4+ day, 21+ 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   (195+ words) Brittle Paper WATCH: A Look Back at Brittle Paper’s Inaugural Literary Festival On 29 August, we held the inaugural Brittle Paper Literary Festival for Aspiring Writers, and 283 readers and writers showed up to celebrate the emerging voices at the heart of…...

3+ day, 21+ 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, 16+ 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, 19+ hour ago   (94+ words) by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh Events• Interviews• News• The Decade Project Most sessions are free to attend with limited seating and reservation recommended, apart from Friday’s Let the Poets Govern, which requires a separate ticket. Registration and full program details are…...

5+ day, 19+ 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…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (961+ words) Brittle Paper The Inaugural Brittle Paper Literary Festival Was a Homecoming for the Writers We’ve Watched Grow The day opened with Session I: Brittle Paperians, a two-part reading showcasing writers who found their first audience on Brittle Paper’s pages. The…...

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   (399+ words) PHOTOS: Bolu Babalola’s Real-Life Love Story Gets the Vogue Treatment! Brittle Paper The story of how they met has the texture of one of her own plots. On a January evening in Lagos during “Detty December,” a stranger at a…...

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…...