My new story has found a home, thanks to The Shallow Tales Review
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Read and enjoy!
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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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They include my translation of LA BASTARDA by Trifonia Melibea Obono (Equatorial Guinea). 🙏🏽🙏🏽
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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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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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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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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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It’s so important to me that children see themselves in stories. That’s what keeps me motivated!
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Submit your rebellion to submissions@iskanchi.com with the subject line “Iskanchi Magazine Prize.”
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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. /
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Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel explains the risks to be writer in Equatorial Guinea #Africanwriters
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 . . .
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.
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.
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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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.
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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MYSTERIES FROM AYUKABA VILLAGE by Daniel Ojong (2009) These delightful and haunting stories are written from the centre of Cameroonian village life, where tradition and modernity intersect. Ayukaba village is populated by vivid characters who contend with the encroachment of the outside world, but who are also rooted in a rich matrix of local knowledge, beliefs and traditions. This world is subtly touched by 'magic' and by the uncanny. Here, the everyday is extraordinary: past and present meld; real and imagined experiences collide and intermingle; ordinary people perform heroic deeds. At the heart of each tale is a mystery. In one, a loving son completes an impossible journey to his father's funeral, and discovers that the power of sorrow can momentarily challenge the finality of death. In another, two old friends on a hunting trip find their prey grotesquely transformed into a creature that is half man, half beast. In many of the stories, the boundaries between the living and the dead are porous: a long-dead boy is discovered living happily in a neighbouring village; or a river must be appeased with gifts to relinquish the body it has swallowed. Through the evocative interplay of shadow and light, sorrow and laughter, Daniel Ojong combines dark whimsicality and humour with poignant magic realism. Cover illustration by Bambo Sibiya
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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INKINSELA YASEMGUNGUNDLOVU by Sibusiso Nyembezi (1961; translated from isiZulu by Sandile Ngidi as THE RICH MAN OF PIETERMARITZBURG in 2008) Le noveli ixwayisa ngobugebengu. Ixoxa ngoNdebenkulu owayehamba ethi yena usiza abantu ngokubathengisela izinkomo zabo kubelungu bezindali nabamasilaha kanti uyabagebenga. ——— A suave urban swindler invites himself to the village of Nyanyadu in the sleepy hinterland of rural South Africa where he dupes a well-meaning but naive local notable into a deceitful partnership. The promise of untold riches for a community living off the land as apartheid encroaches on their way of life leads almost to disaster. This is the familiar story of a man who has adopted the ways of the 'white man' to further his own nefarious schemes. Yet this tale does not warn about the loss of a culture, but celebrates the sense of community that apartheid assaulted - but failed to break. It is a poignant yet humorous glimpse of a rural way of life that is far from forgotten.
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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![WEDDING SONG by Naguib Mahfouz (1984 [1981]; translated by Olive E. Kenny from AFRAH AL-QUBBAH; edited and revised by Mursi Saad El Din & John Rodenbeck)
This is the story of a theatrical family of Cairo, whose playwright son exposes its most intimate and sordid secrets on the stage in his first play. The story is told four times from four different viewpoints: that of the family acquaintance, the father, the mother, and Abbas, the son, who is the central character. The novel focuses on how time works changes, transforming love into hate, beauty into ugliness, loyalty into treachery, and idealism into debauchery.
Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) wrote over thirty novels and more than a hundred short stories. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. He lived in the Cairo suburb of Agouza with his wife and two daughters.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:liweifjp72sawd2tfklp6egk/bafkreihctamxtjio3keiv4neakkoh3py5zjhqd5d534eoh3xixmipwajti)
WEDDING SONG by Naguib Mahfouz (1984 [1981]; translated by Olive E. Kenny from AFRAH AL-QUBBAH; edited and revised by Mursi Saad El Din & John Rodenbeck) This is the story of a theatrical family of Cairo, whose playwright son exposes its most intimate and sordid secrets on the stage in his first play. The story is told four times from four different viewpoints: that of the family acquaintance, the father, the mother, and Abbas, the son, who is the central character. The novel focuses on how time works changes, transforming love into hate, beauty into ugliness, loyalty into treachery, and idealism into debauchery. Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) wrote over thirty novels and more than a hundred short stories. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. He lived in the Cairo suburb of Agouza with his wife and two daughters.
Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary.
