Chika Unigwe Archives - James Murua's Literature Blog

Toni Kan’s “Nights of the Creaking Bed” makes UK debut.

Toni Kan’s critically acclaimed and award-winning short story collection Nights of the Creaking Bed makes its UK debut today April […]

Nigeria’s newest imprint Cassava Shorts is set to issue titles by Chika Unigwe, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Toni Kan. There’s […]

November 26, 2018

Nigerian Prize for Literature 2017 winner Ikeogu Oke has passed on. The poet died from a short illness on Sunday, […]

Writers from across the African continent converged on Berlin for the first African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the […]

Alain Mabanckou is on the Man Booker International Prize 2017 Longlist that has been announced today. The Man Booker International […]

Buchi Emecheta the author of numerous novels passed away in London, UK on January 25th 2017. Tributes from all over […]

Chika Unigwe is one of the judges who have been announced for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize 2017. Chika […]

It official. Ugandan writer and poet Mildred Barya has been selected as the 2015 winner of the Sylt Foundation African […]

The short list for the Writivism Short Story Competition 2015 has been announced by Chika Unigwe the chair of the […]

There are so many events in and around the African Literature sphere in the very recent. One of the one’s […]

This morning I spent time reading a two part series from ThisIsAfrica.me, a website that does a lot of writing […]