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By Niyi Osundare Gone, the Magic Muse of Aracataca. In a manner similar to his wondrous tales, I can see him levitating towards the skies, a pen in one hand,[…]
Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Review
by Dami Ajayi . In 2010, eight writers gathered in a workshop to create futuristic stories, scenario and events about Lagos. They leaped fifty years forward. Lagos_2060 is the product[…]
Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Non-fiction
by Mukoma wa Ngugi I know that Black people were sold as slaves because they were seen as talking beasts of burden and Africans colonized for their own good; and[…]
Essays/Criticism · Fiction · Lit Mag · Non-fiction
by Binyavanga Wainaina (A lost chapter from One Day I Will Write About This Place) 11 July, 2000. This is not the right version of events. Hey mum. I was putting[…]
Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Non-fiction
by Dami Ajayi I Once upon a time. I happened on a book. And I fell in love with the book. I borrow my staccato sentences from this rather quaint[…]
by Kola Tubosun What will the Caine Prize judges be looking for this year? Topicality? Politics? Dexterity? Profundity? Conflict? Emotion? Complexity? Looking at a set of shortlisted stories that[…]
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by Kola Tubosun Here are my thoughts on the final story on the Caine Prize shortlist: Chinelo Okparanta’s America. Thoughts on earlier stories are here: Bayan Layi, Miracle, Foreign Aid and Whispering Trees. _________________ As far as[…]
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by Kola Tubosun This week, I discuss my thoughts on Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Whispering Trees, the fourth story on the shortlist of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing. Many other[…]
Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Literature · opinion
by Kola Tubosun I began reading this story with trepidation, and a worry that after reading Elnathan John’s “Bayan Layi” which moved me in a disturbing yet endearing way, and Tope Folarin’s “Miracle”,[…]
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by Kola Tubosun This week, as part of my five-week blogathon on the five shortlisted stories in the 2013 Caine Prize, I present some thoughts on the second story: Tope Folarin’s Miracle, first published in the[…]