Culture & Society
On Being Black and Other Lies Unravelling My Blackness in Post-Apartheid South Africa
I had always been anxious about returning to South Africa. Besides awkward puberty, an awakening awaited me in South Africa, sparked by a dizzying confrontation with the reality of race. Read more. Read More...
‘I Can Never Get Bored of Writing About Sex’ Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s First Draft
Author of 'The Sex Lives of African Women' and co-founder of Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, will never stop writing about sex. Read our interview. Read More...
Are Nigerians Dancing to a ‘Cult Anthem’? RxNews 17 December 2021
Criticism of the ‘Ameno’ remix has coincided with a documentary on cultism in Nigeria that The BBC’s Africa Eye aired on 13 December 2021. Read more. Read More...
Renowned Author and Feminist, bell hooks, Has Died RxNews 16 December 2021
bell hooks’ works not just tackled subjects like race, gender, class, history, and sexuality but also love and friendship. Read more. Read More...
‘What We Read Lives in Our Heads’ Sangu Delle’s First Draft
Entrepreneur, investor and author of ‘Making Futures: Young Entrepreneurs in a Dynamic Africa’, Sangu Delle, thinks success is ‘overhyped’ and has been studying how people fail. Read our interview. Read More...
Kehinde: Mother, Woman Identity Formation in Buchi Emecheta’s ‘Kehinde’
In 'Kehinde‘, Emecheta used brutal ‘documentary-style’ realism to showcase the plights of women in patriarchal societies, and often, the question that lay beneath was, what would our world be if women were freed from toxic gender roles? Read more. Read More...
Upon Mount Zion, There Shall Be Deliverance The Church and My Political Awakening
The church was where I had my political awakening. For nearly five years, weekly sermons, prayer sessions and testimonies, gave me an education, about being African in the UK, that I couldn’t get in school. Read more. Read More...
‘I Now Know How to Write in Short Bursts.’ Ainehi Edoro-Glines’ First Draft
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. Read our interview. Read More...
Buchi Emecheta’s ‘The Joys Of Motherhood’ A Precursor to Contemporary Nigerian Feminist Texts
‘The Joys of Motherhood’ could be considered as one of the forebears of feminist issues on reproductive justice and culture within the rich Nigerian literary tradition. Read more. Read More...
‘There’s Always Something New to Learn.’ Michael Elegbede’s First Draft
Head Chef at ÌTÀN Test Kitchen, Michael Elegbede, grew up in a family of chefs. The last book he enjoyed was Life, On The Line by Grant Achatz. Read our interview. Read More...
