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Opportunity for Zambian Writers | Submit to the Kalemba Short Story Prize
The inaugural edition of the Kalemba Short Story Prize is open for submissions. Organised by Ukusefya WORDS, it is a yearly prize awarded to outstanding unpublished fiction written by Zambian...
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Why Chimamanda Adichie and Teju Cole Signed This International Appeal to...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have joined a group of more than 50 prominent writers—including Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and George Saunders—who have co-signed a letter to China’s...
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Read Petina Gappah’s Afterword to the New German Edition of Ngugi’s...
Dekolonisierung des Denkens, the new German edition of Ngugi’s iconic collection of essays, Decolonising the Mind, is coming with something major: five afterwords by five African writers from...
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Film Rights to Jacqui L’Ange’s “The Seed Thief” Acquired by Indie Producer
Jacqui L’Ange’s debut novel, The Seed Thief, will be made into a film. According to The Reading List, rights to the novel have been bought by indie producer Rodrigo Chiaro for an “international...
View ArticleOpportunity for Nigerian Poets | Submit to PIN’s November Poetry Challenge
Poets in Nigeria (PIN) has made a call for submissions for the November edition of its 10-Day Poetry Challenge. This month’s contest, which is “geared towards stimulating consistent and spontaneous...
View ArticleImbolo Mbue Has New Fiction in Bakwa Magazine
Million-dollar novelist Imbolo Mbue has a new short story out in Bakwa. Titled “A Reversal,” the story is 596 words of loss and belonging and fear. The work, Bakwa states, was first read by Mbue at the...
View ArticleCommonwealth Prize Author Abidemi Sanusi Launches Website to Help Writers...
Nigerian digital entrepreneur and 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize finalist Abidemi Sanusi has launched a Website dedicated to helping writers to monetize and improve their art through freelance work,...
View ArticleKayo Chingonyi’s Poetry Collection, “Kumukanda,” Is Receiving Praise
Kayo Chingonyi’s poetry draws from music and deals with masculinity and blackness. The Zambian, who is also a musician, is a notable presence in London poetry circles, with Vice describing him as “the...
View ArticleSouth African Literary Awards 2017: All the Winners
The winners of the 2017 South African Literary Awards have been announced. Here they are, with excerpts from their citations. The Literary Journalism Award, for a body of work, went to Don Makatile and...
View ArticleOpportunity for Writers and Visual Artists | Apply for the 2017 Artists in...
Applications are open for the 2017 Artists in Residency (AIR) programme, an initiative of Africa Centre “seeking high calibre African artists, in different stages of their development (from emerging to...
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#AkeFest2017 | Follow Brittle Paper’s Coverage of Ake Arts and Book Festival
Ake Arts and Book Festival is happening in Abeokuta, Nigeria—has been happening since 14 November, to end on 18 November. And Brittle Paper is right there to cover it with features, photos and...
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Goodreads Awards 2017: Vote Chimamanda Adichie’s “Dear Ijeawele” and Nnedi...
Earlier this month we announced the online voting for Goodreads’ 2017 awards. The first round saw nominations for four authors having massively successful years—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dear...
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Photos | Nommo Awards 2017: How Africa’s First Ever Speculative Fiction...
The announcement of the winners of the inaugural Nommo Awards took place at the ongoing 2017 Ake Arts and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The Nommo Awards, founded in 2016 by the African...
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Watch This Poetry Dance Film of Kayo Chingonyi’s “Kumukanda”
Zambian poet Kayo Chingonyi’s first full-length collection, Kumukanda, is receiving praise. The Guardian has hailed its “lyrical elegance” and “many nuanced portrayals and unflinching reflections.”...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Was Delayed at Paris Airport by Hostile Staff
The Atlantic recently published a conversation in which Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sat with Ta-Nehisi Coates and the magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss race relations and American...
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Wasafiri Magazine Releases “Issue 92: Winter 2017,” Featuring Ellah Allfrey,...
Wasafiri, the UK’s leading literary magazine for international voices, has released its “Issue 92: Winter 2017.” Founded in 1984 by its current editor Susheila Nasta, professor of Modern Literature at...
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Aminatta Forna’s Fourth Novel, “Happiness,” Arrives March 2018
Among writers of her generation, Aminatta Forna belongs in the higher ranks of critical acclaim. With her work translated into sixteen languages, she has been described, by the London Evening...
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#ThrowBack | In Conversation: Nuruddin Farah and Kwame Anthony Appiah
In 2004, Somalian novelist Nuruddin Farah and Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah sat for a conversation published in BOMB magazine. They discussed the state of things in Somalia then, how Farah...
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Teju Cole’s “Blind Spot” Is One of TIME’s Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017
Teju Cole’s Blind Spot has been named among TIME‘s Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017. The book, a beguiling blend of text and images, is ranked No 7 on a list that also includes Roxane Gay’s Hunger,...
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Photos | #AkeFest17: Cameroon-Nigeria Literary Exchange Participants in...
The 2017 Ake Arts and Book Festival took place from 14–18 November 2017, in Abeokuta, Nigeria. One of the event’s attractions was a roundtable conversation involving the participants of the...
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