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Watch Trailer | The Poets is a Documentary Film Celebrating Niyi Osundare and...
The Poets, a new documentary film, celebrates the friendship between the Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare and the Sierra Leonean poet Syl Cheney-Coker. It is directed by New York-based filmmaker Chivas...
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Barack Obama Lists His Favourite Books by African Writers
Former US president Barack Obama has listed some of his favourite literature books by Africans ahead of his visit to his father’s country, Kenya. He posted it on Facebook to his 55 million followers....
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BookShyBooks Lists 12 Female Zimbabwean Writers You Should Know and Read
BookShyBooks blog, run by Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, has compiled a list of 12 female Zimbabwean writers and their works. The list contains such known titles as Tsitsi Dangaremgba’s novels Nervous...
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Tomi Adeyemi Narrates Frightening Encounter with Racist White Policemen
Tomi Adeyemi, author of the million-dollar Children of Blood and Bone trilogy, shared to her 43,000 Twitter followers an encounter she had with four racist white policemen in her home. The novelist,...
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Poetry x Fashion | Attend a Class with Brunel Prize Winner Theresa Lola in...
Brunel Prize 2018 joint winner Theresa Lola will be teaching a class on poetry and fashion. The class will “explore how the textures of fashion and poetry intertwine, before using clothing as stimulus...
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Vote for Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Adichie and Nnedi Okorafor on The...
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Nnedi Okorafor have been longlisted for The Alternative Nobel Prize, the only three Africans nominated. The 47-name longlist includes such heavyweight...
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Opportunity for East African Writers | Fellowship for Early Career Writers...
In the wake of Nigeria’s Dusty Manuscript Contest, it is encouraging to see Africa Writers Trust rolling out a fellowship designed to help publishers and writers at the early stages of their career....
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Paging The God of Small Things Fans | Arundhati Roy is Coming to Cape Town...
Arundhati Roy, famous Indian activist and bestselling author of the Booker Prize winning The God of Small Things and the Women’s Prize longlisted The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, will be in Cape Town...
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My Greatest Inspiration in Filmmaking: Kunle Afolayan | Onyeka Nwelue
As the Africa Film Trinidad & Tobago opens tomorrow, my first fictional Igbo Language feature film, Agwaetiti Obiuto, will screen on 24 July in Port of Spain. I was there last year where my...
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Elnathan John Among Judges for 2019 Man Booker International Prize
Nigerian novelist Elnathan John is among the judges for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. The panel includes writer, translator and president of English PEN Maureen Freely; philosopher...
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Sudanese Fiction: 5 Books Recommended by Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela has recommended five books for readers seeking familiarity with Sudanese fiction. Aboulela’s own work is often used as an introduction to the literature of her country. She won the...
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The 2018 Writivism Festival Theme Is Legac(y)ies
The 2018 Writivism Festival, themed “Legac(y)ies,” will be held from 17-19 August. The event, which is in its sixth year, will take place at The National Theatre and The Square Place, both in Kampala,...
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With Radio Sunrise, Anietie Isong Is the First Nigerian Winner of the...
Anietie Isong’s novel Radio Sunrise has won the 2018 McKitterick Prize, making him the first Nigerian to take home the award. Anietie received the prize at the Authors’ Awards ceremony at the Royal...
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Ghanaian Booker Party | Esi Edugyan Longlisted for 2018 Man Booker Prize, as...
Ghanaian-Canadian writer Esi Edugyan is on the longlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, for her third novel Washington Black. She was previously shortlisted for her bestselling second novel Half Blood...
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Event | An Evening with Teju Cole at Jazzhole, Lagos
Teju Cole will be in Lagos for an event on 29 July, Sunday, themed “An Evening with Teju Cole.” “An Evening with Teju Cole” will take place at literature, music and art haven Jazzhole, located at 168...
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Emmanuel Iduma’s A Stranger’s Pose Mixes Memoir, Travelogue, and Photography,...
Nigerian writer and art critic Emmanuel Iduma is the editor of Saraba magazine and a faculty member of the MFA Art Writing program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. His first book, a novel, was...
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The Dragonfly Sea | All You Need to Know About Yvonne Owuor’s Forthcoming...
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s first novel, Dust, published in 2014 by Kwani? in Kenya and by Penguin Random House worldwide, focused on a troubled family. A man, Odidi Oganga, is killed on the streets of...
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Mizz President | Mapule Mohulatsi Has a New Children’s Book Out
Mapule Mohulatsi’s new children’s book, Mizz President, is all about South African Girl Power. Written by Mohulatsi and illustrated by Mary-An Hampton, the 32-page work is set for release in August...
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Romeo Oriogun Named a Harvard 2018-19 Fellow, to Complete New Volume on Queer...
Brunel Prize 2017 winner Romeo Oriogun has been named a 2018-19 W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. His is a...
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Yvonne Owuor Attacked in Nairobi by City Inspectorate, Arrested and Charged...
Reports reaching us have it that Kenyan novelist Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, author of Dust, was attacked and arrested in Nairobi by the Nairobi County Inspectorate, infamously known as the “kanjo.”...
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