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Celebrate the classic and contemporary cooking of Nigeria, whose food is as rich and diverse as its people. In Nigeria, the word “chop” is all about food and feasting, and Chop Chop gets right to the heart of an incredibly flavourful, complex, and beloved...

“When we gathered in Aburi, Ghana, in August 2024 for the inaugural CANEX Book Factory Creative Writing Workshop, we had a clear purpose: to give emerging African prose writers from the continent and the diaspora a protected space for craft, discipline, and growth. This...

You were promoted for being the best operator, but your instincts are now keeping you in place. You still fix what breaks, still answer faster than anyone else in the room, and still hold the organisation together by being present inside it, which is...

Across Africa, the shift from authoritarian rule to elective civilian government has brought new challenges. Among them is the judiciary’s evolving role in political outcomes. Judges, once constrained arbiters of electoral disputes, have become increasingly unconstrained in determining who holds power—shifting legitimacy from voters...

The book I’d press into the hands of girls and boys, as an inspiration for a future “world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves.” ’Books of the Year, Independent.

Long after Fina has left Sierra Leone for America, memories of a broken initiation still haunt her. She longs to return, to find her grandmother and right the path that has been set for young girls centuries past. Her journey from the streets of...

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis a group of young Nigerian entrepreneurs came together to form The VFD Group, a company that is poised to become a major player in Nigeria’s financial sector. The founders of this company, Nonso Okpala, Adeniyi Adenubi,...

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response.

Ayisha Osori, writer, lawyer and advocate for social justice, ran for the People’s Democratic Party’s ticket to the House of Representatives in 2015 and lost. This is her story.

Contraband Bodies is a debut to be reckoned with. Jide Salawu shines in this personal record of diaspora and a country lost to precarious politics. Mourning home, Salawu deploys gritty language, razor-edge imagery, decolonial poetics, and granular details to highlight the diverse circumstances of...

Binyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author and creative force, remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life. This groundbreaking collection brings together, for the first time, Binyavanga’s pioneering writing on the African continent, including many of his most critically acclaimed pieces,...

Unbound gives voice to a generation that has been culturally, socially and politically underrepresented. But the poets now tell their stories, declaring: “We are here. Our norms and values are valid.” The target audience for this anthology is anyone, regardless of geographical location and...