The roots of our storytelling
What happens when we stop reading African fiction through European literary history and instead trace its worldmaking through indigenous cosmology?
9 Article(s) by:
Ainehi Edoro
Ainehi Edoro is a Nigerian writer, critic and academic. She is the founder and publisher of the African literary blog Brittle Paper
Reading List: Ainehi Edoro
English Professor and Editor of Brittle Paper, recommends five books she’s been reading.
Gods of Fiction
A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.
This is Nigeria
A group of Nigerian thinkers debate rapper Falz’s take on Childish Gambino’s viral “This Is America.”
Why is the cultural life of Black Panther so derivative?
In the Global North, Africa never inspires radically new terms of representation. It always presents itself as an entity grounded in an anthropological reality.
Aliens in Lagos
The futuristic Lagos of Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel, ‘Lagoon.’
How Nollywood can save African Literature
African writers produce in literary prose — a language and cultural ethos in which they do not live.
A glimpse of what could have been
The fantastical texture of the everyday in E. C. Osondu’s novel, “This House is Not for Sale.”
Passports and nations
The writer Taiye Selasi doesn’t seem to realize there is a difference between identity as a subjective, biographical problem and identity as a legal and political reality.