4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (997+ words) by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh When a client asks for an urgent meeting and then turns up dead, Bobby suspects there is more to the death than an accident. His investigation leads him to a church where the victim had been…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (420+ words) Brittle Paper Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún Is Making a Documentary on Onitsha Market Literature, Titled Life Turns Man Up and Down Between roughly 1947 and 1966, clerks, traders, teachers, and school-leavers in Onitsha wrote short books, romance, courtroom drama, political biography, advice…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (388+ words) Brittle Paper Macondo Literary Festival 2026, themed “Ink, Sea, Silence,” will take place in Nairobi from September 18–20, 2026 The Macondo Literary Festival returns to Nairobi for its sixth edition, running September 18–20, 2026, under the theme Ink, Sea, Silence, a frame built around Africa’s…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (385+ words) by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh Your collections respond to some of Nigeria’s most pressing realities. What does it mean to write poetry in a country that constantly gives its writers new reasons for alarm? All three collections engage with the past…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (515+ words) Brittle Paper Two Nigerian Poets, Tolu Oloruntoba and Othuke Umukoro, Shortlisted for the 2026 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry The finalists for the 2026 Walcott Prize are out! Two Nigerian poets have made the finalist list for the 2026 Derek Walcott Prize for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (313+ words) brittlepaper.com Modjaji Books Brings Together 19 Poets from Across Southern Africa to Release Gathered Seams Modjaji Books has released Gathered Seams, a poetry anthology gathering nineteen poems from women writers across Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa. Edited by…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1647+ words) by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh Nigerian literature isn’t new to dysfunctional families, and perhaps this is because family is such a prized institution in Africa. In Nigeria especially, it is often the source of our conversational themes. Tolani Akinola’s Leave Your…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (212+ words) Brittle Paper Zimbabwean Author Blessing Musariri Stands as the Only African Finalist for the $50,000 2026 Kirkus Prize Blessing Musariri has made the shortlist for the 2026 Kirkus Prize, with her young adult novel When It’s Your Turn for Midnight selected as a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (327+ words) Brittle Paper Koleka Putuma Nominated 2026 Featured Poet as Poetry Africa Marks its 30th Anniversary Edition Putuma’s body of work has always resisted staying in one lane. Across three poetry collections, a children’s book, and several plays, she has treated the body…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (165+ words) Below is the full synopsis, for anyone willing to look past the cover. MARRIAGE WAS NEVER SADE’S IDEA. Sade became a wife twice over. First, to cover a shame that was never hers to carry. Then again, because apparently, a…...