#arinze ifeakandu

[queerafricans]

“Here are honourable mentions in my to be read pile that I think are worth mentioning and of course, reading. Comment with more books by and about queer Nigerians that you'd like me to read in time for Pride 2025!”

NIGERIAN #PRIDE READING LIST PART II 🌈

[randomberlinchick]

Arinze Ifeakandu wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘kaleidoscopic reflection of queer life in Nigeria’ | Books | The Guardian

Oh wow, this sounds like a must read!! 👏🏾📖👏🏾

[jamesmurualiterary]

Arinze Ifeakandu wins Dylan Thomas Prize 2023.

Arinze Ifeakandu was named winner of the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2023 on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer who became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39. The International Dylan Thomas Prize aimed at encouraging raw creative talent worldwide was set up by the Swansea University in his honour. The…

[sixbucks]

A Complete List of the 2023 LAMBDA Literary Awards Winners and Finalists

Congratulations to this years "Lammy" Award winners and finalists! In line with Lambda Literary's mission to advocate for LGBTQ writers, the awards are a way to amplify some of the best writing by queer authors today. More than 1,350 literary works were submitted this year across 25 categories of LGBTQ+ literature, so these books faced some steep competition.

Kick off your own Pride Month Reading Challenge by stocking up on these winning and finalist books! Use promotional code PRIDE23 at check-out to get 20% off these books throughout the month of June.

Bisexual Nonfiction

The Winner: Appropriate Behavior by Maria San Filippo

Finalists:

See why the title essay of this book went viral on the Paris Review website back in 2019.

"The book brings that same frank, funny gaze to bear on a succession of other doomed romances, mining them for complicated truths about how the love stories we inherit, consume and tell come to shape our experience and expectations. Think of it as rehab for road-weary romantics." —The Guardian

Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk by John Brady McDonald (not carried by Tertulia)

Never Simple: A Memoir by Liz Scheier

Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy by Rachel Krantz

Lesbian Fiction

The Winner: Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang

Finalists:

Locus Magazine called this finalist for the 2022 National Book Award an "extraordi­nary literate and structurally inventive novel about female sexuality, cruelty, desire, and trauma that echoes the work of Lovecraft and Melville. A book this good, this devas­tating, should factor on all the award lists..."

Big Girl: A Novel by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel by Julia Armfield

Gay Fiction

The Winner: The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan

Finalists:

Author Andrew Sean Greer called this book "Full of joy and righteous anger, sex and straight talk, brilliant storytelling and humor... A spectacularly researched Dickensian tale with vibrant characters and dozens of famous cameos, it is precisely the book we've needed for a long time."

Call Me Cassandra by Marcial Gala

God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu

Hugs and Cuddles by João Gilberto Noll

Lesbian Memoir/Biography

The Winner: Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz

This thriller/sci-fi mash-up was named a best book of the year by NPR.

"In the end, The Paradox Hotel succeeds as both a mystery and as a story involving time travel. Do you want head-spinning theories on the flow of time and what it might do to people and places? You’ll find both in abundance here. But you’ll also find a resourceful, haunted protagonist pushing herself to the limit to uncover the truth behind an impossible case—one that eventually leads her to a conclusion that satisfies both of the genres from which this novel emerged." —Tor.com

Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong

Bisexual Fiction

The Winner: Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste

Finalists:

Meet Us by the Roaring Sea by Akil Kumarasamy

Mother Ocean Father Nation by Nishant Batsha

Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman

Stories No One Hopes Are about Them by A.J. Bermudez

Transgender Fiction

The Winner: The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

Finalists:

All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein

Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham

Manywhere by Morgan Thomas

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane

LGTBQ+ Young Adult

The Winner: The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

Finalists:

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica by Angeline Jackson with Susan McClelland

Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson

LGTBQ+ Middle Grade

The Winner: Nikhil Out Loud by Maulik Pancholy

Finalists:

Answers In the Pages by David Levithan

Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff

Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One by Maggie Horne

The Civil War of Amos Abernathy by Michael Leali

LGTBQ+ Children's Book

The Winner: Mighty Red Riding Hood by Wallace West

Finalists:

A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin by Carol Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders

Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson

Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle by Nina LaCour

The Sublime Ms. Stacks by Robb Pearlman

Transgender Nonfiction

The Winner: The Third Person by Emma Grove

Finalists:

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili

Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York by Jeremiah Moss

The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich

LGTBQ+ Nonfiction

The Winner: The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin by Hafizah Augustus Geter

Finalists:

