After a stroke, Binyavanga Wainaina and his lover travel to Nairobi to reconcile with his father. ‘I cannot talk, my tongue is swollen and we are laughing.’

Let us not even dream of speaking, no For the stars are luminous phones In the palms of night. ─ Rolli I am helpless to this golden twinkling at sundown: this architecture of clouds, dyed into a line...

In "The Man Who Wears the Seasons," Nigerian author Jide Badmus explores the struggles and trials that we all face in life. It shows us the human in us.

The Devil made a mirror. A physicist broke it and shards fell through reality and changed everything forever.

AiW Guest Stephanie Bosch Santana. Traces of Binyavanga Wainaina’s address, “I am a Pan-Africanist, not an Afropolitan”, delivered at September’s African Studies Association UK 2012 con…

The 31-year-old musician, actor and writer left South Africa after being threatened with death and damnation. On “You Will Not Die,” he wrestles with love, faith and country.

Death walked in, taking a seat at the table as the kettle came to a boil. The woman silently wheeled herself over to the drain board to fetch another mug. As she moved, the light danced across...

We are always participating when we read Toni Morrison. During a quiet lull, the Narrator will remember—“And another damn thing!” Or in the middle of a flashback, she will parse a gesture—“That is...

By Amatesiro Dore Eyimofe Emiko looked forward to being a mother-in-law to the bride of her only son but expectations were terminated when Femi asked a boy to his senior prom. Before their first...

Following the outrage displayed by the Nigerian’s LGBTQ community, writer Nelson CJ examines the possibility of it serving as the catalyst of a cultural revolution.

THE university campus in Nsukka was full of ixora, and it was beside one of the trimmed hedges in our Faculty of Arts, stoic, green tables with red blossoms, that Nnaemeka first spoke to me, igniting...

The idea that art promotes empathy has become a platitude. This idea is particularly prevalent when it comes to those works of art described as “narrative”: stories, novels, TV shows, movies, comics....

The JRB presents 'Njuzu', a new short story by TL Huchu, excerpted from AfroSFv3. AfroSFv3 Edited by Ivor W Hartmann Storytime, 2018 ~~~ Njuzu Water looks the same everywhere. It's only the backgro...

I only started actively thinking of how and to what extent queer characters are represented in futuristic African literature earlier this year, after reading TJ Benson’s We Won’t Fade Into Darkness –...

A short story by Troy Onyango. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize and is included in the anthology "Hotel Africa"

Hyacinth Ike planned to die on a Friday because it felt right that he complete his life on a day when other people tidied up their office desks for the week and headed for nightclubs, bachelor...

‘Every person has their own secrets, but Margaret Roe had Havilah Brown’s.’ The winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017 for the Pacific.

Can an image capture the horror of generations of repression and resistance, and is it a photojournalist's job to try?

Do not pray to Jesus, Buddha or Mohammed to come and restore the world, for this is the work of the human family. We are the ones we have been waiting for.

the girl does not want her child to inherit any of her gowns // so she set herself on fire.

Water was a good thing. I knew that from the first day I was born in that seedy bush on the outskirts of town, on that dry harmattan morning. It was the day a young man with an uncombed afro and a …

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