Realism’s dominance of the histories of globalised World Literature is unmerited in quantitative terms, Franco Moretti once averred. In Africa, the same may be true of a the Achebean strand of Anglophone writing. The second academic event of the project was held at the University of Southampton. We spoke about the linguistic, geo-cultural and formal plurality of Africa’s realisms, and decisively moved some of them (for example, the ‘gritty’ version of Kenya’s Kwani? represented on the day by Billy Kahora) out of the realm of ‘popular’ literature. Sadly, project partners Grace Musila and Lynda Spencer could not attend this in person. For no good reason that we can see, their visas did not arrive in time. We are grateful to AHRC for a short extension to the project, which brought Lynda and Grace to Southampton in March 2024, for a workshop with Southampton’s Creative Writing postgraduates. Their presentation embedded the project’s findings into a discussion of what might be the top