Image: http://habeshala.tumblr.com/ Ethiopian-American poet Mahtem Shiferraw won the 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her manuscript, Fuchsia, now published. She spoke to us about her poetry, unique sensory experiences,…
South African writer Edyth Bulbring has published eight Young Adult novels. Her latest, Snitch, is due out later this month. She spoke to us about connecting with young readers and…
The Score is Liberian writer HJ Golakai's follow up to her popular debut The Lazarus Effect. She spoke to us about writing, her sense of being and her favourite African…
Last year we had the pleasure of interviewing Moses Kilolo, Wanjeri Gakuru and Anne Moraa, three writers from the awesome pan-African writers collective, Jalada. They shared their thoughts on writing and editing. Here's…
Nuzo Onoh self-publishes African horror. She terms her work as an "unexplored genre" likening it to the Japanese Kaidan tradition. Your work is said to be African Horror, which is reminiscent…
Hospital BedsWe hang on everything. On branches disconnected from stems and leaning on walls. Like lolling tongues hanging at mouth corners. We have an abode. Billions of us. We leap…
The Satellite CharmerA polyharmony in B minor rang from a violin of space dust, drawing an undulating ♫ on the void from a tense string. “Sirius exploded at your birth,” his…
Under the Udala Trees, Chinelo Okparanta's debut novel has received international critical acclaim. As Edwidge Danticat has made personal the legacy of Haiti’s political coming of age, Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees uses…
Ciku Kimeria lives and works in Kenya as a writer, travel blogger and as a consultant on international development issues. She loves people, writing, learning different languages, and cultural exchanges.Her…
Nick Mulgrew's debut collection, Stations, contains fourteen subtly interlinked tales set along the Southern African coastline from Cape Town to Mozambique, in which relationships, dreams and even narrators die; where fields…