The Stories That Belong to Us There is a particular silence that settles over a story told by the wrong voice. You can feel it. Something is slightly off, like a translation that knows all the words but none of the music. That silence has lived too long inside African literature. Not because the stories […]

We Are Listening Now The manuscript you have been sitting on, the one that doesn’t fit neatly anywhere, that is precisely the one we want to read. A story finds its true shape only when it meets an editor who understands what it is trying to become. Too many African manuscripts have been handed to […]