Discover the most anticipated 2025 fiction releases: Our editors share their picks, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'Dream Count' and Akwaeke Emezi's 'Somadina.' Add these must-read books...
Since 2018, Brittle Paper has curated an annual list of 100 notable books that have significantly contributed to African literature. As one of the major literary...
The nominees for the 2023 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Awards have been revealed, and Nigeria is ably represented. Nigerian music...
“They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.” This opening sentence of The Death of Vivek Oji rightly encapsulates the main plot and prepares...
TIME has released the newest class of Next Generation Leaders and Nigeria-born, best-selling author of the critically acclaimed “Freshwater“, “PET” and “The Death of Vivek Oji“,...
Hey BNers, we have decided to smash our reading goals this year, haven’t we? Wait a minute, do you have a reading goal or plan? No?...
I’d been seduced by the early pages of the book. It was the casualness of tragedy and the flippancy with which the protagonists and his friends...
Akwaeke Emezi‘s debut novel “Freshwater” is currently being developed for a series by FX. According to Variety, the series focuses on Ada, a Nigerian student in her...
The one thing I like about Hunger is the matter of fact way Roxane Gay describes situations. To her there’s a story to tell, and instead...
I imagine so many of us have decided in 2019 we are going to be reading. All the books we missed out on. Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater,...
The literary world has barraged us with books this year: while you are trying to keep up with one, here comes news of another bestseller about...
It really is the golden age for creatives in Nigeria. Nigerian music is played in clubs everywhere in the world, from Davido to Yemi Alade, and so...
Don’t you absolutely love it when a family achieves excellence in whatever it is they do? It’s really refreshing. This is the case for the Emezi...
When there is a mention of Nigerian literature there’s a possibility that you’ll assume that the themes are centred around culture and tradition. Perhaps there was...
Last week, social media was abuzz with the news of plagiarism accusations by Morland Fellowship recipient & writer, Akwaeke Emezi. Ms. Emezi accused filmmaker Mariona Lloreta...
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