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In the early pages of her memoir, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Clemantine Wamayira confesses: “I have never been inviolable. Often, still, my own life story feels fragmented, like beads unstrung. Each time I scoop up my memories, the assortment is slightly different.” In...

by Lydia Kakwera Levy Is Social Media good for Contemporary African Writers? What are the benefits and drawbacks of using social media to publish one’s work? At a recent panel discussion celebrating the five-year anniversary of Writivism, the topic of social media was front...

I want to begin this book review by recommending two books that had a profound impact on me as a young reader. My love and appreciation of Africana literature began with two books: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel Nervous...