We’ve seen it all, really. Yet, we still fall into the trap of a single story—every single time. We still think that we are either this or that; we can’t be both; we can’t be everything all at once.

A conversation with Alex Kadiri, 2023 Afritondo Short Story Prize shortlist

In this interview, Ayo Awoyungbo talks about writing, his writing process and getting shortlisted for the 2023 Afritondo Short Story Prize

Jenny Robson was shortlisted for the 2023 Afritondo Short Story Prize. In this interview, she talks about writing and her short story, The Sister-in-law.

Enit’Ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya, shortlisted for the 2023 Afritondo Short Story Prize, talks about writing his story story, The Anatomy Of Flying Things

Writing in South Africa, it sometimes feels impossible to escape race

Howard Meh-Buh Maximus on getting shortlisted for the 2022 Afritondo Short Story Prize and his writing career

Somto speaks about his writing and his shortlisted speculative fiction, A Girl is Blood, Spirit, & Fire, in this interview with Muna.

Our stories are worthy of being told

On the surface, the coup looks like an Igbo plot: almost all its leading plotters were Igbo or Igbo-speaking, almost all its victims were non-Igbo, and Ironsi, who crushed it and became head of state, was Igbo.

What I really want/ is for you to let me be

I wanted to say I wasn't a big girl. I was only eleven years old! Eleven was still a child.

there was a breeze that day. / The day the Oba’s artisan / began to model Okukor / using his fine metal comb.

Morality, then, is a weapon, and generations of Africans have been indoctrinated into its famed cult. You should then be far from startled that the mere mention of homosexuality, although practised in veiled quarters for traditional, spiritual, or aesthetic purposes, is never given a fair hearing

A poem on Africa by Yewande Adebowale

Abdulrahman’s satire on #EndSARS paints a history of bad governance in Nigeria.

But specially, I pray for the people of Malawi especially those of Mtengowathenga parish, whom I cannot wait to see again.

It is this faithfulness to the African tongue that sets Ngugi apart from his bourgeois peers like Wole Soyinka.

A poem by U.A Edwardson on Africa

I look to the diaspora for black America’s future rather than finding redemption in the United States.