For many, US President Donald Trump embodies the ultra-conservative attitudes that hold great sway in Nigeria, and is perceived as a bulwark against what they see as the emasculation of America – and themselves – by the likes of feminism and political correctness.
Read MoreEach of the book's nine self-contained essays seeks to redefine concepts ranging from power to womanhood to liberation through a feminist lens.
Read MorePublished in 1966, the novel follows the eponymous protagonist as she and other female characters bend, twist, implement and break gender norms in colonial Nigeria.
Read MoreThe police and the military are birds of a feather. One is to minority communities in the US what the other is to black and brown countries worldwide.
Read MoreWhitefly follows Detective Laafrit’s investigation into the deaths of four young men found floating in the Mediterranean. The dead are irregular Moroccan migrants en route to neighbouring Spain, or at least that’s what Laafrit thinks until he discovers one of them was shot four times at close range.
Read MoreAfricans flying international routes describe the abysmal service they’ve experienced aboard airplanes and in airports.
Read MoreFrom 1967 to 1970, Nigeria and Biafra were locked in an internecine conflict that claimed more than one million lives and displaced countless others.
Read More“The day Oguta fell, my family was the last to leave our village because we were waiting for my uncle who had gone to get fuel for the car. There was a lot of gunshot and shelling. We were scared, especially my father. It’s not something one should experience twice.”
Read MoreIn Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, each character contends with a violent dictatorship, with none emerging guiltless or unscathed. Set in Addis Ababa in the mid-seventies, Maaza Mengiste’s debut novel gives a glimpse into the surveillance state perpetuated by Mengistu Haile Mariam’s military regime, which deposed Emperor Haile Selassie and effectively ended Ethiopia’s three-thousand year-old monarchy.
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