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Blurb Sixteen year old Lanre Bandele finds solace in his music and dreams of being professional musician. Can dreams come true? Maybe. An...

Blurb Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the...

Blurb A revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating...

Blurb There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have...

Blurb Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against...

Blurb Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother,...

Blurb African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and...

Blurb As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and...

Blurb Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs. Khumalo’s salon, and she is secure in her status until the handsome, smooth-talking Dumisani...

Blurb A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends...

Blurb Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She’s dating Kayode and wants him to be “the one” (perfect, like her dead father)....

Blurb Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the...

Blurb Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives,...

Blurb Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she's too traditional (she's...

Blurb Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the...

Blurb A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully woven that each story flows into...

Blurb Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother’s childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever...

Blurb Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. In her 40s, she has separated from her husband,...