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Baileys Prize 2017: Ayobami Adebayo Is Bookmakers’ Second Favourite To Win
The winner of the 2017 Baileys Prize will be announced tomorrow, 7 June, and Nigeria’s Ayobami Adebayo, who is shortlisted for her debut novel Stay with Me, is the bookmakers’ second favourite to win....
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Africa in Dialogue Publishes e-Book of 2017 Brunel Prize Interviews
Gaamangwe Mogami, editor of Africa in Dialogue, has curated interviews with the ten poets shortlisted for the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. The interviews with Sahro Ali (Somalia),...
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Zukiswa Wanner Co-founds New Intercontinental Project La Shamba
South Africa’s Zukiswa Wanner has co-founded a new intercontinental literary project, La Shamba. The collaboration with the Mexican writer Luis Philip Lomeli is an effort to build a platform for...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Enter for the 2017 Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Submissions are open for the 2017 Wasafiri New Writing Prize. The prize is an initiative of Wasfiri magazine. It was founded in 2009 “to support new writers, with no limits on age, gender, nationality...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Enter for the 2017 Babishai Haiku Contest
The 2017 Babishai Haiku Contest is open for submissions. Only African poets resident in Africa, who have not yet published a full-length collection of poetry by July 2017, are eligible. The organisers...
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All You Need To Know About the First Bissau-Guinean Novel to Be Translated...
Abdulai Sila’s new book is a gift. It really is. African literature is spread across linguistic regions that are pretty much culturally cut off from each other. This means that the vast majority of...
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The Inaugural Gerald Kraak Award Anthology Released
The inaugural Gerald Kraak Award anthology has been released. Titled Pride and Prejudice: African Perspectives on Gender, Social Justice and Sexuality, the anthology collects the fourteen shortlisted...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Submit to Enkare Review’s Second Issue
Enkare Review is currently open for submissions. The magazine’s Issue 1 was released in April and included an interview with The New Yorker editor David Remnick. Since its founding in August 2016, the...
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Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Is Mandatory Reading for Stanford University Freshers
Yaa Gyasi’s multigenerational novel Homegoing is now mandatory reading for freshers at her alma mater, Stanford University. The heavy-hitting first novel was chosen as part of the university’s “Three...
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Teju Cole Releases Fourth Book Blind Spot | Read An Excerpt
Teju Cole does not repeat himself, which is why his new book, Blind Spot, published two weeks ago, is something unprecedented for him: a collection of photography and prose. It is his fourth book,...
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Chinelo Okparanta’s Under The Udala Trees Named Among the 25 Most Impactful...
Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees has been listed as one of the 25 most impactful works of LGBTQ literature in the last twenty years. The list, compiled by The New York Times under the title...
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The Académie Française Honours Guinea’s Tierno Monénembo with the Grand Prix...
Guinea’s Tierno Monénembo has been honoured with the 2017 Grand Prix de la Francophonie, the biggest award of the Académie Française. Founded by the Canadian Government in 1986, the 30,000-euro Grand...
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Ethnic Hate Speech: Statement from Concerned Nigerian Writers
In the light of recent developments in the ever-volatile Nigerian political space, 27 writers, some of them among the best-known in the country, have put out a joint statement condemning hate speech...
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Ngugi Boycotts Swedish Book Fair Due to Presence of Extremist Newspaper
Ngugi has boycotted the Gothenburg Book Fair in Sweden on the basis of the invitation also extended to an extremist newspaper, Nya Tider. Being right-wing extremists, Nya Tider‘s editorial policies...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Enter for the 2018 Gerald Kraak Award
The 2018 Gerald Kraak Award is open for submissions. The award aims to honour works that focus on experiences of gender, social justice and sexuality. The award is given in honour of the late activist...
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Sudanese Poet Bushra al-Fadil Wins the 2017 Caine Prize, Setting Three Records
Sudanese poet Bushra al-Fadil has been awarded the 2017 Caine Prize for African Writing for his poetic, evocative, classic-in-the-making short story, “The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away.” The...
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Why Adichie’s Farafina Workshop Will Not Hold This Year
There will be no 2017 Farafina Creative Writing Workshop. In an email to Brittle Paper, Chimamanda Adichie, who is Creative Director at the workshop, stated that “our sponsor, Nigerian Breweries PLC...
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Opportunity for African Writers | The 2017 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship
Submissions have begun for the 2017 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship. The most prestigious end-of-the-year award on the continent, the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship offers scholars writing...
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EVENT: Afridiaspora Magazine to Host Zukiswa Wanner in New York
A few days after the African Literature Association (ALA) Festival at Yale University, another event is upon us. Afridiaspora magazine will be hosting Zukiswa Wanner in New York. The South African...
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Dear Ijeawele Wins Adichie Her First Ever Nonfiction Award and Fourth Award...
Chère Ijeawele, ou Un Manifeste Pour Une Education Féministe, the French edition of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, has been awarded the 2017...
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