Akwaeke & Yagazie Emezi, two powerful Nigerian sisters have been featured on VOGUE – February 2018 issue – and were photographed by Annie Leibovitz! A short article on the website: When Yagazie Emezi was about six, she was hospitalized after being run over…
Happy New Year!!! We are as excited as you are and can’t wait to see what 2018 has in store for us. We at THE AFRO READER community are looking forward to reading Akwaeke Emezi’s FRESH WATER! These are the…
One of our favourite African Literature is THE SECRET LIVES OF BABA SEGI’S WIVES BY LOLA SHONEYIN. The humour is refreshing; but what is even more refreshing is the candid approach to infidelity. Lola Shoneyin once wrote in The Guardian: The…
Literary enthusiast, Victor Adedayo wrote a letter (published HERE – CLICK TO READ) to his friend Okechukwu, thanking him for recommending Daughters Who Walked This Path by Yejide Kilanko. Okechukwu has written back. Enjoy! Dear Victor, It would only be right…
Author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes an “open letter” to DELTA AIRLINE on her Facebook Page. As lovers of Adichie, we share in her frustration… Read: DEAR DELTA AIRLINES, YOU MUST DO BETTER Seven years ago, I sent this letter to Delta…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an author and so much more. She has since built a niche for herself in the fashion industry. The author, in a recent article titled – MY FASHION NATIONALISM – wrote about why she decided to start her…
When I was younger, my grandmother would make me sit on her lap and read stories from my Macmillan English Reader to her. I read Ali and Simbi, Edet lives in Calabar and Mr. Sade the Farmer. I also read…
If you are a lover of Art, Literature, Poetry and Good Music – THIS IS FOR YOU – COGITATIONS!!! Cogitations is a Spoken Word, and Music concert which seeks to effect change, to foster critical thinking through what is believed…
I remember walking into a bookstore in Port-Harcourt City sometime in October, looking through the various book shelves, I saw Dami Ajayi’s book – CLINICAL BLUES! I read few poems from the collection and made a mental note to reach…
When people looking to start reading African Literature ask us for recommendations we are always quick to scream “THE SECRET LIVES OF BABA SEGI’S WIVES”. Amarachi Agwu, a literary enthusiast, once described it as a candid approach to Infidelity. Now…
