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...
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...
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...
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...
Review of A Time to Part by Ama Pomaa
By Celestine Nudanu
It was amazing. A GREAT READ
I received A Time To Part from the author as an advanced review copy for a candid...
The Beautiful Things a Lil Bit
By Nana S. Achampong
when I was growing up, my mother was a midwifery teacher; my absent father was a lawyer who did not...
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...
A Review of The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah
By Briana McDonald
(New York: Other Press, 2019)
When asked about the inspirations for her characters, author of The Hundred Wells of Salaga, Ayesha Harruna Attah, shares...
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,...
J.J Rawlings on trial again – In a December 31 musical
Before May 15, 1979, there was no Jerry John Rawlings. Then there was! A 31-year-old Air Force officer standing trial by a court martial...