Angola: New Books | War, Manhood and Angolan Society
[New Frame] Anthropologist John Spall examines how combat affected the gender, sexual relations and religious orientation of a generation of Angolans recruited to fight between 1975 and 2002.
Gambia: The Girl With the Louding Voice
[The Point] "Nigeria is a country located in West Africa": so begins the prologue of Abi Daré's debut novel. The prologue is a brief excerpt from The Book of Nigerian Facts, supposedly published in 2014. Though this book is fictional, the facts it gives are real. It states: "As the 6th largest crude oil exporter in the world, and with a GDP of $568.5 billion, Nigeria is the richest country in Africa. Sadly, over 100 million Nigerians live in poverty, surviving on less than $1 a day." It seems a curious place to
Zimbabwe: Kwachirere Previews Diaspora Dreams, a Novel By Andrew Chatora
[This is Africa] Memory Chirere, a writer and literature lecturer with the University of Zimbabwe previews Diaspora Dreams, Andrew Chatora's debut novel. It's not the usual tale about a young Zimbabwean coming to the UK because of the crisis back home. Chatora rather "takes a very courageous and startling detour with this new book".
Africa: Book Review - a Pan-African Poetry of Belonging
[Daily Maverick] In his latest poetry collection, Sihle Ntuli's acute observations of history and place show that belonging is layered, fraught with problems and often unharmonious.
South Africa: New Books - In, Against, Beyond Corona
[New Frame] Opening with a poem by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the Church Land Programme's response to the Covid-19 pandemic thinks deeply about how to resist and rebel to create a life-enhancing world.