Photo by Pana Vasquez via Unsplash It isn’t that time of the year when we look back on what happened in it—that time is December, and this is February. But a delay in releasing this list seemed inevitable for a year that, on several levels, saw our literary culture expand. Organisations took groundbreaking steps: in March, Jalada Africa held a 12-city, 5-country mobile literary and arts festival in East and Central Africa; in April, the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) announced the Nommo Awards, the first for speculative fiction on the continent, which was awarded in November; and in August, we announced the inaugural Brittle Paper Literary Awards, for fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and essays, which was awarded in October. Furthermore, two major magazines rose to prominence: South Africa-based The Johannesburg Review of Books and its well curated issues, and Botswana-based Africa in Dialogue which, with its conversations, has quickly become a library of profundity. Our delay stems partly from our need to rightly reflect all these in the list. Read: The Brittle Paper Digest: 31 Notable Pieces of 2016 In 2016, our year-end list contained 31 pieces. For 2017, we round off at 79. We wanted a list that told a story of… Read full this story
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