Rosemary Jolly and I have co-edited an issue of Comparative Literature Studies on “African Literatures and the Question of Form.” It includes fantastic essays by Comfort Olajumoke Verissimo, Luís Madureira, Rita Barnard, and Gabriel Bámgbóṣé, with an equally wonderful and thought-provoking afterword by Grace Musila. You can read the issue here.

My article, “Es’kia Mphahlele and the Literary Project of African Humanism,” has been published in the spring 2025 issue of College Literature. You can find it here.

The Journal of the African Literature Association has published my latest article. It’s on the relations between video games and the novel form in Pepetela, In Koli Jean Bofane, Tendai Huchu, and Masande Ntshanga.You can find it here.

My article, “Beyond the Liberal Subject: Susan N. Kiguli and the Lyric Poem in 1990s Uganda,” has been published in a bumper special issue of Interventions on “Poetics from the Global South,” edited by Nathan Suhr-Sytsma and Ryan Topper. A huge thanks to Nathan, Ryan, and all the other contributors. You can find the issue here.

My piece for Pedagogy on “Teaching Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard as Part of a Decolonial Literature Syllabus” has been published and is available here.

My review of Michel K. Zongo’s documentary, Pas d’or pour Kalsaka/No Gold for Kalsaka was recently published in African Studies Review. Check it out here.

I’m delighted to announce the publication of African Literatures as World Literature, an essay volume that I’ve co-edited with Madhu Krishnan. It is part of Bloomsbury Academic’s “Literature as World Literature” series, and features pieces by a number of scholars and writers in the field of African literatures. The full contents list is below and you can find more information about the book here.

Contents

1. Introduction: African Literatures and the Problem of ‘the World’
Alexander Fyfe (University of Georgia, USA) and Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol, UK)
2. ‘African Borders Are Unnatural’: Nairobi and the Rise of a World Literature
Bhakti Shringarpure (University of Connecticut, USA)
3. Can Nairobi ‘World’ without the ‘Great Kenyan Novel’?
Billy Kahora (University of Bristol, UK)
4. The Problem with French and the World: Imagining the Province and the Global in Francophone African Fiction
Sarah Arens (University of Liverpool, UK)
5. The First Ethiopian Novel in Amharic (1908) and the World: Critical and Theoretical Legacies
Sara Marzagora (King’s College London, UK)
6. The Kaiser, Angoche and the World at Large: Swahili Poetry from Mozambique as World (War) Literature
Clarissa Vierke (University of Bayreuth, Germany) and Chapane Mutiua (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique)
7. Early Sesotho, isiXhosa and isiZulu Novels as World Literature
Ashleigh Harris (Uppsala University, Sweden)
8. African Multilingualism as an Asset in World Literature: A Case against Cultural Conformity and Uniformity
Munyao Kilolo (Writer, Editor and Journalist, Kenya)
9. New Cartographies for World Literary Space: Locating Pan-African Publishing and Prizing
Zamda R. Geuza (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) and Kate Wallis (University of Exeter, UK) 
10. Aké Festival and the African World Stage
Lola Shoneyin (Poet and Novelist, Nigeria)
11. Contemporary African Literature and Celebrity Capital
Doseline Kiguru (University of Bristol, UK)
12. Reversing the Global Media Lens: Colonial Spectacularization in the Writing of Binyavanga Wainaina 
Penny Cartwright (University of Bristol, UK)
13. The Facts at the Heart of the Matter: Character and Objectivity in the Making of the Fante Intelligentsia
Jeanne-Marie Jackson (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

After a good stint in preprint, my article on Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83 has now been placed the latest issue of Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. You can find it here.

Social Dynamics has published my article on the literary blogger Ikhide R. Ikheloa and the questions that his work raises for the academic field of African literary studies. You can view the abstract and read the full essay here.