And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan

Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson

Lesbian Poetry

The Winner: As She Appears by Shelley Wong

Finalists:

Beast at Every Threshold by Natalie Wee

Concentrate by Courtney Faye Taylor

Prelude by Brynne Rebele-Henry

Yearn by Rage Hezekiah

Gay Poetry

The Winner: Some Integrity by Padraig Regan

Finalists:

Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones

Brother Sleep by Aldo Amparán

Pleasure by Angelo Nikolopoulos

Super Model Minority by Chris Tse

Bisexual Poetry

The Winner: Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes by Nicky Beer

Finalists:

50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse by Karyna McGlynn

Dereliction by Gabrielle Octavia Rucker

Indecent Hours by James Fujinami Moore

Meat Lovers by Rebecca Hawkes

Transgender Poetry

The Winner: MissSettl by Kamden Ishmael Hilliard

Finalists:

A Dead Name That Learned How to Live by Golden

A Queen in Bucks County by Kay Gabriel

All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran

Emanations by Prathna Lor

LGTBQ+ Anthology

The Winner: OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture by Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross

Finalists:

Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology edited by Michael Walsh

This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities Second Edition by Laura Erickson-Schroth

Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin

Gay Memoir/Biography

The Winner: High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez

Finalists:

All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir by Seán Hewitt

An Angel in Sodom by Jim Elledge

Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York by Ron Goldberg

I’m Not Broken by Jesse Leon

LGTBQ+ Mystery

The Winner: Dirt Creek: A Novel by Hayley Scrivenor

Finalists:

A Death in Berlin by David C Dawson

And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling

Dead Letters from Paradise by Ann McMan

Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen

LGTBQ+ Comics

The Winner: Mamo by Sas Milledge

Finalists:

A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings: A Graphic Memoir by Will Betke-Brunswick

Gay Giant by Gabriel Ebensperger

Other Ever Afters by Melanie Gillman

The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle

Lesbian Romance

The Winner: The Rules of Forever by Nan Campbell

Finalists:

Hard Pressed by Aurora Rey

If I Don’t Ask by E. J. Noyes

Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond

Southbound and Down by K.B. Draper

Gay Romance

The Winner: I’m So Not Over You by Kosoko Jackson

Finalists:

Forever After by Marie Sinclair (not carried by Tertulia)

Forever, Con Amor by A.M. Johnson

Just One Night by Felice Stevens

Two Tribes by Fearne Hill

LGTBQ+ Romance and Erotica

The Winner: Kiss Her Once For Me: A Novel by Alison Cochrun

Finalists:

A Lady’s Finder by Edie Cay

Loose Lips: A Gay Sea Odyssey by Joseph Brennan

Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett

LGTBQ+ Drama

The Winner: Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方 by Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)

Finalists:

Duecentomila by kai fig taddei

Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic by Sikivu Hutchinson

The Show on the Roof Book by Tom Ford, Music and Lyrics by Alex Syiek (not carried by Tertulia)

Wolf Play by Hansol Jung, Samuel French

 LGTBQ+ Studies

The Winner: Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics by Darieck Scott

Finalists:

Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer by Mairead Sullivan

Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness by Marlon B. Ross

Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang

There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life by Jafari S. Allen

[sweatflame]

books are

- a "working life" by eileen myles

- shiner by maggie nelson

- the year of magical thinking by joan didion

- god's children are little broken things by arinze ifeakandu

- while we were dreaming by clemens meyer

me, sticky, bag of five books, nasty nice keychain, sweat running from under my binder, chapped lips, summer stockholm, grief brain, old emo playlist, commuting between the best friends anyone has ever had, 25, early july 2023

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Audiobooks with Queer Nigerian Protagonists

Fave Five: Audiobooks with Queer Nigerian Protagonists

This post is sponsored by OrangeSky Audio in honor of the publication of God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu, narrated by Mirron Willis! The audiobook edition includes an exclusive introduction voiced by the author. These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness, and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in…

[vfterluna]

If this was love, I thought, why did I feel so mired, so squeezed out of air? Why had we wound up here, struggling to breathe, restless in each other's presence? It was strange, this; to imagine, now, that there were times, had been times, when we both felt content in each other's company.

— “What the Singers Say about Love” from God’s Children are Little Broken Things, Arinze Ifeakandu

[relnicht]

you can't keep talking about buying gay books and not say the titles 👀 (I want to know please :D )

I bought two Dutch books:) One is called 'Je mag wel bang zijn maar niet laf' by Toni Boumans and it's a biography of a Frisian family and some of them went into the resistance in WW2 and some of those were gay. I also bought 'Lieve Ganymedes: Homo-erotische gedichten uit de middeleeuwen' which has Latin homoerotic poetry from the Middle Ages with a facing Dutch poetic translation, by Stijn Praet.

