Organisations behind the wave of xenophobia use the language of participation, community and people’s power to justify marginalisation. The post South Africa’s anti‑migrant campaigns use the language of democracy: why that’s dangerous appeared first on This is Africa.
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Osvalde Lewat is not new to acclaim, but she is new to English-language readers, and that is about to change. The Aquatics, Lewat’s debut novel, translated by Maren Baudet-Lackner and published by Coffee House Press in the US and Cassava Republic in 2026, arrives carrying the weight of three major p
They say wherever the oká sits, its meal finds its way to his doorstep. This day, Ògún, let my steps not lead me to the threshold of that which longs for my blood. For the road has a hungry mouth. I’m still in the dawn of my green unravelling life. I’m just starting out, an […]
Nigerian singer and songwriter Bella Alubo has been quietly building a second lane as a designer
Kenya’s 14th Kalasha International Film & TV Awards turned Nairobi into a futuristic fashion playground,
Nigerian-American writer Chinelo Okparanta has announced her third novel, This Impossible Life, to be published by Mariner Books, an imprint of Harper Collins, on November 10, 2026. The announcement, made on Instagram, was as intimate as her fiction. “Although it’s fiction, this book draws from some
A new national poetry competition has arrived in Nigeria, and it comes with serious institutional weight behind it. The Pius Oleghe Poetry and Literary Awards (POPALS), named in honour of Pius Enahoro Oleghe, a distinguished Nigerian educator who devoted more than four decades of his life to educati
Professor Okey Ndibe, celebrated Nigerian novelist and academic, was detained for over three hours by the Department of State Services at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos earlier this month. In a Facebook post following his release, Ndibe wrote: “I am fine and in excellent spirits. I