Book Review | ‘Dear Senthuran’ by Akwaeke Emezi
The author’s fourth book is an honest and searing memoir that provides insight into their life on the margins while being hypervisible to people who often don’t want them to exist.
Stories by: Lethabo Mailula
Book Review | ‘The Prophets’, a tender love story
In his debut offering, Robert Jones Jr has written the book he wanted to read but could find nowhere: a story of queer Black love among slaves.
Book Review | The Death of Vivek Oji
In their third novel, author Akwaeke Emezi uses a death to explore a life in Nigeria that was often confusing, displaced and frowned upon, but also filled with unexpected love.
Book Review | A Fire Like You
In her third book of poems, A Fire Like You, Upile Chisala writes about the personal and the political. She moves from love and intimacy to race and issues around womanhood.
Book Review | I am telling the truth but I am lying
Nigerian-American writer Bassey Ikpi has assembled a compelling body of essays that deal with the delicate complexity of memory, mental illness and truth.