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We present to you, African Literary Magazines, the directory you’ve been searching for. A needed haven for writers, artistes and creative people of African descent, African Literary Magazines provides you information about literary organizations that cater to your works.

We know how hard it is to start magazine shopping after completing your work and being encumbered by the process. Our goal at The Single Story Foundation is to provide you with the resources to tell your story efficiently. Hopefully, this directory will help in that regard. Continue Reading

Otobong Nkanga, a Nigerian, has become the first African to win the Korean Yanghyun Foundation Artist Award. The award was presented in Seoul, Korea. She will receive 100 million won ($86,300) and an opportunity to hold a solo exhibition at any chosen museum around the world, as part of her prize for winning the award.

She was selected for her outstanding creativity in media and motivational photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video. Continue Reading

Dynamic Africa provides a and-picked list of African and Afro-Diasporan art events happening around the world on its Tumblr page that is updated weekly. Dynamic Africa is a Pan-African Cultural blog with a contemporary focus. With a team of contributors based worldwide, Dynamic Africa offers African-based news, lifestyle & cultural platform focused on the continent & diaspora.

Such listing includes:

“Njideka Akunyili Crosby” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA.

In her Los Angeles debut, Nigerian-American artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby brings her large scale works on paper, which combine collage, drawing, painting, and printmaking, fusing African and American influences and creative traditions, to the California gallery. Continue Reading

Ava DuVernay, Selma director, and her distribution company, ARRAY, will be releasing  Ayanda, a South African coming of age drama in the US, specifically theaters in Los Angeles and New York.

Directed by Sara Blecher, Ayanda, tells the story of a young woman, Ayanda, who does everything in her power to keep her father’s legacy alive. She goes on a journey of self-discovery as she copes with his death even as she works at her father’s car repair shop. With love, humor and a few trials and tribulations, Ayanda grows in her identity while honoring the memory of her beloved father. Continue Reading

Rusty Radiator, the group who brought you the hilarious Radi-Aid (Africa For Norway) and Let’s Save Africa – Gone Wrong videos, on November 7 uploaded its new video on YouTube. In the video, titled Who Wants To Be A Volunteer?, we meet Lily, a volunteer who runs around South Africa perpetuating the stereotypes of Africa done by volunteers. She throws packets of rice at Africans who don’t need them, one child is actually eating food when she throws a packet at him, takes pictures with school children, shows untarred roads without the tall building they are next to, etc. Watch the video below.

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I’m a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call “the danger of the single story.” I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth. So I was an early reader. And what I read were British and American children’s books. I was also an early writer. And when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading. All my characters were white and blue-eyed. They played in the snow. They ate apples.  And they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out. Now, this despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria. I had never been outside Nigeria. We didn’t have snow. We ate mangoes. And we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to. My characters also drank a lot of ginger beer because the characters in the British books I read drank ginger beer. Never mind that I had no idea what ginger beer was.  And for many years afterwards, I would have a desperate desire to taste ginger beer. But that is another story. Continue Reading