I also recently bought 'God's Children are Little Broken Things' by Arinze Ifeakandu, those are queer stories set in Nigeria. I read the first story and I thought it was good. I like how idk frank contemporary gay writing by men is idk. He said he likes Garth Greenwell and I think the book of his that I read has the same frankness. And I got the Queer Tattoo book from my partner for my birthday:) They always buy me expensive queer books haha:) (ty❤️).

And I keep seeing ads for Len&Cub: A Queer History. It's like, they were together in the early 20th c and one of them was keen on taking photos so I think it's the photos and some context and things about their lives that are in the book?

I also bought myself some other books earlier in summer (like Bitterhall and the Bad Gays book) and I'm also wanting to read more Christopher Isherwood idk. Also Look Down in Mercy by Walter Baxter and some other books idr right now:)

[lesliecafferty]

What is lost.

Now, when he watched her, he could not shake off the feeling that something essential had been squeezed out, could not stop blaming himself for it. Maybe if he were more resolute, maybe if he did not let the wind toss him every which way, he would have insisted that she go to school first, would have made her father contribute half the money to fan her dream. Now, they had Aisha, and school fees, and rent, and NEPA bills, and it seemed she had folded her dream and tucked it at the bottom of her box, together with her certificates and medals and old photographs. Occasionally, she brought out those things and stared at them and caressed them, her demeanor charged with longing, and he imagined, in those moments, that she was mourning something lost and irreplaceable, that she hated him but did not know it yet. —“The Dreamer’s Litany,” Arinze Ifeakandu

[licollyfrelot]

The Goddess of Mtwara and Other Stories

The Goddess of Mtwara and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2017 (Interlink, 2017)

Ges i’r gyfrol hon yn anrheg o’r chwedlonol City Lights Bookshop yn San Fransisco. Dwi ddim yn dewis straeon byrion, fel rheol, ond ma na rywbeth neis am gael stori gyfan mewn ychydig dudalennau, i gael treulio cyfnod mor fyr gyda chymeriadau a sefyllfaoedd ac eto ymgolli yn eu byd am bach. Mae’r gyfrol hon yn cynnwys y straeon a gyrhaeddodd rhestr fer gwobr Caine, i sgwennwyr o Affrica, yn ogystal â chasgliad o straeon o weithdy oedd yn gysylltiedig â’r wobr hefyd. 

Yr hyn sy’n ddiddorol, ac eto’n heriol, am gasgliad o straeon byrion gan wahanol awduron yw fod rhywun yn darllen pethau sydd ddim byd tebyg i bethau y bydden i fel darllenydd yn ei ddewis. Mae’n beth da, mae’n siwr, i wthio ffiniau a darllen rhywbeth gwahanol - roedd na stori arswyd o fath (stori llawn tensiwn gydag elfennau goruwchnaturiol, digon fel arswyd i fi), straeon rhyfeddol, straeon teuluol, a gymaint o wahanol arddulliau sgwennu. Roedd rhai, yn amlwg, yn apelio ata i yn fwy nag eraill.

O’r pump oedd ar y rhestr fer, yr un oedd yn sefyll uwch y lleill i fi oedd God’s Children are Little Broken Things gan Arinze Ifeakandu o Nigeria. Mae’r stori fer (hir) hon wedi’i rhannu i wahanol adrannau ac yn darlunio perthynas hoyw mewn gwlad lle mae caru person o’r un rhyw â chi yn erbyn y gyfraith, ac yn gallu peri i chi golli eich bywyd. Drwy’r stori gyfan mae’r perygl yma’n isdestun eglur, ac yn amlwg yn effeithio ar berthynas y ddau brif gymeriad: mae cadw’r peth yn gyfrinach yn codi pob math o fwganod i’r ddau. Mae’r portread o’r berthynas - o’r edrychiad cyntaf i’r ffrae fawr i’r cymodi - yn fanwl a naturiol, ac yn fwriadol yn pwysleisio’r cysylltiad emosiynol rhwng y ddau ddyn - y cysylltiadau emosiynol hynny sy’n gyffredin i bob perthynas. Mae cyhoeddi’r stori yn ei hun yn weithred wleidyddol, a’r portread gwych o berthynas rhwng dau gariad, a’r hyn sy’n digwydd o’u cwmpas, yn bwerus ac emosiynol.

