AFRICAN LITERARY PROFILES

What a remarkably creative writer Sindiwe Magona is! Recently (2021) at the age of 78, she published a new novel, When the Village Sleeps...

In many ways the Nigerian writer, Amos Tutuola was a special writer, the first from his country to publish a celebrated imaginative work in...

Africa has produced many remarkable female literary critics and academics over the decades - like Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana), Assia Djebar (Alger...

    By I. M Soqaga   Every time when the Nobel Prize winner in literature would be announced the news will invariably arouse great int...

Many readers - Africa in mind here - find short stories in particular tantalising and gripping.  Such creative works are much easier to re...

  FESTUS IYAYI By the mid 80s - decades ago Festus Iyayi was already ensconced as a major imaginative writer thanks to 3 superb novels pu...

  By I. Mzwandile Soqaga (South Africa) When we think of Kenyan Literature our minds often automatically go to outstanding writers like Ng...