by DYB Team | Jun 4, 2026 | Africa, Southern Africa
The House of Hunger by the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera is like broken glass. You will not finish it cleanly. You will not be able to. The book will not let you, and the book does not want to. Marechera published this slim volume in 1978 when he was twenty-six...
by DYB Team | Jun 1, 2026 | Africa
A body shows up on the outskirts of town. A young woman. A singer. Forty days later, the country is on fire. The End of the Sahara is the most recent novel by the Algerian writer Saïd Khatibi, translated into English from the Arabic by Alexander E. Elinson. It won the...
by DYB Team | May 29, 2026 | Africa
Every dystopia is in conversation with the one before it. Huxley was talking back to Wells. Orwell was talking back to both of them. Atwood was talking back to Orwell. And 2084, the title alone, tells you exactly which conversation Boualem Sansal wants to enter. This...
by DYB Team | May 23, 2026 | West Africa
Okonkwo is one of the most respected men in Umuofia, a cluster of nine Igbo villages in what will eventually be called southeastern Nigeria. He is a wrestling champion. He is a yam farmer of standing. He has three wives, a barn full of seed yams, and a quietly...
by DYB Team | May 20, 2026 | Africa
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, a place stitched together at the turn of the twentieth century by British colonial administrators who drew a line around several hundred ethnic and religious groups and called the result a country. This Fiction Called...
