In a couple of moments, you'll be on to us. We asked both the authors that make up Frank Owen the same questions, to get a Human League, he-said, she-said…
Rivalry is rife in writing. Famous battles have included Ernest Hemingway vs. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez vs. Mario Vargas Llosa and Charlotte Brontë vs. Jane Austen. So were interested to find…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Wanjeri Gakuru lives and works in Nairobi. She is a writer, journalist and a familiar face to anyone who has been to a literary festival on the continent. She spoke…