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Opportunity for African Writers | Applications Open for FEMRITE’s 7th...
Where are our women writers in the house? Here is a golden chance for you. Contributing to the celebration and empowerment of female writers on the continent, FEMRITE has officially announced the call...
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The 2017 Caine Prize Shortlist Announced | And It’s a Record-setting Surprise!
The 2017 Caine Prize shortlist has been announced and it is an exciting, surprising, record-setting one. There are three Nigerians, one South African, and one Sudanese. It has both the Prize’s oldest...
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Watch Baileys Prize Nominees Ayobami Adebayo and Yewande Omotoso in...
Baileys Prize-nominated novelists, Ayobami Adebayo and Yewande Omotoso, will be in conversation in Lagos. Their discussion, which can be attended for free, is part of the Goethe-Institut Nigeria’s...
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Zakes Mda, Yewande Omotoso, Kopano Matlwa Lead the Barry Ronge Prize for...
Five books have been named on the shortlist for the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. They are: Bronwyn Law-Viljoen’s The Printmaker; Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain; Zakes Mda’s Little Suns; Yewande Omotoso’s...
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The Alan Paton Award for Nonfiction Shortlist Unveiled
Five books have been named on the shortlist for the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. They are: Sean Christie’s Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard: Life Among the Stowaways; Christa Kuljian’s Darwin’s...
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EVENT: Brittle Paper’s Editor Ainehi Edoro’s Presents Lecture on African...
What if African writers are read independent of their origin? What if they are read as though with a different identity? What if Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is read not as the story of an Igbo...
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Jowhor Ile is the First Nigerian to Win the Etisalat Prize for Literature
Jowhor Ile has been awarded the 2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature for his debut novel And After Many Days, making him the first Nigerian to take the prize in its four years. The event was held an...
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An Evening of African Literature | Photos From Abubakar Ibrahim and Sarah L....
It is always a delightful treat to hear African writers in conversation with each other. A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to attend such a dialogue. On April 30, Politics and Prose bookstore...
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Opportunity for Nigerian Writers | Enter for the Okike Prize for Literature
Another prize awarding literary excellence has surfaced. The Okike Prize for Literature is a new initiative promoting writing by Nigerian undergraduates. Submissions can be made in any of the three...
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#LetRomeoBreathe: How Young Nigerian Writers Pushed Back against Violent...
It began hours after the Brunel Prize was awarded to Romeo Oriogun on 2 May. Amidst the explosion of cheers, certain posts began to surface. On a few personal blogs. On social media. They all had the...
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Akwaeke Emezi Awarded the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa Region
Akwaeke Emezi has been awarded the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Africa Region) for her entry, “Who Is Like God?” The other regional winners are: “The Death of Margaret Roe” by Nat Newman...
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The New Things Fall Apart Cover is the Best Thing You’ll See Today
Things Fall Apart will be 60 next year. And Penguin USA is pulling all the stops to put together a commemoration worthy of such a great book. They commissioned a new cover design for the book. It was...
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Judges Unveiled for the Black Letter Media Short Story Competition
Black Letter Media has released the three-person list of judges for the 2017 edition of its short story competition. The judges are Kgauhelo Dube, Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, and Sabata-mpho Mokae. The...
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Sarah Waiswa and Farah Ahamed Named Co-winners of the 2017 Gerald Kraak Award
The Ugandan-born Kenya-based photographer Sarah Waiswa and the Kenyan writer Farah Ahamed have been named co-winners of the inaugural Gerald Kraak Award. The announcement came at the award ceremony in...
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Aaron Bady Explains How Jalada Is a “Revolution Uniting African Literature”
Founded in 2013, the pan-African collective Jalada is unarguably at the forefront of the reinvention of African literature. In this period of time, the group has published five important anthologies...
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Read Namwali Serpell’s Introduction to the New Edition of Ngugi’s Devil on...
Thirty-seven years after it was first published, Ngugi’s Devil on the Cross has a new edition from Penguin Classics, with an introduction by the 2015 Caine Prize winner Namwali Serpell. Part of this...
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Read Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Foreword to the New Edition of Achebe’s...
So much has been said about how Chinua Achebe’s first three novels—Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964)—constitute a trilogy charting the response of three...
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“Similar Quotidian Energies”| Caine Prize Judge Nii Ayikwei Parkes Comments...
The 2017 Caine Prize shortlist, which was announced two weeks ago, is arguably, as Petina Gappah suggested, the prize’s most thematically-diverse shortlist in years. Each of the five stories—Lesley...
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Who Is Your Favourite African Female Literary Character? | Submit a Video to...
Who is your favourite African female literary character? Is it Darling in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names? Or Effia or Esi in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing? Or Neni in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers?...
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Lesley Nneka Arimah Wins a 2017 O. Henry Prize
Lesley Nneka Arimah’s short story “Glory” has won an O. Henry Prize. The O. Henry Prize is awarded to twenty of the year’s best stories. The chosen stories will be collected in an anthology edited by...
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