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Willie Currie: His comic novel Blue Eland Foxtrot on apartheid & eerie present day parallels

Author Willie Currie talks about: his novel Blue Eland Foxtrot; the story in the novel and its autobiographical aspects; the impact of the UDF; whether Afrikaans nationalism was a cousin of Nazism; and the eerie parallels between apartheid and the present day Government. ... read more
August 11, 2017

Stanley Gazemba on a dark collection of short stories, Nairobi Echoes and Kenyans' view of eBooks

Author Stanley Gazemba talks about: his latest collection of short stories Nairobi Echoes published by Bahati Books; his first novel that will be published in the USA; his and Kenyans' view of eBooks; and the limitations of the Kenyan publishing market. ... read more
January 7, 2017

Chronicles of a Runs Girl blogger Leye Adenle on his first novel, Easy Motion Tourist

Blogger and author Leye Adenle talks about: the plot in his first novel Easy Motion Tourist; how the idea to write it came to him; the idea of decriminalising or legalising prostitution; his Wazobia Report published Chronicles of a Runs Girl; how many people read it online; and how his online writing (Wazobia Report and Auntie Ngozi) led to the print publication of his first novel with Cassava Republic. ... read more
September 4, 2016

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim on his 1st novel about an elder widow and a weed dealing young man

Author Abubakar Adam Ibrahim talks about: his first novel Season of Crimson Blossoms about an older widow wanting to explore her sexual side in Northern Nigeria; how the North of Nigeria is seen in fiction; and the author as a writer of "human stories". ... read more
November 10, 2015
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