TJ Benson’s We Won’t Fade into Darkness, shortlisted for the Saraba Manuscript Prize, startle you with spine-tingling visions of a post-apocalyptic, technology-reconfigured Africa.

By Yinka Elujoba—   In Anders Nilsen’s book, Poetry is Useless, a character tries to define love. First he says: “Love is like the ocean.” Then he says: “Or like a photograph of the ocean”. The he says again: “Or like...