No one mocks a task, come noon.At first they labelled him a kook, but with time Our Dad has come to be loved, exalted, deified. His tenet that beauty lay…
Falling. Slipping. Descending.You awoke to a lukewarm gnawing at your stiff memory. You knew you were on air, falling, perhaps to hell. But when you placed your palms down, you…
Yaa Gyasi's novel Homegoing takes the form of a historical epic, a complex genre many writers would not choose to undertake for their first novel. Her bravery certainly intrigued us but her…
All they wanted was water. The one thing their money could not afford. They roamed from city to city. They scavenged the jungles and wilderness. In the desert they painted…
I'd always known he loved her more and I'd grown to accept things as they were. I was not surprised when he died a week ago and left her everything;…
We sat down with seminal writer and one of our Short Story Day Africa judges, Sindiwe Magona. She is also an accomplished poet, dramatist, storyteller, actress and motivational speaker. Here…
Nerine Dorman edited SSDA's highly acclaimed second anthology, Terra Incognita: New Short Speculative Stories from Africa. We interviewed her for WriterWednesday once, read that interview here. Nerine has generously allowed us…
Press ReleaseFriends of Ba re e ne re, we’re extremely excited to announce that starting 1 May until 30 June 2016 we’ll be accepting submission for a short story collection/anthology…
Charlotte Otter's crime novels feature a gusty feminist protagonist. No surprise then that she's published by Modjaji Books, one of Africa's finest independent publishers focussing on fiction written by women.…
Yewande Omotoso needs no introduction to African fiction lovers. Her debut novel, Bom Boy, was highly acclaimed, and her second highly anticipated novel, The Woman Next Door, has recently been published.…