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Wole Soyinka vs Caroline Davis—The CIA Controversy by Adekeye Adebajo

May 2, 2022May 2, 2022Adekeye Adebajo2 Comments on Wole Soyinka vs Caroline Davis—The CIA Controversy by Adekeye Adebajo

In 2020, Caroline Davis, a British scholar, now based at England’s University College London, published the book African Literature and…

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African literature should be free to remain ‘a question to itself’—Lebohang Mojapelo reviews The Rise of the African Novel by Mukoma Wa Ngugi

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021Lebohang Mojapelo1 Comment on African literature should be free to remain ‘a question to itself’—Lebohang Mojapelo reviews The Rise of the African Novel by Mukoma Wa Ngugi

In The Rise of the African Novel, Mukoma Wa Ngugi traces the way African literature has been a space to…

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The dialectic of connectedness—remembering Harry Garuba in Ibadan

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020Sanya OshaLeave a Comment on The dialectic of connectedness—remembering Harry Garuba in Ibadan

Sanya Osha remembers the late Harry Garuba, who died earlier this year. Since he passed in February this year, friends…

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Biography & Memoir

Emerging from Chinua Achebe’s shadow: Nigeria’s first generation of post-independence writers and the literary brotherhood of Umuahia

July 2, 2018July 2, 2018Lebohang Mojapelo1 Comment on Emerging from Chinua Achebe’s shadow: Nigeria’s first generation of post-independence writers and the literary brotherhood of Umuahia

This July marks the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s seminal novel Things Fall Apart. Lebohang Mojapelo reviews…

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Read an excerpt from the first full-length biography of Christopher Okigbo, a cult hero for a new wave of young African writers

November 6, 2017The JRB1 Comment on Read an excerpt from the first full-length biography of Christopher Okigbo, a cult hero for a new wave of young African writers

Exclusive to The JRB, an excerpt from the newly published first-ever biography of the Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo: Christopher Okigbo 1930—67, Thirsting…

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