Griet skryf ’n sprokie is in een notendop het verhaal van een schrijfster met een identiteitscrisis. Die innerlijke worsteling wordt veroorzaakt door een stukgelopen huwelijk, en een lange reeks vruchteloze zwangerschappen, die de protagonist Griet Swart tot een zelfmoordpoging drijven. Haar suïcide, geïnspireerd op de CO-vergiftiging door de oven van de Amerikaanse dichteres Sylvia Plath, […]
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Last year (2017) was the fifty-fifth anniversary of the historic African Writers Conference held in June, 1962 at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. The conference which, as Obiajunwa Wali (1963: 14) rightly suggests “was faced with the fundamental question of defining African literature”, brought together many of the writers who will go on to influence […]
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En 2007, Le Monde des livres publiait un manifeste intitulé « Pour une littérature-monde en français ». Une quarantaine d’auteurs célèbres y réclamait de mettre fin à l’idée de la francophonie comme espace littéraire français hors de la France. Les écrivains voulaient « réagir contre la définition d’une littérature francophone dont le centre, la littérature […]
Christopher Okigbo 1930-67: Thirsting for Sunlight. By Obi Nwakanma. Suffolk, UK: James Currey, 2017. pp xxviii+276. £17.99, paperback. (ISBN 978-1-84701-179-4) Christopher Okigbo’s generally acknowledged charm, intrepid exploits in sports, breathless adventures, penchant for imaginative self-portraits, gallantry as well as his enchanting, if often misunderstood, poetry rendered him larger than life in the imagination of his […]
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Ernest N. Emenyonu (ed.). A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. England: James Currey, 2017. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-84701-162-6 (Africa only paperback ISBN: 978-1-84701-163-3). pp. 300+xii. £25.00 hardback Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is undoubtedly one of the most engaging literary figures to have burst onto the world’s literary landscape in recent times. Her writing has introduced new motifs […]
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Questions for the author of Season of Crimson Blossoms, a book that blew my mind. EO: Recently in Nigeria, in a dramatic turn of events, an Igbo grandmother was caught having sex with a much younger man shortly after her husband’s death. The community shamed her by parading her on the street and banishing her […]
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Timothy Ogene, The Day Ends Like Any Day. Berkshire, England: Holland House, 2017, pp.264. ISBN: 978-1-910688-29-8 (paperback); 978-1-910688-30-4 (kindle) The Novel that Ends like None Else There is no sun today, save the finch’s yellow breast, and the world seems faultless in spite of it. Across the sound, a continuous ectoplasm of gray, a ferry […]
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Last summer, the New Orleans Review, a journal of contemporary literature and culture housed in the Department of English at Loyola University, published their recent issue titled “The African Literary Hustle.” The journal, which has featured several writers including Pablo Neruda, Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Olen Butler, is entering its fiftieth year in 2018 […]
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I interviewed the Kenyan author Stanley Gazemba on the occasion of his 2002 novel The Stone Hills of Maragoli being republished in the U.S. under the title Forbidden Fruit (June 2017). In April 2017, we had a conversation about his work and the Kenyan literary landscape at the Go Down Arts Centre in Nairobi, where […]
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Hidden behind a leafy courtyard off Nairobi’s Riverside Drive, Kwani Trust houses one of Kenya’s (and perhaps Africa’s) most fascinating literary contributions of the last decades. The small, cosy shop can hardly reveal the magnitude of this movement, which since its inception in 2003 has adopted an increasingly influential voice within Africa’s intellectual and cultural […]
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Griet skryf ‘n sprokie – Eendag was daar ’n sosiaal kritiese en hermafrodiete heks | Lieselot Tuytens
/in Uncategorized /by Gilbert2017Griet skryf ’n sprokie is in een notendop het verhaal van een schrijfster met een identiteitscrisis. Die innerlijke worsteling wordt veroorzaakt door een stukgelopen huwelijk, en een lange reeks vruchteloze zwangerschappen, die de protagonist Griet Swart tot een zelfmoordpoging drijven. Haar suïcide, geïnspireerd op de CO-vergiftiging door de oven van de Amerikaanse dichteres Sylvia Plath, […]
