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My new story has found a home, thanks to The Shallow Tales Review
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Read and enjoy!
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January 31, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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Submissions for the 2026 prize will open soon. Start writing or pitching for your writer friend to.

In the meantime, congratulations, once again, to our shortlisted writers! ✨️

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January 30, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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#booksky

They include my translation of LA BASTARDA by Trifonia Melibea Obono (Equatorial Guinea). 🙏🏽🙏🏽

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January 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Very excited to share that my new children’s book has been released! It’s a classic rainy day story with an African backdrop.

Available on Amazon here a.co/d/fhRdnnY

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January 19, 2026 at 4:27 PM
malingose.bsky.social
New Year, new story. I'm really thrilled to be included in @jay_literature Issue 10 with my story Frigid
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So much rich literature in this issue.
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Current Issue - JAY Lit
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January 1, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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Send in your work, or start writing it, because the world needs to read our folklore. It's the foundation for a new type of fantasy.

And we are ready to put it out there.

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December 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Thank you to everyone who has supported this book, shared it with friends, or sent a kind word my way. Your encouragement keeps this journey beautiful.

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December 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
authorsanyu.bsky.social
It’s so important to me that children see themselves in stories. That’s what keeps me motivated!

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December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Submit your rebellion to submissions@iskanchi.com with the subject line “Iskanchi Magazine Prize.”

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November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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greeniezona.bsky.social Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · Oct 27
La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibra Obono
From Equatorial Guinea
Tr. Lawrence Schimel

Hemmed in by patriarchal expectations of Fang society, Okomo discovers mysterious possibilities of queer life in the margins.
La Bastarda
Check out La Bastarda - <p>This coming-of-age story from Equatorial Guinea chronicles a teenage girl's quest to find out who she is.</p> by Trifonia Melibea Obono and Lawrence Schimel on Bookshop.org ...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Three books in reading Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939, living quietly in Senegal) -- one of the key #AfricanWriters who began publishing in the 60s. The books are not that easy to get hold of, even in libraries. Armah's own publishing house Per Ankh makes them available. /
September 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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August 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel explains the risks to be writer in Equatorial Guinea #Africanwriters
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Guinea Ecuatorial: En el cuello de la palabra.
Ávila Laurel, Avila Laurel, Juan Tomás Ávila
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August 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Nothing beats the smell of freshly printed books. 😌

We've got your next read right here at www.iskanchi.com/product/afri...

And yes, it reads as good as it looks. ✨️

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August 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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July 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Today’s the big day!🥳

Join us LIVE. It's been a rollercoaster of emotions for us, and it was memorable because of the writers and you. That's why we don't want you to miss today's event.

Time: 5PM
Last call to register: bit.ly/45tfc19

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June 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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2 days to go! 🎉
It's going to be a big one. Don’t miss out on this special moment!

Date: 29th June 2025
Time: 5pm
Register: bit.ly/45tfc19

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June 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
iskanchipress.bsky.social
Everyone talks about writing tips, but here are 7 that actually helped authors write consistently:

• Start even when it’s messy
• Don’t just tell me — make me feel it
• Your first draft is SUPPOSED to suck

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May 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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9. Dafe Great – The Black Hand

Nigeria’s Dafe Great is recognized for The Black Hand, a thrilling and genre-defying narrative of power and justice.

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May 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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2. Ezioma Kalu – On Rainy Days I Think of Flowers
Nigerian writer Ezioma Kalu’s lyrical novel On Rainy Days I Think of Flowers earns a spot on the 2025 shortlist!
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May 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 #IskanchiBookPrize shortlist!
These daring, genre-bending manuscripts are redefining what African fiction can be.
Congrats to these brilliant voices from across the continent!

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May 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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A vaguely (not so) random selection of books beloved, enjoyed, or absolutely bowled over by across the decades and in the various incarnations of the #LatelmperialLibrary.

