Phases of African Postcolonial Literature
BY NASRULLAH MAMBROL
African literature, an area where the relationship of the artist with the land is absolutely recognised and understood, covers a huge range of...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo – books podcast
In this podcast recorded in 2012, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares why she admires the 'old-fashioned social realism' of the Ghanaian writer's No Sweetness...
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...
Adabraka: Stories from the Centre of the World [2018]
In February 2018, the #AidooCentre made a nationwide call for submissions of short stories for its pilot anthology Adabraka: Stories from the Centre of the...
Acculturation and Language Acquisition
Acculturation and Language Acquisition: A Look at Schumann's Acculturation Model
By Jacob Chizzo, Islamic Saudi Academy, Alexandria, Virginia. Submitted June 30, 2002
Abstract
This is a brief overview of the...
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 Thousand Words
By Kofi Konadu Berko
I loved pictures. I liked the clicks and the flashes with the poses and smiles. The flashes reminded me of lightening...
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...
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro
Nana S. Achampong
Mar. 12, 2012
valentine's day? some coital travesty, valentine.
that senseless season to sell passes with design
tortures my frail senses like yesterday's menses
in my...
Thoughts on contemporary African Literary Review
By Tony E. Afejuku
19 February 2017 | 3:10 am
The Guardian, Nigeria
What is the correct state of contemporary African Literary criticism? This is certainly not...