August 2024

Revisiting the Soyinka-Bọ́lẹ̀kájà Debate

Yinka Adetu·August 25, 2024

Since the landmark Soyinka-Bọ́lẹ̀kájà debate of the 1980s, African poetry has sparked intense discussions about authenticity and the influence of Western literary traditions and forms on its poets. Read More...

August/September 2024 Reading vol8-no3

Négritude Since Wole Soyinka

Oluwaseun Adetunji·August 25, 2024

Despite Wole Soyinka’s engaging, critical views about Négritude, why has the movement remained relevant in shaping Africa’s history, philosophy and literature? Read More...

August/September 2024 vol8-no3

The North African Novel in English: What Is It? How Is It?

Fayssal Bensalah·August 25, 2024

Arabophone and Francophone literatures have dominated the region of North Africa for decades, but now a third one is emerging—the Anglophone one. Read More...

August/September 2024 Best of 2024: Essays Reading vol8-no3

Nnadi Samuel’s Eclectic Gaze

Ancci·August 25, 2024

In his poetry chapbook, Nature Knows A Little About Slave Trade, Nnadi Samuel flexes an impressive thematic range, perpending such timeless and timely conditions as social policing, childhood, slave trade, religion as well as sign language. Read More...

August/September 2024 Nigeria Reading

The Ingenuity of Ayra Starr’s Afropop

Zainab Kuku·August 25, 2024

On The Year I Turned 21, Ayra Starr proves to be a limitless star—undefined and unconstrained by musical boundaries or rules. Read More...

August/September 2024 Nigeria

‘My Early Reading Featured a Lot of Religious Texts’ Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s First Draft

Chukwuebuka Ibeh·August 23, 2024

Nigerian writer, Chukwuebuka Ibeh, says the reception in Nigeria for his debut novel, Blessings, has been delightfully surprising: ‘I was prepared for much more vitriol, but that hasn’t been the case. I’ve also been amused by the split responses to events in the book, with some people wanting much less of the same thing that others seem to want much more of.’ Read More...

August/September 2024 First Draft Interviews Nigeria

Chatbot using NLTK Library Build Chatbot in Python using NLTK

Oluwafemi Fadahunsi·August 21, 2024

How To Build Your Own Chatbot Using Deep Learning by Amila Viraj The best part is you don’t... Read More...

Dispatch

Fiction as National Memory in the Age of Mass Protests

Hassan Kassim·August 18, 2024

Considering the 2024 Kenyan Gen Z protest, and the rising discontent among African youths, can literature play the role of lens in times of moral crisis, that too for a population that doesn’t read? Read More...

August/September 2024 Kenya Reading vol8-no3

The Exuberance of Rema

Carl Terver·August 18, 2024

What exactly is Rema’s latest album, HEIS? Is it noise, music, rage, rave? Afro rage? Afro metal? Read More...