Miracle by Tope Folarin won the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing. Apparently, its from the forthcoming novel The Proximity of Distance.

Ndinda Kioko is the winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2017, fiction category.

The Engineer of Transparent Buildings mmmmmmBeing the text of the document discovered on a doorstep mmmmmmnear City Hall  after the building became transparent   Good girl, these are the thing…

‘She has the most genuine intentions of any woman out there.’

‘We are not burying one of us in snow.’ The winning entry for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.

My friends in the camp are known by the inscriptions written on their t-shirts. Acapulco wears a t-shirt with the inscription, Acapulco. Sexy’s t-shirt has the inscription Tell Me I’m Sexy. Paris’s...

Fiction: “How could any of us have imagined, in the innocence of those days, that there had been this darkness at the school?”

MR ADESINA, whose trousers were always dirty at the pockets and the buttocks, but still so ironed that the buttocks shone, was the inter-science and biology teacher who taught us that blood contain…

The 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize has just been announced! Our #WeekendRead, "The Worme Bridge" by Cat Hellisen, comes from SSDA's third anthology, Water, New Short Fiction from Africa,  and is...

Ayobami Adebayo   ‘Mr. Man, you are very smart.’ The officer leans across the table, wraps his hands around my neck, tightens his grip. I can’t breathe. I open my mouth, still can’t breathe. I try to...