Roedd Who Will Greet You At Home gan Nneka Arimah, y stori gyntaf yn y gyfrol, yn un o’r straeon rhyfedd hynny sydd bron yn arswydus - roedd e’n sicr yn fyd na fyddwn i’n awyddus i aros ynddo yn rhy hir. Dyma fyd lle mae merched yn gwneud babanod i’w hunain allan o beth bynnag maen nhw’n medru - mwd, gwellt, papur - ac mae’r baban hwnnw yn byw am flwyddyn yn ei ffurf gyntaf cyn troi’n faban o gig a gwaed, os yw’r fam yn medru ei gadw’n fyw. Mae’r prif gymeriad yn trio a thrio i greu babanod - ond mae na rywbeth yn mynd o’i le bob tro. Mae hi’n benderfynol o beidio cael baban pridd fel yr oedd hithau, ac yn trio bob math o ddeunyddiau, at gost cynyddol. Dewisa wneud baban allan o wallt, er fod hyn yn rhywbeth gwaharddedig, ac mae’r stori yn dilyn ei hanes hi wrth iddi ddarganfod pam felly. Mae pethau’n mynd yn fwy anghyfforddus a llawn tensiwn wrth i’r stori fynd rhagddi.

Mae dipyn o’r straeon yn y casgliad yn rhai dystopaidd - ac un a oedd yn arbennig o ddifyr oedd The Storymage gan Cheryl S. Ntumy. Yn y byd hwn mae gan bawb ei alwedigaeth mewn cymdeithas, ac mae gan bob person eu lle ac yn mesur eu gwerth yn ôl eu swyddogaeth. Mae’r prif gymeriad yn y stori yma’n chwilio am ei galwedigaeth hithau, wedi bod yn hyfforddi yn yr adran gyfiawnder dan ofal ei thad. Nid hynny yw ei galwedigaeth, ond mae hi’n cael cyfle un dydd i fynd i ddelio ag achos o lofruddiaeth. Daw ei phwrpas yn amlwg, a phwer straeon ac atgofion yn cael eu cyflwyno i ni drwy gyfrwng y byd rhyfedd hwn lle mae pawb yn ffitio i focs.

Roedd na un neu ddau nad oeddwn i’n medru cael mlaen â nhw, mewn gwirionedd, er enghraifft, roedd An Unperson Stands on the Cracked Pavement Contemplating Being and Nothingness (Tendai Huchu) yn waith caled - stori am ddamwain ffordd yw hi, ond mae’r arddull yn athronyddol iawn ac yn gofyn mwy nag un darlleniad i gael gwneud pen na chynffon o’r peth.

Yn yr un modd, doedd arddull The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away (Bushra al-Fadil), gyda’i llif ymwybod a rhyfeddwch y digwyddiadau a’r cymeriadau, ddim yn ei gwneud yn stori oedd yn gwahodd y darllenydd i mewn yn syth.

Dydw i ddim wedi cyffwrdd ar gymaint o’r straeon yn y gyfrol hon - yn sicr, mae na sgwennu arbennig i’w gael yma, ac yn gasgliad gwych sy’n cyflwyno gymaint o wahanol themâu a phynciau. O’r gwleidyddol i’r cymdeithasol, y ddrama deuluol i’r byd dystopaidd, mae na wledd rhwng y cloriau hyn, a hyd yn oed os nad yw popeth yn apelio, mi fydd na rhywbeth yma at ddant pawb.

[queerafricans]

God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu Review—A Momentous Debut of Gay Love and Human Fullness

[holaafrica]

New Post has been published on http://holaafrica.org/14-an-anthology-of-queer-art-vol-2-the-inward-gaze-on-brittle-paper/

14: An Anthology of Queer Art | Vol. 2: The Inward Gaze on Brittle Paper

The LGBTQI art collective 14’s second volume, which featured snippets from Taiye Selasi and 2016 Brunel Prize winner Gbenga Adesina. The anthology is available as a downloadable e-book.

A group whose editors use pseudonyms, 14 took its name from the 14-year jail term prescribed by Nigeria’s same-sex marriage prohibition law, and releases an anthology of writing and visual art—published by Brittle Paper—to commemorate that act of oppression. In January 2017, they released their Volume 1, themed We Are Flowers, a project met with astounding reception. An essay from the anthology was shortlisted for the Brittle PaperAnniversary Award.

