Under Starry Skies

Bring forth a stir as groundbreaking as Tchaikovsky’s outrageous cannons this straight line needs a curve - or sharp turn ...

You wouldn’t listen to a madman With a shrill outburst, powerful And sudden, like a flurry of crow wings And voice just as loud, ...

Masande Ntshanga’s Space is a story that, on face value, doesn’t have much in it. Its title and opening paragraph are suggestive of an e...

Namwali Serpell’s The Sack is an enigmatic story, revealing itself from alternating points of view—that of a narrator, and of ‘the man’....

The sixteenth Caine Prize for African Writing shortlist was recently announced, and as usual, bloggers give their though...

To read Teju Cole’s Open City is to experience an unnerving metamorphosis. I picked it up knowing that it comes highly rated in literary...