Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize Win Is an Inspiration to a New Generation of African Writers
This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature went to Abdulrazak Gurnah, 73-year-old writer and academic, born in Zanzibar and currently residing…
Tsitsi Dangarembga: Coming Full Circle by Zukiswa Wanner
Title: This Mournable Body Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga Publisher: Graywolf Press Reviewed by: Zukiswa Wanner Pages: 284 Cost: 1,650 In…
How Lola Shoneyin, Abubakar Ibrahim, Ayobami Adebayo, Elnathan John Stormed Prestige Bookshop
In the past decade, African writing has gone through a Renaissance. More than ever, African literary voices are being read…
Kenya’s Top 2017 Reads
1. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin (KES 1,350) To the dismay of her ambitious mother, Bolanle…
Joe Kadenge:The Life of a Football Legend
John Nene’s book Joe Kadenge: The Life of a Football Legend takes the reader back to the hay days of…