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“A Masterpiece”| Diriye Osman Weighs Juliane Okot Bitek’s Poetry Collection...
Juliane Okot Bitek’s Poetry Collection, 100 Days, was published last year. The poems were “inspired by the quiet homage to the 1994 Rwanda Genocide that Wangechi Mutu started posting on social media...
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Writing Black Canadas | Transition’s Issue 124 Has Wole Soyinka, Profiles...
Transition magazine has announced its Issue 124. Titled “Writing Black Canadas,” the issue marks the Canadian confederation’s 150th anniversary and celebrates over four hundred years of Black presence...
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Burundi’s Pacifique Irankunda Awarded a $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction...
Burundian writer Pacifique Irankunda has been awarded a $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. The grant is for the completion of his book, The Times of Stories, which the judges have called “one...
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The Brittle Paper Award for Essays/Think Pieces: 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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Event: Aminatta Forna in Conversation at Oxford University
Aminatta Forna will be in conversation with Elleke Boehmerat, Oxford Professor of World Literature in English, for an event at Oxford University titled “Memoir and Memory.” The conversation will be...
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Chimamanda Adichie Covers The New York Times Style Magazine’s “The Greats”...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of the seven artists on seven covers of The New York Times Style Magazine T’s “The Greats” issue, a celebration of people who are “masters in their fields.” The other...
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Africa39 Author and Caine Prize Winner Mary Watson’s New Novel Arrives in 2018
Mary Watson, Africa39 author and winner of the 2008 Caine Prize, will have her third book released in February 2018. The Young Adult novel, titled The Wren Hunt, comes after her 2004 short story...
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Chike Frankie Edozien’s Lives of Great Men | Inside Nigeria’s First Memoir...
Chike Frankie Edozien, professor of journalism at New York University, has a remarkable book forthcoming. The memoir, titled Lives of Great Men, is 266 pages of what it means to be gay in Nigeria—the...
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The Brittle Paper Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir: 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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Brittle Paper Poet, Ademola Enoch, Wins Goal.com’s Essay Contest
Early September, we announced the football essay contest organised by Goal.com Nigeria. We are elated to announce now that the contest has been won by a poet we published: Ademola Enoch. Ademola Enoch...
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The Brittle Paper Anniversary Award: 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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A Masterpiece | Diriye Osman Weighs Juliane Okot Bitek’s Poetry Collection...
Juliane Okot Bitek’s Poetry Collection, 100 Days, was published last year. The poems were “inspired by the quiet homage to the 1994 Rwanda Genocide that Wangechi Mutu started posting on social media...
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A Letter to All Kenyans from Binyavanga Wainaina or Binyavanga wa Muigai
OVER THE PAST few years, I have come to believe in honoring my ancestors. This has become a very deep part of my spirituality. I discovered this in South Africa, where I spent six months this year...
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Please Donate to Nadifa Mohamed’s GoFundMe for Victims of Mogadishu Terror...
Following the terrorist attack in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, which claimed 385 lives, novelist Nadifa Mohamed is leading efforts to raise funds for the survivors. She has teamed up with...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Micronovel Is About Melania Trump
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie officially has a new hobby: fictionalizing the Trumps. Last year, her much-discussed short story, “The Arrangements,” in The New York Times Book Review, focused on Donald...
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Teju Cole’s Blind Spot Is a Finalist for the 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture...
Teju Cole’s Blind Spot has been shortlisted for the 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook Awards. The book, a fascinating blend of text and images, was named in the First PhotoBook category. Founded in...
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The Manchester Review’s Issue 18 Is All African Speculative Fiction,...
The Manchester Review has dedicated its entire Issue 18 to speculative fiction from Africa, and among the contributors are Nnedi Okorafor and Lauren Beukes. Read: Nnedi Okorafor, Igoni Barrett, Tendai...
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55 Years After Makerere Conference, University of London’s SOAS to Host...
Fifty-five years after the founding fathers of modern African literature gathered in Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda to try and define what “African Literature” should be, the University of...
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All the Events at the 2017 Lagos International Poetry Festival
Two weeks ago, we announced the third edition of the Lagos International Poetry Festival, set to happen from 1-5 November. Founded in 2015 by the performance poet Efe Paul Azino, author of For Broken...
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The Short Story Is Dead, Long Live the Short Story Announces 2017 Shortlist
The shortlist for The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! has been announced. The prize is organised by Black Letter Media, a full service print and digital publishing and bookselling...
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