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THE IN-BETWEEN WORLD OF VIKRAM LALL by M.G. Vassanji (2003) "My name is Vikram Lall. I have the distinction of having been numbered one of Africa's most corrupt men . . ." Vikram Lall inhabits an 'in-between world': between his ancestral home in India and the Kenya he loves passionately; between his infamous African past and his uncertain future in exile. In this sweeping and sumptuous novel, M. G. Vassanji weaves a rich tapestry of vivid characters, real and imagined, in a land caught between colonialism and independence, between escape from political terror and a seemingly inevitable return to Africa, a return that may cost Vikram Lall dearly . . .
May 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
acfick72.bsky.social
A vaguely (not so) random selection of books beloved, enjoyed, or absolutely bowled over by across the decades and in the various incarnations of the #LatelmperialLibrary.

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FEATHER WOMAN OF THE JUNGLE by Amos Tutuola (1962) In this novel the people of a Yoruba village gather on ten memorable nights to hear the stories and wisdom of their chief. They learn of his adventures, among them his encounter with the Jungle Witch and her ostrich, his visit to the town of the water people and his imprisonment by the Goddess of Diamonds. Each night the people return, eager to discover if there is a happy ending. Amos Tutuola (1920-1997) was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria. His first novel, THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD, was acquired by T. S. Eliot and published by Faber in 1952.
May 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
acfick72.bsky.social
A vaguely (not so) random selection of books beloved, enjoyed, or absolutely bowled over by across the decades and in the various incarnations of the #LatelmperialLibrary.

🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍

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QUILLS OF DESIRE by Binwell Sinyangwe (1993) Wiza is a very ambitious, highly intelligent student, who is in his final year at school, and determined to follow his brother's example and go to university in the UK. Temperamental, idealistic and passionate, there are many pitfalls on the road to success, as he provokes the hostility of the headmaster and the jealousy of less able colleagues. Finallly they get the better of him and Wiza has to try to adapt either to a world he despises, a world of poverty and underprivilege, or to a world where traditional customs and values prevail. In this book Binwell Sinyangwe has drawn out the pressures and the complexity of choices and values that face many keen but poor young African students in polities riven with postcolonial social and economic inequalities. QUILLS OF DESIRE IS written with clarity, wry humour and compassion. Binwell Sinyangwe is a Zambian novelist who studied industrial economics in Bucharest, and worked in the Zambian public and private sectors.
May 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
acfick72.bsky.social
A vaguely (not so) random selection of books beloved, enjoyed, or absolutely bowled over by across the decades and in the various incarnations of the #LatelmperialLibrary.

🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍

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#AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters
EMERGENCY by Richard Rive (1964) The three days in March 1960 between the Sharpeville shootings and the declaration of the first State of Emergency in apartheid South Africa are crucial ones in the life of Andrew Dreyer, a young Cape Town school teacher who is classified as 'Coloured' by the government. One of six children born in District Six, he ran away the night his mother died, and went to stay with his married sister in the neighbouring middle-class suburb of Walmer Estate. It wasn't until he went to university that he began to shape his own life and grapple with the political issues of his country. By the time of the 1960 troubles, he is involved enough to be pursued by the Special Branch; and goaded by the critical events of late March he finally plunges into direct political action in a moment of personal breakthrough. EMERGENCY has been hailed as "the finest Bildungsroman in our national literature. In form alone it is a masterpiece of controlled structural ironies" (UPFRONT, 5 October 1986). First published in 1964 and banned in South Africa until the late 1980s, this assured, intelligent and entertaining novel was Richard Rive's debut. Richard Rive was the author of WRITING BLACK; ADVANCE, RETREAT; 'BUCKINGHAM PALACE', DISTRICT SIX; and EMERGENCY CONTINUED (written during and set in the 1980s states of emergencies declared by the white supremacist Botha government during the violent death rattle of the apartheid tyranny, and published posthumously in 1990). He also edited the first volume of the letters of Olive Schreiner. He was murdered in his home in 1989. Cover illustration by Tyrone Appollis.
May 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM