In which we look through books with sports at their centre that have been written by African writers in recent times. A few weeks ago, Eliud Kipchoge, a Kenyan athlete, broke the 2-hour barrier for the marathon. On Saturday, South Africa’s rugby team the Springboks line up to meet the English in the Rugby Union […]
Nnedi Okorafor, Louise Umutoni, Imbolo Mbue, Warsan Shire, Yaa Gyasi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Okwiri Oduor made OkayAfrica’s 100 Women list. OkayAfrica is a popular website for Africans on the continent and in the diaspora dedicated to African culture, music and politics. The influential website compiled what it calls “OkayAfrica’s 100 Women;” an influential group […]
Channels Book Club, one of the few TV shows on the continent dedicated to books, have unveiled their top 20 Nigerian Books of 2016. Some of the authors featured on this list include Leye Adenle, Johwor Ile, Elnathan John and Helon Habila. The Channels Book Club is a book and author based program aiming to […]
Detectives rocking the pages of some of the best African writing today who need their day on the silver screen. So a few weeks ago I did a post about the need for more African novels that need to be made into movies. It was a fun post for me and I was just sharing […]
