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Digital platforms have birthed a new school of writers and activists in Nigeria and Kenya.
A Spell of Good Things powerfully explores polygamy, patriarchy, political corruption and poverty.
In less than a year the newsletter has become important and influential, offering a new way of appreciating African photography.
With over 200 publications to his name, his three most recent books give a sense of why he is so famous as a historian.
BringBackOurGirls led to a global outcry, but it simplified a complex history that is best understood through survivor accounts.
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.
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.
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.
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Professor of Modern Literature, University of York
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Lecturer, University of Nigeria
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PhD Candidate, Cornell University
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Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University
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Research Associate, Humanities Research Centre (and African Literature Department, University of the Witwatersrand), University of York
