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Camerounian Author Patrice Nganang Arrested for Criticizing the President
Patrice Nganyang, a Camerounian author and professor of literature at New York University, has been arrested for criticizing the country’s president, Paul Biya. The Daily Mail reports that he was...
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Lesley Nneka Arimah, Ayobami Adebayo Lead the 2017 9Mobile Prize for...
The 9Mobile Prize for Literature has announced its 2017 longlist. Founded in 2013 as the Etisalat Prize for Literature, the £15,000 award is the first pan-African literary prize created to honour only...
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The Short Story Is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Prize Awarded to...
The 2017 The Short Story Is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Prize has been awarded to Nigeria’s Mary Ononokpono—winner of the Golden Baobab Prize and two-time finalist for the Miles Morland...
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The Caine Prize Pays Tribute to Former Council Member Angeline Kamba
The Caine Prize has published a tribute to Dr Angeline Kamba, former member of the prize’s council, who passed on in September of this year at age 81. Wife to the first black Vice-Chancellor of the...
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Ayobami Adebayo Honoured at The Future Awards, Alongside WizKid, Davido and...
Ayobami Adebayo, author of the Baileys Prize-shortlisted novel Stay with Me, has been honoured at the 2017 The Future Awards, receiving The Future Awards Africa Prize for Arts and Culture. Also...
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Photos | Happy Birthday to Ainehi Edoro, Founder and Editor of Brittle Paper
One evening in mid-2010, in her apartment in Chicago, Ainehi Edoro, then a PhD student at Duke University, looked up at her husband and mentioned that she was starting a blog. On August 1 of that...
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Paris Review Editor Lorin Stein Resigns After Accusations of Sexual...
American critic Lorin Stein, editor of the prestigious, career-making literary journal Paris Review, has resigned from his job after accusations of sexual misconduct at work. The New York Times...
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Nnedi Okorafor Releases First Issue of “Black Panther: Long Live the King.”...
The forthcoming Black Panther movie, starring Lupita Nyong’o, Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan, has generated a world of hype. Everyday, with each news, we melt in anticipation. To sustain the...
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Mabanckou, Mengestu, Shoneyin: The Caine Prize Recruits Big Names as 2018 Judges
For its 2018 edition, the Caine Prize has recruited a host of big names for its panel of judges. Alain Mabanckou, Dinaw Mengestu, Lola Shoneyin: it looks like an actual shortlist the Caine Prize...
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The 15 Artists Shortlisted for the 2018 Gerald Kraak Award
The Gerald Kraak Award has announced its 2018 shortlist, comprising 15 pieces of journalism, fiction, nonfiction, photography, and poetry. Founded in 2016, the Gerald Kraak Award aims to honour works...
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Photos | Ake Festival: Day 3 | Saraba’s Launch of Its First Print Issue
At the 2017 Ake Arts and Book Festival, Saraba magazine launched its first print issue. Themed Transitions, the issue features short fiction, reportage, travel writing, poetry, and photography. Its...
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How Petina Gappah Secured Zimbabwe’s Eligibility for the FT/Oppenheimer...
The Financial Times/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards is “designed to recognize artistic talent in emerging-market nations.” It honours winners in three categories—art, fiction, and film—with...
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Photos | London Launch of Chike Frankie Edozien’s Memoir “Lives of Great Men”
In October, we brought news of the publication of Lives of Great Men, a memoir by New York University journalism professor Chike Frankie Edozien, which is the first by a Nigerian to focus on...
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Bakwa Magazine Is Listing 100 Books of Cameroonian Literature in 100 Days |...
BAKWA, Cameroun’s leading Anglophone literary magazine, is listing 100 Camerounian literature books, with the hashtag #100daysofcameroonianliterature. The program, according to the magazine’s editor...
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Olumide Popoola to Curate Star-Studded 2018 Berlin Festival of African Writers
Olumide Popoola, Nigerian-German author of When We Speak of Nothing, will be curating a star-studded 2018 festival of African writers in Berlin. The event, themed “Writing in Migration,” is presented...
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Alain Mabanckou and Alexis Okeowo Longlisted for 2018 PEN America Awards
Congolese star author Alain Mabanckou’s 11th novel Black Moses and Nigerian The New Yorker staff-writer Alexis Okeowo’s nonfiction book A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting...
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Photos | The Rogbonko Project: Inside Aminatta Forna’s Inspiring, 15-Year...
When literary people think of “building community,” they do it in expected ways—founding workshops, founding publishing houses, founding magazines and journals, building mentorship networks. But when...
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Binyavanga Wainaina, Chigozie Obioma, Hawa J Golakai, Megan Ross: 15 Writers...
For the Christmas season, we asked 15 writers and editors to tell us what they would be reading. Binyavanga Wainaina, Chigozie Obioma, Hawa Jande Golakai, Gaamangwe Joy Mogami, Megan Ross, Gbenga...
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The 2017 Short Story Day Africa Prize Withdraws Nominations for Two...
Short Story Day Africa has withdrawn the nominations of two writers initially announced on their 2017 prize longlist. The stories by the two writers failed to adhere to the prize’s rule against...
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Juliane Okot Bitek Awarded the 2017 Glenna Luschei Poetry Prize for “100...
Kenyan-born Ugandan poet Juliane Okot Bitek has been awarded the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, for her collection 100 Days. Published in 2016 by the University of Alberta Press, 100...
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