Monthly Archives: August 2023

In the House with Fela Kuti, by Christy Alexander Hallberg

Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the award-winning novel ‘Searching for Jimmy Page’ (Livingston Press, 2021) and host of Rock is Lit, the first and only podcast devoted to rock novels, from Pantheon Podcast Network. She is a Teaching Professor of English at East Carolina University and serves as Senior Associate Editor of ‘North…

The crooning writer, by Moses Magadza

Tee Ngugi, the eldest of Ngugi’s offspring is a writer, columnist, and singer-songwriter of note. His short fiction, essays, and commentaries have appeared in several publications including New Orleans Review, St Petersburg Review, Kwani, Brittle Paper, Timbuktu, New Black Magazine, Jahazi, and The East African, among others.

Jacana Media Publishes new Mlalazi novel

The much-anticipated novel by Christopher Mlalazi is now here, published by Jacana Media (South Africa). “‘There is something I’ve never told you about our king,’ Father was saying as we walked around the palisade. We were three abreast, and I was in the middle. He looked at me. ‘Even Guduza doesn’t know about this too,…