Sandra A. Mushi is an interior architect, poet and author of Rhythm of my Rhyme (poetry). Her articles, poems and stories are available online and in popular journals. Her latest publication, Stains on my Khanga, is a collection of stories and poems...
Webmasters, bloggers and editors of literary websites are usually behind the scenes operators, quietly refreshing web pages, writing and keeping the Literary Web humming with new content. AfricanWriter.com is conducting a series of occasional...
Sola Osofisan interviews Maik Nwosu, poet, novelist, journalist and associate professor of African and world literature at the University of Denver, Colorado. Maik Nwosu is the author of The Suns of Kush, Invisible Chapters, Alpha Song, Return to...
Sola Osofisan interviews Kabu Okai-Davies, Australia-based Ghanaian poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and theatre producer. The widely travelled author of Curfew’s Children, a recently published childhood memoir, has been published in...
Image: Sola OsofisanSola Osofisan interviews author and widely syndicated essayist, Okey Ndibe, founding editor of African Commentary, a critically acclaimed magazine founded by the literary icon, Chinua Achebe. Author of Arrows of Rain, and co...
Sola Osofisan interviews Ikhide Ikheloa, a book interrogator, blogger and digital advocate once known exclusively online as Nnamdi. I have been following Ikhide Ikheloa’s essays and views on the web since 2002. I started publishing that year a...
Sola Osofisan interviews Dr. Amitabh Mitra, a South African poet and artist of Bengali roots. The author of poetry collections Ritual Silences, A Slow Train to Gwalior, Mdantsane Breathing, and lately, co-editor of ‘Splinters of a Mirage Dawn...
December 9, 2013: The publishers of Okey Ndibe’s upcoming novel, Foreign Gods, Inc., as part of ongoing publicity for the book slated for release January 2014, organized a meet and greet for the author and members of the media/literati. I was...
“Aaaghhhh!” It was her mother screaming. It sounded as if the past was bewailing the loss of its future. In all of Ebitimi’s five seasons under the sun, she had never heard her mother make noise like that… It was a bad noise… It was a hurt bad...
Her hand trembled as she pushed aside the rain-drenched hibiscus stalk blocking her view. She could see the house properly now. It had a deserted look about it in the gathering night, that unlived in appearance of lavishly under-utilized houses of...
I don’t want to be cool and for a long time I was experimenting with different voices in my writing. It took me a long time to realise I just had to be myself, comfortable with who I was. I don’t want to be popular. I don’t know how to be cool...
The problems with my earlier books are not really my problems, they are Nigeria’s problems! Almost all books published in Nigeria have similar problems. So, instead of running away, so to say, from our problem by not listing our poorly produced...
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