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      • Fiction
        March 2019

        Do Not Say It's Not Your Country

        by Nnamdi Oguike

        Do Not Say It's Not Your Country is filled with fascinating characters: a South African woman and her children crowding an iron shack in Blikkiesdorp; a Madagascan slum boy who gets a job as a cook in Antananarivo; a shy Sierra Leonean girl who falls in love with a sly fisherman; a wily Nigerian prophet whose tricks are exposed; a Kenyan couple back in their old ways after confirmation in church – and many more. With themes such as love and innocence, terrorism and slavery, this brilliant book takes you on a tour of Africa and beyond, to meet more of humanity in its beauty and its pain.

      • Fiction
        November 2018

        The Colour of a Thing Believed

        by Bura-Bari Nwilo

        The Colour of a Thing Believed is a collection of 13 independent stories with powerful and daring themes that are laid out with all carefulness for storytelling and skilfulness of craft that enables easy flow and connection of what can be termed fictional realities. The characters are scattered around African societies, with hope or despair in their bags. The colour of what they believe in becomes what keeps these characters going and reshapes their paths into what becomes a conclusion or a life lived. This is a book about adulthood and owning up to situations that can be funny or not. The characters are not morally charged but are full of flaws and are eager to live their poignant lives as wilful creatures or fated elements. Using humour, myth, and elements of tragedy, these stories are defining of a particular kind of contemporary realities.

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