Everyone expects us to fail, and to succeed is to be the exception. The space between renders us unremarkable.
Essays
How Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s great Ugandan novel shows us other ways of knowing
It may surprise a few to know that Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's debut, a now-established classic of African literature, was rejected by British publishers for being ‘too African’.
How Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s The Sex Lives of African Women will set you free
The Sex Lives of African Women is a safe space: it is pure, unadulterated freedom, somehow magically distilled and transformed into a 304-page book.
The publishing industry cannot continue to hide its anti-Blackness behind #BlackBestSeller
Readers should be asking how these Black-authored titles would be different if they were also Black-edited, Black-designed, and Black-publicised.
All I want for Christmas is the death of lazy, “diversity” language
All too often we scroll across well-meaning publishing people using POC when they mean Black, racism when they mean anti-Blackness.