KNOW YOUR AUTHORS: OCTAVIA BUTLER
BY RAYNA REID RAYFORD
On this International Women's Day, the Ama Ata AIdoo Centre for Creative Writing sautes Octavia Estelle Butler. the greatest writer that...
20 African authors you should know
There's a whole host of authors from Africa who are making a splash on the international stage. These are a few.
Maaza Mengiste's novel The...
Romance Novellas And The Postcolonial African City
By Emily Callaci Themetropole
In the late 1970s, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania was one of the most rapidly growing cities in the world. Each year,...
An Obscure Afro-Brazilian “Colony” In Ghana: Accra’s Tabon Community
By Hermann W. von Hesse SOURCE: The Metropole
In the summer of 2017, I returned from Madison, Wisconsin to Accra – my hometown and Ghana’s...
Major Elements in African Literature
Source: Britannica.com
African literature, the body of traditional oral and written literatures in Afro-Asiatic and African languages together with works written by Africans in European...
Know Your Authors: Efua Sutherland
Efua Sutherland was a phenomenal Ghanaian writer, dramatist, teacher, scholar and cultural activist. For about 40 years, she was in the forefront of literary...
Know Your Authors: Kojo Laing
B. Kojo Laing ('B' for Bernard) was a novelist and poet, whose writing is characterized by its hybridity, using Pidgin and vernacular alongside standard...
Know Your Authors: Ayi Kwei Armah
Ayi Kwei Armah is a highly acclaimed novelist, poet and pan-African. Armah’s work is known to critically examine moral integrity that exists between the...
Know Your Authors: Ama Ata Aidoo
Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo is one of Africa’s foremost woman writers. She’s a feminist, poet, academic, playwright and novelist with many notable works under...
Authors of Untold Stories Vol. I: Short Stories and Poems
Vanessa Naa Okialey Vanderpuye is a Level 300 student of African University College of Communication, majoring in Journalism. She’s from Agona Swedru. Poetry and...