Editor’s Pick: Sanya – An Excerpt
CHAPTER 1 Àjọkẹ́ stirred from sleep and opened her eyes. Darkness shrouded the space around her like a thick cloak and she could barely make... Read more
CHAPTER 1 Àjọkẹ́ stirred from sleep and opened her eyes. Darkness shrouded the space around her like a thick cloak and she could barely make... Read more
Do you remember long ago, when Pa Ozo’s daughter—the one who was in Port Harcourt all those years doing tailoring—returned to the village, and... Read more
Efua Traoré has every reason to be excited. The Nigerian-German writer has a hot new book coming from Masobe, ‘Children of The Quicksands’. Married... Read more
This is why we read – and write – literature: imagine you go on a long journey for work. Your travel companions are fascinating, so you spend the... Read more
The Masobe Books eBookstore boasts of some of the best creative works straight out of Nigeria in the last 2 years. From stories inspired by music, to... Read more
The deaths of more than a million people in Nigeria as a result of the brutal civil war which ended exactly 50 years ago are a scar on the nation’s... Read more
There are theories that suggest, and not without good reason, that African literature in its earliest stages (of recognition) was mostly “protest... Read more
How a self-educated boy rose – via cutting the hair of Lagos’s elite – to become a celebrated photographer who has recorded significant... Read more
January 15th I think my new friend’s fifteen-month-old baby is an alien. I really do, and have done for some time now. Don’t ask me why, I really... Read more
A few years ago, you enjoyed the look of pleasure and sometimes, bonus, on the face of your Managing partner when the company would have been in a fix... Read more