“WE NEED NEW NAMES”, NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel, which was recently shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, excited more international acclaim than any Zimbabwean book in the recent past. Continue reading
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her new novel | Telegraph UK
The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book, Americanah, is a story of romance, race and the politics of hair Continue reading
There Was a Country by Achebe | NYT
There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe
by Adam Nossiter
Rumors of Nigeria’s demise have been somewhat exaggerated. This turbulent and magnetic African megastate endures despite its intense regional, religious and Continue reading