• Anna S. Reumert

In her latest novel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie examines the contradictions of women’s desires, while leaving her own narrative blind spots exposed.

• Sakiru Adebayo

In Nigeria, to be an emigrant is to possess illustrious social capital and a badge of honor that is not only reserved for you, but also for your family.

• Lily Saint

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel, 'Americanah,' was the 2017 choice for the “One Book, One New York” campaign. Is the campaign necessarily a good thing?

• Sisonke Msimang

A brief history of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, stanning and the trap of #blackgirlmagic.

• Elliot Ross

The historian Simon Stephens discovers a meme in the book covers of novels set in or with African themes.

• Elliot Ross

The writer, Chimamanda Adichie, lines up the homophobic arguments against rights for gay people and knocks them down one by one.

• Elnathan John

If a journalist reports on the unsavory parts of Nigeria, attack them on Twitter. For reporting while white. There's no comeback when you bring race into it.

• Z’étoile Imma

Film adaption of an epic novel is a fine and difficult art; one that the creators of "Half of a Yellow Sun" did not pull off.

• Zachary Rosen

The words and images found in the Chronic have a tendency to defy simple consumption.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

With this, I am bringing back Weekend Special for all those things we don't have the time to blog about or say more than the required 140 characters on Twitter.

• Gregory Mann

The French news magazine, Courrier International, did a special issue: "Afrique 3.0." We had a closer look. Is it any good?

• Elliot Ross

Africa isn't a brand and we find the clamor for "positive news" from Africa inane and condescending.

• Yewande Omotoso

A South African writer gets invited to the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria. Her main takeaway: writing is an act of faith; an ancient form of prayer.