We continue to ask minds that fascinate us, the all important question: Who Lives In Your Head, and today Jendella Benson answers. What makes Jendella Benson special is the impact that she has had on the media landscape for Black British girls and women. Her work at Media Diversified, MTV […]
Beginning the conversation about “Who Lives In Your Head” which we will have in many ways, across multiple formats is Ayesha Harruna Attah for whom Cassava Republic Press is home. Her novel, The Hundred Wells of Salaga continues to delight readers across the world and inspire conversations about what we know and […]
If there is one thing that literature gives us, it is the space to see the ways that love manifests. Over the years, Valentine’s Day has become not just about romantic love, but also about all the loves that keep us firmly held together. It has become a day to celebrate the life loves that […]
What’s in a penis and why does it hold an audience in such rapt attention? A Penis can be many things – a reproductive tool, a waste removal organ, an instrument for pleasure, a symbol of male power or an object of oppression. For Thando Mqgolozana’s protagonist Lumkile […]
As we think of home and our relationship to ever confounding Nigeria, we could not but start with Northern Nigeria, possibly because it is the current focus of political happenings or because it is where our authors Fola Fagbule and Feyi Fawehinmi begin their exploration of the the conception of Nigeria in their recently released […]
Dear Black: The Literary Salon Community, Considering the urgency of the situation unfolding in Nigeria, we feel that we cannot have an intellectually removed discussion about telling stories and making history when there are bodies on the street and police shooting continues in Lagos and elsewhere in Nigeria. We feel we must direct our energy, […]
What we are seeing in Nigeria at the moment: people going into the streets to protest police brutality against everyday citizens, is not new, and that, the rebuilding and returning to the same places that they are terrorised daily, to demand change, is what makes the actions of the thousands who have taken to the […]
Cassava Republic Press has signed writer and activist Chardine Taylor-Stone to pen Sold Out: How Black Feminism Lost Its Soul, a critical analysis of the Black feminism of today, and its departure from its socialist, anti-capitalist and internationalist roots.
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Publishing Director at Cassava Republic Press has acquired world rights to Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation, an account about the making of Nigeria by Fola Fagbule and Feyi Fawehinmi. The book will be published in Nigeria in October 2020, and in the UK and in the US in Spring 2021.
Cassava Republic Press is proud to announce that A Small Silence by Nigerian author Jumoke Verissimo has been shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize - an annual award of £10,000 that recognises a “distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place.” The shortlist, which was announced on April 20, 2020, comes weeks after the awarding body announced its longlist of 18 books, with Verissimo being the only African on the list.