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Brittle Paper

Brittle Paper is a virtual space where Ainehi Edoro plays and experiments with ideas on how to reinvent African fiction and literary culture. Here, we offer highlights as part of the Guardian Books Network

22 June 2016

  • aidoo-conrad

    Four times African writers rewrote a western classic and nailed it

    Ainehi Edoro looks at books by African writers that are based on western classics – sometimes giving the original a complete makeover

8 June 2016

  • Beyoncé Formation

    Beyoncé is not shining a light on African literature – it's the other way round

    Everyone has celebrated how Beyoncé’s celebrity power has elevated Warsan Shire’s work to global attention. But African literature should not only attain universal value when endorsed by the west, argues Ainehi Edoro

13 April 2016

  • Steven Berkoff in his adaption of Kafka’s Metamorphosis at London’s Roundhouse, in 1969.

    Blackass: a race rewrite of Kafka's Metamorphosis

    Ainehi Edoro reflects on Blackass, a novel that subjects Kafka’s classic to African literary conventions – and, in the process, gives an iconic European story ‘an extreme but necessary makeover’

6 April 2016

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, winner of the Orange Prize for fiction 2007, for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun.

    How not to talk about African fiction

    To start our partnership with Brittle Paper, Ainehi Edoro explores the inherent bias of readers, reviewers and publishers when it comes to African novels – by comparing Amazon blurbs for David Mitchell and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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