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New Website Collects Everything Binyavanga Wainaina Has Written Since the...
A new Website has collected everything published by Binyavanga Wainaina since his writing career began in the late 1990s. The site, Planetbinya.org, is run by Isaac Otidi Amuke. This “unofficial...
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The Brittle Paper Literary Awards: New Date for the Announcement of Winners
The announcement of the winners of the inaugural Brittle Paper Literary Awards was scheduled for 23 September 2017. However, a change in our plans has ensured that we are unable to go ahead with this...
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Dinaw Mengestu and Nadifa Mohamed Have New Work in Freeman’s Magazine
Dinaw Mengestu and Nadifa Mohammed both have new fiction forthcoming in the new fourth issue of Freeman’s magazine. Titled “The Future of New Writing,” the issue collects work by “29 passengers we...
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Zukiswa Wanner Calls Out Misogyny in South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe, Takes...
Zukiswa Wanner has called out misogyny in South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe, taking on politicians and the media in the three countries. In an essay in Mail & Guardian, titled “Three Countries....
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Lesley Nneka Arimah Picked for the US National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35”...
Lesley Nneka Arimah has been picked for the US National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” list of 2017, on the strength of her debut short story collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky....
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes Is the Cover Star for Africa in Dialogue’s Hotly...
The hotly anticipated first issue of the interview magazine Africa in Dialogue has a cover star: Nii Ayikwei Parkes. Parkes, that Ghanaian writer with gorgeous dreadlocks who chaired this year’s Caine...
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What Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Imbolo Mbue Are Reading This Summer
The Washington Post recently asked some writers which book they would be reading for the summer, and two of the featured writers were Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Imbolo Mbue. Adichie, whose latest...
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Kopano Matlwa, JJ Bola, Masande Ntshanga: Pontas Agency Novelists Get US...
Pontas Literary Agency, which represents Tram 83 author Fiston Mwanza Mujila and The Fishermen author Chigozie Obioma, has set publication dates for novels by eight of its authors. They include South...
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In Her Debut Memoir, Sisonke Msimang Writes About Childhood, Exile and...
Sisonke Msimang’s new memoir, Always Another Country, is published in South Africa by Jonathan Ball Publishers. The account of her “exile childhood in Zambia and Kenya, young adulthood and college...
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Opportunity for African Writers | The 2018 Gerald Kraak Award Just Reopened...
The 2018 Gerald Kraak Award just reopened for submissions. The award had earlier closed for submissions on 31 July but, in a lucky twist for people who missed out, made the decision “due to a...
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All You Need to Know about Saraba’s Launch of Its First Print Issue
After a hiatus that felt like forever, Saraba Magazine, which was founded in 2009 by Emmanuel Iduma and Dami Ajayi, is back. And it has done so in grand style, with a print issue titled Transitions....
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The Brittle Paper Award for Poetry: Meet the Nominees
To mark our seventh anniversary on August 1, 2017, we announced the inaugural Brittle Paper Literary Awards, to recognize the finest, original pieces of African writing published online. The awards...
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After Selling Out at Writivism Festival, Is J.J. Bola’s No Place To Call Home...
News is that J.J. Bola’s debut novel, No Place to Call Home: Love, Loss, Belonging, sold out at the 2017 Writivism Festival. It sold out in the festival’s first two days, a development Writivism’s...
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Africa In Dialogue’s Visually Appealing First Issue Is Out
Africa in Dialogue‘s hotly anticipated first issue just dropped, and it is a visually appealing one. The colourful 55-page release collects eleven revealing interviews of writers, filmmakers and...
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Expound Magazine Releases Its 11th Issue
Expound magazine has released its Issue No 11. The magazine, known for its visually arresting covers, chose this time to flip cover image upside down. There are short stories: Yejide Kilanko’s...
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Ikeogu Oke Awarded the 2017 NLNG Prize for His Poetry Collection The Heresiad
Ikeogu Oke has been awarded the 2017 NLNG Prize for his poetry collection, The Heresiad. Alongside him on the shortlist were Tanure Ojaide, for Songs of Myself: Quartet, and Ogaga Ifowodo, for A Good...
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The Brittle Paper Award for Fiction: Meet the Nominees
To mark our seventh anniversary on August 1, 2017, we announced the inaugural Brittle Paper Literary Awards, to recognize the finest, original pieces of African writing published online. The awards...
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Get Ready for the 2017 Lagos International Poetry Festival, Featuring Chris...
The 2017 Lagos International Poetry Festival is around the corner. The event, themed “Bridges From Walls,” will bring together 30 poets, writers and artists from around the world, in a feast of...
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Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (Nearly) Claims Its Fourth Award of 2017
Yaa Gyasi’s hot debut novel, Homegoing, just fell short of bagging its fourth award of 2017, following wins of the National Book Critics Circle Award’s John Leonard Prize, the 2017 PEN Hemingway Award...
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The Single Story Foundation’s First Issue Is Here
The Single Story Foundation (TSSF) journal has released its first issue. Founded by Murewa Olubela, the journal is a nonprofit that provides storytelling opportunities for Africans at home and in...
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