We’ve seen it all, really. Yet, we still fall into the trap of a single story—every single time. We still think that we are either this or that; we can’t be both; we can’t be everything all at once.
Read MoreJenny Robson was shortlisted for the 2023 Afritondo Short Story Prize. In this interview, she talks about writing and her short story, The Sister-in-law.
Read MoreThe shortlist for the 2023 Afritondo Short Story Prize
Read MoreAs we celebrate International Women’s Day, we appreciate some of the amazing women we have worked with in the last few years. At Afritondo, we champion the works of African women and will continue to do so.
Read MoreHoward Meh-Buh Maximus on getting shortlisted for the 2022 Afritondo Short Story Prize and his writing career
Read MoreThere are no rules, only conventions about what is good writing
Read MoreOur stories are worthy of being told
Read MoreOn the surface, the coup looks like an Igbo plot: almost all its leading plotters were Igbo or Igbo-speaking, almost all its victims were non-Igbo, and Ironsi, who crushed it and became head of state, was Igbo.
Read MorePidgin English as a lingua franca in West Africa has united people, creating a bond that transcends borders.
Read MoreI get a wonderful greedy feeling in my stomach that POOP Matters will be back here once the opposition leader gets into power and gets drunk with it and morphs into another problematic dictator.
Read MoreWe don’t stop to ask why everything we do must be in service of a goal. Some things do not have a point, only existing for pleasure and delight, and that is part of the magic of being alive.
Read MoreI can imagine him, my father, some pride in his voice, informing his friend that his son, a boy they had watched grow up, had left home.
Read MoreThey will forbid their people from voting for anyone that is not Musa. The subjects will take the news to their four wives. Their wives will tell their neighbours. The neighbours will tell their children, and the children will write ‘Sai Musa’ on every wall they see on every street.
Read MoreMorality, then, is a weapon, and generations of Africans have been indoctrinated into its famed cult. You should then be far from startled that the mere mention of homosexuality, although practised in veiled quarters for traditional, spiritual, or aesthetic purposes, is never given a fair hearing
Read MoreDesta’s winning story, Ethio-Cubano, is a collection of memories where Cuban and Ethiopian cultures collide.
Read MoreI swear if you throw a stone at random in Hillbrow, you are likely to hit a Zimbabwean. Or some other African. Who that stone hits is up to fate!
Read MoreIn this essay, Dr Alloh examines the plight of international students in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreAs a teenager, I grew up on a diet of popular fiction, and Kalu Okpi, even more than James Hadley Chase, initiated me into the world of the word.
Read MoreExamining the roles of feminist women during the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria
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