Chimurenga Chronic Out Now!

chimurenga_chronic_front_pageThe Chimurenga Chronic is a one-day-only edition of a fictional weekly newspaper backdated to the first week of the xenophobic violence that rocked South Africa from May 11-18 2008.

Part art object, part critical commentary on the unsaid in everyday discourse, The Chimurenga Chronic reinvents the newspaper bringing together some of our continent’s leading writers, photographers and artists, to create a beautiful and thoroughly absorbing limited edition collector's item accessorised for your coffee table.

The project is a collaboration between Cassava Republic Press, the hyper-hip Kenyan-based magazine Kwani?, and the avant-garde South African journal Chimurenga.

Copies are available for N5,000 in Nigeria (£20/$35 excl. postage to anywhere else). Contact info@cassavarepublic.biz and place your order now.
 
Now Available

To See the Mountain and other stories

caine_prize_2011_cover

Cassava Republic presents the 2011 edition of the Caine Prize for African Writing’s short story collection.

Ever since it first appeared on our shelves in 2008, this series featuring short stories from around Africa has been hugely popular. This year, we are excited to bring you stories by prize-winner NoViolet Bulawayo, as well as Beatrice Lamwaka, Tim Keegan and many more.

This collection sells out quickly, so be sure to get your copy now.

Contact info@cassavarepublic.biz for more information.

 
 
How to buy our books

We will shortly be activating our epayments platform so you will be able to shop using Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Interswitch and ship to Nigeria and overseas (depending on the book). Until then, there are several ways you can buy our books.  If you are in Nigeria, you can buy from these shops. If you are buying and shipping to a non-Nigerian address using an international card, please contact us at buy@cassavarepublic.biz to make your order.

Thanks!

 
 

The Lagos Review

The Bookaholic

Critical literature review

African Literature News

  • The man who rediscovered Africa
    Some of us have read this already, but I think it's worth reading again. This is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie paying tribute to her most important literary forebear, Chinua Achebe. I think that her ruminations...

Incessant Scribble

  • A Fistful of Tales by Ayodele Arigbabu - My Thoughts
    'Warp', 'Misery', 'Return of the Okinawa Prince', 'Lacerations', 'Set Theory', 'Special Secretary', 'It Happened in Benin', 'Lots of Muscle and Lots of Blood', 'My Super-hero Story', and 'The X12 Moon-Shade', are the ten titles in...

Storymoja

  • Peculiarly Kenyan Short Story Contest Shortlist
    I expect you must be anxious to see the final shortlist of the stories submitted for the Peculiar Kenyan Short Story Contest. And here it is. There will be no voting this time because Sunny Bindra, the Author of The Peculiar Kenyan will decide on the winning story in the course of this week. However, your helpful and critical...

Tolu Ogunlesi's blog

Jude Dibia blog

  • For Colored Girls

    I had resisted watching For Colored Girls until now, and I must say it was not what I expected. My initial resistance can be traced to the fact that I am not...

Onyeka Nwelue's blog