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The 2017 NLNG Prize for Literature Longlist
The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Prize has announced its 2017 longlist of eleven poets, and it includes such well known names as Tanure Ojaide, Obari Gomba, and Jumoke Verissimo whom we’ve...
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The 2017 Babishai Haiku Award Shortlist
Seventeen poets have been named on the 2017 Babishai Haiku Award shortlist. The award is an initiative of the Babishai-Niwe Poetry Foundation whose director is Beverly Nambuzo Nsengiyunva. Here are...
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Wole Soyinka’s Poem for the Late Literary Scholar Abiola Irele
Professor Abiola Irele passed on earlier this month at the age of 81. Born in 1936, the late critic was one of the finest and most respected African literary scholars. Graduating from the University...
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New-Generation African Poets 2017 Box Set Featured in Vogue Magazine
African Poetry Book Fund’s New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne) has been featured in Vogue magazine. The feature, written by Tariro Mzezewa, who is Zimbabwean, is titled “In Times of...
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PHOTOS | Magunga Williams Compares Kenyan Politicians to Game of Thrones...
Two weeks before Kenya votes for a new president, online bookseller and blogger William Magunga has caused wild excitement by comparing Kenyan politicians to Game of Thrones characters on Facebook....
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Brittle Paper Anniversary Event: “Un-Silencing Queer Nigeria”| A Conversation...
On August 1, 2017, Brittle Paper will be seven years old. To mark our anniversary, we are organising a series of events, among which are Facebook conversations with writers, editors and founders of...
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Opportunity for African Interviewers | Submit to Africa in Dialogue
The interview magazine, Africa in Dialogue, has made a call for submissions for its first issue, which will be guest-edited by the novelist and Saraba co-founder Immanuel Iduma. The interviews could...
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American Book Awards: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Wins Its Third Prize of 2017
Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing is among the sixteen winners of the 2017 American Book Awards. This recognition is the third major prize picked by the debut novel in 2017 as well as since its June 2016...
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The Four African Novelists Longlisted for the 2017 Not The Booker Prize
After months of African books picking, or having a run at, major international prizes left and right—Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing won the NBCC’s John Leonard Prize, the PEN Hemingway award for debut fiction...
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When Writers Talk Music: Vol. 1 | Teju Cole on Fela and WizKid, Imbolo Mbue...
Enough of books, let’s talk music. Or let’s read writers talking music. So what happens when writers talk music? Here at Brittle Paper, we try to keep things fun, so we’re launching a weekly series...
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2017 University of Johannesburg Prizes: Nthikeng Mohlele and Mohale Mashingo...
The 2017 University of Johannesburg Prizes have been awarded to Nthikeng Mohlele and Mohale Mashigo. Mohlele, who made the Africa39 list, won in the R75 000 Main Prize category for his fourth book,...
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Sillerman Prize Winners, Ladan Osman and Mahtem Shiferraw, Announced as 2018...
The 2018 Neustadt Prize judges have been announced, and among them, in a very happy coincidence, are the 2014 and 2015 winners of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets: Ladan Osman and...
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Translating Guinea-Bissau’s First English-Language Novel | by Jethro Soutar
In June, we brought news of the publication of the first ever novel from Guinea-Bissau to be translated into Englis. Abdulai Sila’s The Ultimate Tragedy, published in 1995, was originally written in...
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The 2017 Babishai Haiku Prize Goes to Kenya’s Kariuki wa Nyamu
The 2017 Babishai Haiku Award has gone to Kenya’s Kariuki wa Nyamu for his three haikus: “last night’s rain,” “in the morning mud,” and “fresh toad prints.” The announcement was made at the Babishai...
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First Photos from the 2017 Writivism Festival
The 2017 Writivism Festival just wrapped up in Kampala. It was held from 17 to 20 August. An initiative of the Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE), the festival has, since 2013, been a...
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The 2017 Writivism Short Story Prize Goes to Nigeria’s Munachim Amah
The Writivism Short Story Prize has gone to Nigeria’s Munachim Amah. He won for his short story, “Stolen Pieces.” He will receive the $400 prize money. First awarded in 2013, the Writivism Short Story...
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The 2017 Writivism Kofi Addo Prize for Nonfiction Goes to South Africa’s...
The 2017 Writivism Kofi Addo Prize for Nonfiction has gone to South Africa’s Charles King. He won for “Meat Bomb.” Alongside him on the shortlist were two Nigerians: Vivian Uchechi Ogbonna, for “A...
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Tanure Ojaide, Ogaga Ifowodo and Ikeogu Oke Shortlisted for the 2017 NLNG Prize
The 2017 Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Prize for Literature has unveiled its shortlist, and it comprises three poetry collections: Tanure Ojaide’s Songs of Myself: Quartet, Ogaga Ifowodo’s A...
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New Pop Culture Magazine, The Afro Vibe, Launched
In June, we announced a call for submissions by The Afro Vibe, the newest African pop culture magazine. Launched on 18 August 2017, The Afro Vibe is owned by Expound magazine editor, Wale Owoade,...
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Fortiscue Helepi’s African Flavour Books to Open a New Store in Braamfontein
African Flavour Books will be opening a new bookstore in Braamfontein, South Africa. The company, which “sells African literature and vernacular literature from South Africa” as well as music, movies...
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