The cover of the first issue of ‘Jungle Jim’, the brilliantly designed new bi-monthly African pulp fiction magazine.

In an interview at London’s Southbank Centre in February, E.C Osondu - Nigerian author and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing - suggested that what African literature as a whole needed to improve its international reach was not more high brow fiction and memoir but populist genre fiction. ‘Jungle Jim’ seems to fit the bill perfectly.