African trader Nelson (centre) in a photo shop in Guangzhou, China.
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She reveals a range of African experiences: from traders to martial arts champions, visa overstayers to heart surgeons.
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Digital platforms have birthed a new school of writers and activists in Nigeria and Kenya.
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, whose novel A Spell of Good Things has been longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.
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A Spell of Good Things powerfully explores polygamy, patriarchy, political corruption and poverty.
The brains behind the popular photography newsletter is Nigerian writer, editor, publisher, and art critic Emmanuel Iduma.
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In less than a year the newsletter has become important and influential, offering a new way of appreciating African photography.
Toyin Falola has turned 70.
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With over 200 publications to his name, his three most recent books give a sense of why he is so famous as a historian.
A UK mural employs the trending hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.
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BringBackOurGirls led to a global outcry, but it simplified a complex history that is best understood through survivor accounts.
Filmmaker Biyi Bandele (left) directing the TV series Shuga in 2015. He was also a theatre maker and novelist.
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From Blood Sisters to Half of a Yellow Sun, he was loved for his TV series and films as well as his novel Burma Boy.
Wole Soyinka in 2017.
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The new novel by Nigerian icon Wole Soyinka is at once satire, political thriller and tragedy. It is the work of a great writer that marks the destruction of postcolonial reason.
Nigerian writter Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in a 2019 interview.
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The public politics of African writers has been in the spotlight again due to the bitter disagreement between Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Akwaeke Emezi over transgender issues.