“…the future literary direction is…about the receded as it is about what is at hand”: A Review of The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short Stories | by Nancy Henaku
/in Uncategorized /by Gilbert2017Last year (2017) was the fifty-fifth anniversary of the historic African Writers Conference held in June, 1962 at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. The conference which, as Obiajunwa Wali (1963: 14) rightly suggests “was faced with the fundamental question of defining African literature”, brought together many of the writers who will go on to influence […]
La fabrique des classiques africains. Écrivains d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone | Une critique d’Ewout Decoorne
/in Uncategorized /by Gilbert2017En 2007, Le Monde des livres publiait un manifeste intitulé « Pour une littérature-monde en français ». Une quarantaine d’auteurs célèbres y réclamait de mettre fin à l’idée de la francophonie comme espace littéraire français hors de la France. Les écrivains voulaient « réagir contre la définition d’une littérature francophone dont le centre, la littérature […]
Thirsting for Sunlight: Testing for Light, Tasting of Myth | A Review by Isidore Diala
/in Uncategorized /by Gilbert2017Christopher Okigbo 1930-67: Thirsting for Sunlight. By Obi Nwakanma. Suffolk, UK: James Currey, 2017. pp xxviii+276. £17.99, paperback. (ISBN 978-1-84701-179-4) Christopher Okigbo’s generally acknowledged charm, intrepid exploits in sports, breathless adventures, penchant for imaginative self-portraits, gallantry as well as his enchanting, if often misunderstood, poetry rendered him larger than life in the imagination of his […]
A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | A Review by Sola Adeyemi
/in Uncategorized /by Gilbert2017Ernest N. Emenyonu (ed.). A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. England: James Currey, 2017. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-84701-162-6 (Africa only paperback ISBN: 978-1-84701-163-3). pp. 300+xii. £25.00 hardback Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is undoubtedly one of the most engaging literary figures to have burst onto the world’s literary landscape in recent times. Her writing has introduced new motifs […]
An Interview with Abubakar Adam Ibrahim | by Elizabeth Olaoye
/in Uncategorized /by Gilbert2017Questions for the author of Season of Crimson Blossoms, a book that blew my mind. EO: Recently in Nigeria, in a dramatic turn of events, an Igbo grandmother was caught having sex with a much younger man shortly after her husband’s death. The community shamed her by parading her on the street and banishing her […]
The Day Ends Like Any Day | A Review by Sola Adeyemi
/in Uncategorized /by Gilbert2017Timothy Ogene, The Day Ends Like Any Day. Berkshire, England: Holland House, 2017, pp.264. ISBN: 978-1-910688-29-8 (paperback); 978-1-910688-30-4 (kindle) The Novel that Ends like None Else There is no sun today, save the finch’s yellow breast, and the world seems faultless in spite of it. Across the sound, a continuous ectoplasm of gray, a ferry […]
“African literature is a question…an open question that invites…” | A Review of “The African Literary Hustle” (New Orleans Review, Issue 43, 2017) by Nancy Henaku
/in Uncategorized /by Gilbert2017Last summer, the New Orleans Review, a journal of contemporary literature and culture housed in the Department of English at Loyola University, published their recent issue titled “The African Literary Hustle.” The journal, which has featured several writers including Pablo Neruda, Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Olen Butler, is entering its fiftieth year in 2018 […]
Stanley Gazemba on mermaids and how to prevent us from turning into robots | An interview by Elke Seghers
/in Uncategorized /by Gilbert2017I interviewed the Kenyan author Stanley Gazemba on the occasion of his 2002 novel The Stone Hills of Maragoli being republished in the U.S. under the title Forbidden Fruit (June 2017). In April 2017, we had a conversation about his work and the Kenyan literary landscape at the Go Down Arts Centre in Nairobi, where […]
Writing beyond borders: Kwani Trust as an ambitious African LINGO | An article by Ewout Decoorne
/in Uncategorized /by Gilbert2017Hidden behind a leafy courtyard off Nairobi’s Riverside Drive, Kwani Trust houses one of Kenya’s (and perhaps Africa’s) most fascinating literary contributions of the last decades. The small, cosy shop can hardly reveal the magnitude of this movement, which since its inception in 2003 has adopted an increasingly influential voice within Africa’s intellectual and cultural […]