experience
Shike’s FB post really hit home for me, and I wanted others to gain some perspective from what he said, and so I decided to also ask other creative folk I know and have always admired to share their...
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