[Excerpt from Elnathan John's new book, "Becoming Nigerian; A Guide", published by Cassava Republic press] The biggest mistake any person interested in politics can make is to...

Last December, precisely on the 17th of December 2015, I opened an online book kiosk The idea of the kiosk at that time was supposed to help a few writers I know sell their books...

hen theMagunga Bookstore - Kenya’s online shop for African reads- first came up online, Of Goats and Poisoned Oranges author, Ciku Kimeria, termed it as the “African version...

For as long as we can remember book clubs have existed, enabling people who love to read, to come together, read a book and discuss key highlights In some rare occasions, some...

Literary festivals are always fun to attend The point of such festivals is to meet your favorite authors, listen to them read from their works, get books signed, launch others,...

Originally published in the Sunday Nation on 14th June 2015 Most of us spend a lot of our time on the internet, all thanks to the advent of affordable smart phones, power banks...

I attended the last Ake Arts and Book Festival   and of course, asides the intellectual discourse that took place and was the main source of my interest, one of the major things...

I met you this week It occurred to me that I have met you (or some version of you) many times beforeI could have met you at a university, led you in a workshop, chatted to you at...

(Republished with author’s consent from his personal blog, Writerphilic) I was one of the participants of the 2015 Caine Prize Writers Workshop which was held in Elmina, a...

Originally published by The Sunday Nation Newspaper When the Jalada Africa’s second anthology, Sext Me, came out last year, I shared Linda Musita’s Kudinyana on my Facebook...

Harriet Anena is not as loud as many of my poet friends At face value, she is a normal Ugandan beauty with the air that acutely contrasts her view of the world around her But when...

Discussing culture is like walking mindlessly into a minefield It is a subject that attracts unwarranted emotive outbursts especially when it converges at its most sensitive apex:...