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Men Don’t Cry invites us into the home of Mourad Chennoun in Nice, where his father spends his retirement fixing things in the backyard, his mother bemoans the loss of her natal village in Algeria, and the name Dounia is taboo.
When Mourad’s father has a stroke, he is forced to rise above his fear of becoming an overweight bachelor, tied down to home by his mother’s cooking, and take steps to bridge the gulf between his family and estranged sister.
This quest takes him to the Paris suburbs where he starts his teaching career and falls into the world of undocumented Algerian toyboys, and discovers that Douania has become a staunch feminist, aspiring politician and fierce assimilationist.
Can Mourad adapt to his new, fast-paced Parisian life and uphold his family’s values?
A poignant coming-of-age story from the widely-acclaimed author of Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow.
#Pride2021: On Ajayi Crowther Street
On the noisy Ajayi Crowther Street in Lagos, neighbours gather to gossip, discuss noise complaints, and faithfully head to church each Sunday. But beneath the surface lies a hidden world of clandestine love affairs, hidden pregnancy, spiritual quackery and hypocrisy, that threatens to destroy the community from within.
Elnathan John’s brilliant graphic novel: On Ajayi Crowther Street peels back the curtains on the lives of Reverend Akpoborie and his family, to reveal a tumultuous world full of secrets and lies.
His only son, Godstime, is struggling to hide his sexuality from his parents whilst his daughter Keturah must hide the truth of her pregnancy by her pastor boyfriend to preserve her family’s image.
But it is the Reverend himself who hides the darkest secret of them all, as his wandering eye lands on Kyauta, their young live-in maid.
Something for Dad: Making Futures with Sangu Delle
Sangu Delle manages to craft an incredibly inspiring and insightful narrative of the realistic challenges and opportunities facing the entrepreneurial landscape throughout the African continent.
Narrated by Kevin R. Free, Sangu Delle’s Making Futures: Young Entrepreneurs in a Dynamic Africa comes to life in an engaging, urgent way that will have dad (and you too) held to rapt attention, and reinvigorated about the possibilities in the African workspace again.
This audiobook is perfect for car journeys or those lazy Sunday afternoons when the world goes quiet and the brain feels able to breathe again. Treat dad this father’s day with a ready downloaded audibook in Sangu Delle’s Making Futures: Young Entrepreneurs in a Dynamic Africa.
Podcast Alert: Psychogeography
Editor and Contributor to Accra Noir; Nana-Ama Danquah joins actress, filmmaker and writer Anniwaa Bauchie to talk about the latest release in the Noir series: Accra Noir.
Now available everywhere, Accra Noir is the perfect collection for readers who love complex, woven tapestries in short story form. The 13 contributors to Accra Noir know too well how to spin a web, so listen in on this brilliant conversation and get tangled in stories centered in one of the most dynamic and diverse cities in the world.
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