This Volume 2, themed The Inward Gaze, collects works by a host of exciting, familiar names on the literary scene. There is poetry by the novelist and activist Unoma Azuah, writing professor at Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago and editor of Blessed Body: The Secret Lives of Nigerian Gay, Lesian, Bisexual and Transgender (2016), the first anthology documenting queer Nigerians, and Mounting the Moon (2017), Nigeria’s first poetry anthology about queerness. As well as by: Chinthu Udayarajan; Onwubiko Chidozie; Chisom Okafor; Ebenezer Agu; the musician-poet Sajid Ahsan Dipra, author of A Fireside Chat with Lucifer (2015); Akola Thompson; and Karen Jennings, 2013 Etisalat Prize-shortlisted author of Finding Soutbek (2012).

There is fiction by: Kiprop Kimutai, finalist for the 2017 Miles Morland Scholarship and the 2018 Gerald Kraak Award; Louis; Cisi Eze; Arinze Ifeakandu, finalist for the 2017 Caine Prize; Erhu Amreyan; and Brittle Paper deputy editor Otosirieze, finalist for the 2016 Miles Morland Scholarship and 2017 Gerald Kraak Award. And there is a memoir by IBK.

There is also a conversation between Chike Frankie Edozien, journalism professor at New York University and author of Lives of Great Men (2017), Nigeria’s first memoir to focus on gay men, and Troy Onyango, a founding editor of Enkare Review and finalist for the 2016 Miles Morland Scholarship and the 2017 Brittle Paper Award for Creative Nonfiction.

There is photography by: Louis; Chukwudi Eternal Udoye; and Mal Muga. There is a drawing by Patrick Chuka, a painting by Ibukun Ayobami, and visual art by Osinachi, whose work can be viewed on Instagram and has appeared in the Art Naija Series.

Here is the Editor’s Note.

The Inward Gaze

The LGBTQ community in Nigeria has experienced so much since the publication of our first issue, We are Flowers, a year ago. 2017 saw the violent attacks on artists of queer expression, the arrest of some forty young men who had gathered for HIV sensitization, the raiding of rooms of LGBTQ students, and widespread backlash in the literary community to the emergence—or, rather, flourishing—of gifted queer voices in the literary space. These things, and many more, are capable of causing rage (and we are pissed), of driving the gaze outside and shining it on the object of provocation. And yet, here we are, with pieces that look inward, unconcerned by the Outside Gaze. Our artists are speaking a language they have spoken in safe spaces, in rooms full of queer people, and they are speaking it fluently, in works that are sometimes ‘loud’ and sometimes tender. They are in love, they are angry, they are heartbroken, they’ve just had sex—whatever stories our contributors are telling, they are confident that they will be understood.

The Snippets by Taiye Selasi and Gbenga Adesina, heartfelt wishes for people they cherish, share a common vision: That a day would come when their beloveds will be seen. The works in this issue reflect that longing to be seen: By a lover or a love interest, a parent, oneself. Yet, by looking inward, we have all been seen, fully and in perfect light, by one another.

Rapum Kambili,

Editor-in-Chief.

This was first published on the literature site Brittle Paper.

Download the anthology here: 14: AN ANTHOLOGY OF QUEER ART | VOL. 2: THE INWARD GAZE

For more literature there is also a piece about queer women books you can buy and also a review of Queer Africa II

[jamesmurualiterary]

The Future Awards Africa Prize 2022 nominees announced.

The Future Awards Africa Prize 2022 nominees announced.

TJ Benson, Arinze Ifeakandu, and Eloghosa Osunde are the literature nominees at Nigeria’s Future Awards Africa Prize 2022. The revelation was made on February 6, 2022. The Future Awards Africa recognizes and celebrates figures in a myriad of fields, between the ages of 18 and 31, who have done remarkable work during the past year. The Awards, founded by Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams in…

[instagist]

Three Nigerians Make Caine Prize 2017 Shortlist

[Daily Trust] Nigeria's Lesley Nneka Arimah, Chikodili Emelumadu, and Arinze Ifeakandu have made the Caine Prize for African Writing 2017 shortlist. They were shortlisted for their short stories, 'Who Will Greet You At Home', 'Bush Baby', and 'God's Children Are Little Broken Things', respectively.

More Gist Here

[vfterluna]

She had thought that the worst thing to happen to her was her father‘s death, yet here she was shattered at the realisation that she had no power as to how he would be mourned. It was like being punched over and over while someone else cried on your behalf.

— Where the Heart Sleeps from God’s Children Are Little Broken Things, Arinze Ifeakandu

[queerafricans]

Recent African LGBTQ Content (as of September 2022)