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THE JEALOUS LOVER by Larbi Layachi (1986; dictated to Katherine Harer in English) In his non-fiction book, THE JEALOUS LOVER, Larbi Layachi unsparingly depicts his years as a teenager in Tangier, Morocco. Banished by his stepfather to sleep in a leaky shed where he all but drowns, the boy leaves home. At twelve he sets out on his own, resting at night on café floors, and fishing for a living on the beach. By turns, he smuggles contraband, meets a Spanish girl and falls in love, serves two terms in Tangier jails, oversees a beach café, and vends black market cigarettes in alleys. The troubled life he leads and the men he meets combine to form a vivid tale. THE JEALOUS LOVER continues in the vein of Larbi Layachi's previous best-seller, A LIFE FULL OF HOLES (1964).
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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![WHAT THE DAY OWES THE NIGHT by Yasmina Khadra (2010 [2008]; translated by Frank Wynne from CE QUE LE JOUR DOIT À LA NUIT)
"If a woman loves you, Younes, if she truly loves you, and if you have the wisdom to appreciate this great privilege, then there is no god to touch you."
When Younes is just nine years old his family's livelihood is destroyed and they are forced to find work in the grimly impoverished Algerian slum of Jenane Jato. Obsessively proud yet overwhelmed by the prospect of having to start again, Younes's father reluctantly agrees to entrust him to his brother, a wealthy pharmacist who raises Younes in the vibrant, colourful and affluent European town of Río Salado. Renamed Jonas, he begins a new life and forges a unique friendship with a group of boys, an enduring bond that nothing – not even the Algerian Revolt – will shake.
Yet with the return to Rio Salado of Emilie – a beautiful, beguiling young woman who captures the hearts of all who see her – an epic love story is set in motion that will challenge the complicity of these four boys and force Jonas to confront the burden of having to choose between two worlds: Algerian or European; loyal or selfish; past or present; surrendering to fate or grasping control of his own destiny.
In WHAT THE DAY OWES THE NIGHT, Yasmina Khadra has written a majestic novel of colonial Algeria, a turbulent, passionate, heart-rending tale about a country beset by crisis. Set against the war of independence and a harsh yet mystic landscape, Khadra's dazzling prose and consummate compassion illuminate the terrible rift between lovers, family and friends who love the same country in sometimes incompatible ways and for sometimes very different reasons.
Yasmina Khadra is the nom de
plume of the former Algerian army officer, Mohammed Moulessehoul, who took a feminine pseudonym to avoid submitting his manuscripts for
approval by the army. He is the
author of five other books published
in English. He lives in France.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:liweifjp72sawd2tfklp6egk/bafkreihojynydtabfsntdggxvcknii4dg3s6dul5xngxafvk3d2xs7foai)
WHAT THE DAY OWES THE NIGHT by Yasmina Khadra (2010 [2008]; translated by Frank Wynne from CE QUE LE JOUR DOIT À LA NUIT) "If a woman loves you, Younes, if she truly loves you, and if you have the wisdom to appreciate this great privilege, then there is no god to touch you." When Younes is just nine years old his family's livelihood is destroyed and they are forced to find work in the grimly impoverished Algerian slum of Jenane Jato. Obsessively proud yet overwhelmed by the prospect of having to start again, Younes's father reluctantly agrees to entrust him to his brother, a wealthy pharmacist who raises Younes in the vibrant, colourful and affluent European town of Río Salado. Renamed Jonas, he begins a new life and forges a unique friendship with a group of boys, an enduring bond that nothing – not even the Algerian Revolt – will shake. Yet with the return to Rio Salado of Emilie – a beautiful, beguiling young woman who captures the hearts of all who see her – an epic love story is set in motion that will challenge the complicity of these four boys and force Jonas to confront the burden of having to choose between two worlds: Algerian or European; loyal or selfish; past or present; surrendering to fate or grasping control of his own destiny. In WHAT THE DAY OWES THE NIGHT, Yasmina Khadra has written a majestic novel of colonial Algeria, a turbulent, passionate, heart-rending tale about a country beset by crisis. Set against the war of independence and a harsh yet mystic landscape, Khadra's dazzling prose and consummate compassion illuminate the terrible rift between lovers, family and friends who love the same country in sometimes incompatible ways and for sometimes very different reasons. Yasmina Khadra is the nom de plume of the former Algerian army officer, Mohammed Moulessehoul, who took a feminine pseudonym to avoid submitting his manuscripts for approval by the army. He is the author of five other books published in English. He lives in France.
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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