Four Novels That You Must Read This weekend
Novels are movies on pages. If you are looking for books to spend time with this weekend, you may want to check out these four: Thirteen Months of Sunrise, by Rania Mamoun, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette (Comma Press, 2019) In this powerful debut…
Cyprian Ekwensi – The Maverick Writer
Cyprian Ekwensi was a man whose palate is prose. Nigerians still love Ekwensi. School children read his colourful sketches of life in Africa’s most populous, and complicated country. For a one-time Biafran propagandist, whose work was often broadcast on…
Five Short Story Collections That Would Make Your Weekend Better
I enjoy short stories that are quick, witty, and suspenseful, especially when they’re African and told in a traditional style. If you have some free time, grab a cold drink, open up these short stories, and enjoy the read. 1. Love is Power, Or…
Blind Faculty – By Kingsley Okafor
A school of thought has argued that genius will falter by the side of labor; genius is also a capacity for taking troubles. The experiences of three youngsters, namely, Ebuka, Nduka and Temitope, eloquently attest to this assertion. Buoyed by exuberance…
God’s Children Are Little Broken Things – By Arinze Ifeakandu
You met in your second year. At the stadium one cloudy evening when you played against his department. He was not a player, he was too small to be one, even though you knew that bigness wasn’t the stuff anyway. But he was so small, so fragile, you were…
The Devil In America – Kai Ashante
1955 Emmett Till, sure, I remember. Your great grandfather, sitting at the table with the paper spread out, looked up and said something to Grandma. She looked over my way and made me leave the room: Emmett Till. In high school I had a friend everybody…
The Secret Ghost Of War
Just days before the infamous D-Day a group of German radio operators have just received news of chatter from U.S and British forces about to gear up for a huge operation. As a german recon plane quietly crosses the English channel what it sees confirms…
Insurrection – A Chapter From “The Gorilla” By Kamal Riahi
About one o’clock in the afternoon. The wind is busy rolling along some beer-can that has been drained of its contents in the deserted street. A massive silence links the arch of the Sea Gate with the enormous clocktower The clocktower in November 7…
The Grand Inquisitor- A Short Story By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Quite impossible, as you see, to start without an introduction,” laughed Ivan. “Well, then, I mean to place the event described in the poem in the sixteenth century, an age—as you must have been told at school—when it was the great fashion among poets…
I Don’t Obey Orders – A Short Story By Ziad Khadash
As I was sitting in a taxi stuck in a queue of cars at the Atara Israeli army checkpoint, heading to Nablus to meet a beautiful widow I’d got to know on Facebook, it struck me that the timing of my trip to Nablus that day was unfortunate – there had…