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Events Reviews

Contemporary African Art in London

ByEditorOctober 15, 2018January 6, 2019

October is always an exhilarating month for art lovers in London. Exhibitions featuring African artists can be seen at Tate Modern Museum, National Portrait Gallery and the Frieze Art Fair in Regents Park. This year, one of the most exciting events to check out...

Reviews

A Summer of African Literature and Culture

ByEditorSeptember 14, 2018September 14, 2018

Although summer is over, the joy of reading doesn’t have to end. Omusana Review looks back at some of the books and events we experienced this year. Since our launch in April, Omusana Review has been examining the work of African writers whose texts...

Interview Reviews

On African Education

ByEditorAugust 14, 2018January 19, 2026

Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing young people in Uganda. Many of them are educated and qualified but they lack job opportunities to earn an income. During a visit to uganda country in 2017, I had an interesting conversation on how young...

Reviews

Clemantine Wamariya Writes a Moving Account of the Rwandan Genocide

ByEditorJuly 24, 2018January 19, 2026

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...

Events Reviews

Yomi Sode an Exciting African Playwright

ByEditorJuly 1, 2018January 19, 2026

by, Lydia Kakwera Levy Africa Writes, the annual literature festival sponsored by the Royal African Society is currently taking place in London and will end on Sunday, July 1, 2018. One of the most sought after ticket of the festival was to Yomi Sode’s...

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Contemporary African Writers and Social Media

ByEditorMay 17, 2018January 19, 2026

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...

Interview

ByEditorMarch 31, 2018January 5, 2022

It has been said that literature is a great icebreaker. In this short discussion, I spoke to Toyin Jawanda, who lives and works in Nigeria. We talked about the small book We Should All Be Feminist by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This book is poignant...

Reviews

Book Review- Nervous Conditions

ByEditorMarch 30, 2018April 13, 2018

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...

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