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Hey BNers, it’s Onyinye here, again. My journey to Zanzibar began, as many grand adventures do, with great anticipation. A ...

How do you think the story will end?” he asks Badar, his mother’s servant boy, in a cruel taunt disguised as a moral lesson.

In March 1986 the president of Burkina Faso, who hid his books in trunks to avoid revealing himself, granted a very personal ...

Set during a period of political and social transition ... “I say to myself, right, the next book I’m not going to write about Zanzibar,” he says, but when he begins to imagine his characters, “the ...

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Want to explore Africa but aren't sure where to get started? These are the best cities in Africa for solo travel adventures of all stripes.

There’s also a new book from the brilliant Malaysian novelist ... It’s unclear exactly when it’s set — people own mobile phones but it appears to be a time of economic upheaval.

From the return of a literary great to mind-expanding nonfiction, here is our pick of the 14 books you should know about this month…. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Th ...

Nigel Biggar, CBE, is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas and author of the bestselling Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2024). He will be speaking at Yorkminster Park Church, Toronto as the guest of the ...