This page is a complete index to all posts published here at Kinna Reads displayed in reverse chronological order from the first publication date of March 11, 2010 to today.

• Happening Soon: Pa Gya and #Akefest18
• Short Commentary on The End of Days, Far From My Father, and Maid in SA
• Six Degrees of Separation, From Tales of the City to Nervous Conditions
• Short Reviews of a Kang, a Clemmons and a Manyika
• Six Degrees of Separation, From The Poisonwood Bible to Ghana Must Go
• A Year-to-Date Reading Report and Plans for May
• Currently: I’m up for the #Readathon
• “Wrong Number Number Two” by Ama Ata Aidoo #PoetryMonth
• “The Banquet” by Wana Udobang #PoetryMonth
• “Oughta Be A Woman” by June Jordan #PoetryMonth
• “Bathing in Lake Victoria” by Ngwatilo Mawiyoo #PoetryMonth
• “Our Mother Died Expecting” by Efe Paul Azino #PoetryMonth
• “2 Pelicans” by Ali Cobby Eckermann #PoetryMonth
• “This Zinc Roof” by Kei Miller #PoetryMonth
• “Mathematician” by Poetra Asantewa #PoetryMonth
• “The Afternoon Sun” by C. P. Cavafy #PoetryMonth
• “Who Said It Was Simple” by Audre Lorde #PoetryMonth
• “My Mother in Three Photographs” by Susan Kiguli #PoetryMonth
• “Kumukanda” by Kayo Chingonyi. #PoetryMonth
• “May This be a House of Joy” by Lucille Clifton #PoetryMonth
• Yewande Omotoso, Marie Ndiaye and nine others make International Dublin Literary Award 2018 Shortlist
• On Andrés Barba’s Such Small Hands and José Saramago’s Cain
• “Song of Winnie” by Gwendolyn Brooks #PoetryMonth
• From “Winnie” by Gwendolyn Brooks as we begin April is #PoetryMonth
• 12 Short Story Collections to Read in 2018
• “Black Joy” by Koleka Putuma
• March 31st Deadline for 2018 Writivism Prizes and The 2018 Golden Baobab Prize
• (Cover Reveal) She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak
• Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, seven others awarded 2018 Windham-Campbell Prizes
• 2018 Africa Reading Challenge
• Currently: I’m up too early
• “II ii – I have to think about what it means to be here…” by Dionne Brand
• “Self Portrait With No Flag” by Safia Elhillo
• “There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women” by Audre Lorde
• “In Time of War” by Eli Tetteh
• 2017 Africa Reading Challenge
• For #InternationalWomensDay: “On Reading Jackie Kay” by Ama Ata Aidoo
• Currently: Eagerly Anticipating #Akefest16 in Abeokuta
• African Writers and Storytellers Resident in Ghana: Apply for the Nana Kofi Addo and the Abena Korantemaa Prizes
• Fiston Mwanza Mujilla and Tram 83 win 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature
• Short Story Day Africa announces 2016 theme and dates for submission
• 2016 Writivism Short Story Prize opens for submssions
• TBR Book Tag!
• #LoveInLiteraryAfrica: A Reading List
• A Short Note Upon A First Reading of Kintu
• Jerome Reviews Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Currently: Harmattan in a New Year, Bookish Goals and Reading Challenges
• 2016 Africa Reading Challenge
• The shortlist for 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature is announced and Tram 83 makes the cut
• Please, let’s stand with @BinyavangaW
• What’s up with the outdated language in description of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing?
• My 27-Book Haul from @AkeFestival #AkeFest15
• #AkeFest15 Day 2: School Visits, meeting folks and books!
• “There are stories” by Nana Nyarko Boateng
• Currently: Heading to the Ake Arts and Book Festival
• “Power” by Audre Lorde
• “A Falling” by Ama Ata Aidoo
• Tram 83 and The Fisherman among nine books named on longlist for 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature
• I’m startled by this image ….
• African Poets, the Brunel University Prize and the Sillerman Prize are open for submissions.
• We’ve lost Lauretta Ngcobo
• “I Want You to Know” by Micere Githae Mugo
• “Now” by Audre Lorde
• “for the range of his sympathy”
• Mr. Loverman, by Bernardine Evaristo
• Marlon James, the 2015 Man Booker Prize Winner
• “the lost women” by Lucille Clifton
• Svetlana Alexievich wins the 2015 Nobel in Literature, and I talk about the Prize
• Three mini book reviews – Reading with kids; The Justice; The History of Love
• Jerome Reviews The Political History of Ghana (1950-2013) by Dr Obed Yao Asamoah
• Currently : Finding my way back here
• “How We Forget” By Loyce Gayo
• Two Additions to the Stack
• ROY G BIV in Seven Books
• My Maths Teacher Hates Me and Other Stories, Jalada’s new Flash Fiction Anthology
• Aminatta Forna Among Seven Women Writers Nominated for the 2016 Neustadt Prize
• A Suggested Reading List for Penny (and you)
• “What We Want” by Mary Oliver
• Jerome Reviews The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Currently : Getting ready for Abidjan, #AfDBAM2015 and #CSOForumAbidjan
• László Krasznahorkai wins the 2015 Man Booker International Prize
• Winner of The Man Booker International Prize will be announced today. Four Africans are up for the award.
• Online Magazines: May 2015 Issues
• “Translations” by Adrienne Rich
• Link Gems: Ghansah on Morrison; Akpabli on Fufu; Gachagua on Poetry and Grief; and more.
• Call for Applications: AWDF’s “Writing for Social Change” Workshop for African Women
• 10 Poetry Books To Add To Your Reading List
• “Unclaimed” by Clifton Gachagua
• Yiyun Li wins The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award with ‘A Sheltered Woman’
• From “You are in the dark, in the car…” by Claudia Rankine
• Nana Malone and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers Will Read in Accra this Week
• “Some of My Worst Wounds” by Lorna Goodison
• “Since you” by Dionne Brand
• “Dust to Dust” by Tsitsi Jaji
• “here rests” by Lucille Clifton
• “Tonight” by Ladan Osman
• In Search of the New for (US) National Poetry Month
• My Shadow Jalada Prize Longlist
• “Freezing in Sunshine” by Ama Ata Aidoo
• Jerome Reviews A. K. Awedoba’s An Ethnographic Study of Northern Ghanaian Conflicts: Towards a Sustainable Peace