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is a Nigerian academic and an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a joint appointment in the African Cultural Studies Department. She is the founder and editor of Brittle Paper , a leading online platform dedicated to African writing and literary culture.
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is a Nigerian academic and an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a joint appointment in the African Cultural Studies Department. She is the founder and editor of Brittle Paper , a leading online platform dedicated to African writing and literary culture.
AINEHI EDORO-GLINES
DECEMBER 3 2021
AINEHI EDORO-GLINES•DECEMBER 3 2021
Academic and founder and editor of Brittle Paper, Ainehi Edoro-Glines, has often heard that the African novel is simply the European novel with African themes: ‘I think that’s BS. African novels are something entirely different. Read Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka or Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater, and there is NOTHING in the European canon that can explain the innovations taking place in those texts.’