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Chapter Thirty-Three | Binyavanga Wainaina | Memoir
From Binyavanga Wainaina: This is the last chapter of my book. One Day I Will Write About This Place. I had not come out as gay when this was published. I thought of coming out as gay in this book. I...
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Tickets on Sale for 2018 Stage Adaptation of Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen
Months ago we announced that Chigozie Obioma’s multi-awarded debut novel, The Fishermen, had been picked for stage adaptation. The production is by the British theatre company New Perspectives, in...
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Abantu Festival 2017: The Star-Studded Guest List
The guest list for the 2017 Abantu Book Festival has been revealed. The event, to be held from 7-10 December 2017, is set to be graced by everybody from Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of the classic,...
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Listen to Chris Abani Talk James Baldwin, Yoruba Myths and the Refugee...
Novelist and poet Chris Abani was recently in a conversation with Paul Holdengraber, Director of New York Public Library (NYPL)’s Public Programming. The conversation, which took place via a phone...
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Must Watch! | Wikipedia Parodies Okonkwo and Obierika in Video Ad
Perhaps you have heard of or even seen the Wikipedia ad campaign, Things Come Together, built around Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. It is a short film created by Anakle, a digital agency in Lagos....
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Black Paper: Teju Cole’s 3-Day Performa17 Photo Exhibition Is Here
From 2-4 November, Teju Cole will be holding the first live performance of his photography in New York City, as part of a series organised by Performa which will run from 1-19 November. Titled Black...
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Ventures Africa Magazine Hosts Lola Shoneyin in Twitter Chat
Ahead of the 2017 Ake Arts and Book Festival this month, the festival founder Lola Shoneyin will be in a Twitter chat with Ventures Africa magazine today at 12 p.m. to discuss “African Literature and...
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Sharja International Book Fair: Lauri Kubuitsile’s The Scattering Awarded...
Botswana’s Lauri Kubuitsile has been awarded the Best International Fiction Prize at the Sharja International Book Fair, for her novel The Scattering. Billed as “the world’s third largest book fair,”...
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Goodreads Awards 2017: Adichie, Nnedi Okorafor, Ayobami Adebayo, Lesley...
Goodreads has announced nominations for its 2017 awards, and four authors having massively successful years—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nnedi Okorafor, Lesley Nneka Arimah and Ayobami Adebayo—are...
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Taiye Selasi Wants People to Stop Saying That “South Africa Isn’t African...
Taiye Selasi has argued against suggestions that South Africa’s cultural atmosphere “isn’t African enough.” She discussed it while speaking with Huffington Post during her visit to the country for the...
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Lesley Arimah Beats Booker Finalist Mohsin Hamid and Hari Kunzru to $50,000...
Lesley Nneka Arimah has been awarded the $50,000 Kirkus Prize for Fiction for her short story collection What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, beating Mohsin Hamid’s Booker-shortlisted novel...
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Video | Watch Nnedi Okorafor’s TED Global Talk on Science Fiction and...
Months ago we announced that Nnedi Okorafor had been named a TED Global Speaker for the 2017 conference in Arusha, Tanzania. Now a video of her talk, titled “Sci-Fi Stories That Imagine a Future...
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Abantu Book Festival 2017: Apply to Join Zukiswa Wanner and Nthikeng...
Ahead of the 2017 Abantu Book Festival in South Africa in December, Zukiswa Wanner and Nthikeng Mohlele have been booked to teach creative writing masterclasses, and applications are open for writers....
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Event: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Deliver 2nd Annual Eudora Welty Lecture on...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be delivering the second annual Eudora Welty Lecture at Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C., after which she will receive a $20,000 honorarium. The event will be held at...
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Photos | Chimamanda Adichie Honored at Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Awards
Chimamanda Adichie recently attended Harper’s Bazaar‘s Women of the Year Awards. She was an honoree at the event and shared a heartfelt message on Instagram, thanking the magazine for what she...
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Opportunity for Editors | Apply to Be Assistant Editor at Wasafiri Magazine
Wasafiri, the UK’s leading literary magazine for international voices, has invited applications for the position of Assistant Editor. The job will be part-time, with the successful candidate working...
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NoViolet Bulawayo Is an Advocate for This Zimbabwean Digital Initiative to...
NoViolet Bulawayo, Booker Prize-shortlisted and multi-award-winning author of We Need New Names, is helping create awareness and support for Reading Zimbabwe, a Zimbabwean digital initiative aimed at...
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International Dublin Literary Award 2018: Imbolo Mbue, Yaa Gyasi, Yewande...
The longlist for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award has been announced, and five Africans are on it: Cameroun’s Imbolo Mbue for Behold the Dreamers, Ghana’s Yaa Gyasi for Homegoing,...
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Durban Is Africa’s First City to Be Designated UNESCO City of Literature
For the first time since the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) launched its City of Literature programme in 2004, an African city has been selected. Durban,...
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Helon Habila and Maaza Mengiste to Judge Fall For The Book’s New American...
Helona Habila and Maaza Mengiste have been announced as judges for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award. The novelists will preside over submissions alongside Booker and...
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