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The Man Booker Prizes, African Writers, and the Deceptive Politics of...
I got to know about the Man Booker Prize in 2008, from the front cover of a pirated copy of Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah lying about in our home. On it, this white front cover of Achebe’s...
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South Sudanese Poet Marial Awendit Wins 2018 Babishai-Niwe Poetry Award
Marial Awendit, from South Sudan, emerges winner in the #Babishai2018 prize pic.twitter.com/i9jXUDYj6d — #Babishai2018 (@BNPoetryAward) August 5, 2018 South Sudanese poet Marial Awendit has won the...
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Fred Khumalo on His Novel, Dancing The Death Drill, and the Resurgence of...
Fred Khumalo’s 2017 novel Dancing The Death Drill is based on the sinking World War I warship, the SS Mendi. Tasked with transporting black South Africans to the Western Front during the War, the SS...
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Apply to the Write with Style Workshop with Oris Aigbokhaevbolo
Words run the world: On the internet, and in novels, magazines, films, songs, and even love letters. How do you make your own collection of words and sentences standout? How do you become a better...
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Watch the Trailer for the Stage Adaptation of Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen
In May of 2017, we announced preparations for the stage adaptation of Chigozie Obioma’s debut novel The Fishermen. Later in November, we announced that tickets had gone on sale for the production. Now...
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Five Beautiful Acts of Generosity by African Writers
In the midst of the pressure to deliver under that heavy tag “African Writer,” in the back and forth between critics and between writers and between critics and writers, in the midst of big novels and...
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This Mournable Body, the Last Book in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy,...
This Mournable Body, the last book in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s trilogy which includes the modern classic Nervous Conditions (1988) and The Book of Not (2006), is finally here. The 296-page novel is...
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I Started Reading and Just Stopped Halfway and Thought—This is Really Bad |...
VS Naipaul, Nobel Prize and Booker Prize-winning novelist and nonfiction writer, passed on days ago at 85 years of age. As is the norm, countless think pieces have appeared on his life. While...
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In Conversation with Hadiza El-Rufai, Author of An Abundance of Scorpions |...
Hadiza El-Rufai, founder of the Yasmin El-Rufai Foundation, debuted a novel this year, An Abundance of Scorpions, for which she recently went on a book tour in Lagos. An Abundance of Scorpions is...
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Reneilwe Malatji’s Short Story Collection, Love Interrupted, is an Intimate...
Reneilwe Malatji’s debut short story collection, Love Interrupted, was published on August 7 in the U.S., by Catalyst Press. Its stories offer an intimate portrait of women—sisters, aunts, mothers,...
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Sisonke Msimang Profiled in The Wall Street Journal
South African writer and activist Sisonke Msimang, author of the memoir Always Another Country and the forthcoming collection of essays The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela, was recently profiled in The...
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10 Questions with Oris Aigbokhaevbolo, Facilitator of Write with Style Workshop
Nigerian writer Oris Aigbokhaevbolo is organising a workshop in Lagos. The Write with Style Workshop will focus on how to write reviews, interviews, reportage, fiction, and creative nonfiction. It...
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Ahmed Ismail Yusuf’s Story Collection, The Lion’s Binding Oath, Shows Somalis...
Earlier this week, we brought news of Reneilwe Malatji’s short story collection Love Interrupted, published by Catalyst Press. But it isn’t the only book that Catalyst Press has released in recent...
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#SSDA2018 | Review of Michael Yee’s God’s Skin | Moso Victor Sematlane
We announced that we would begin publishing reviews of the top three stories from the Short Story Day Africa Prize. The stories, alongside 18 others, appear in ID: New Short Fiction from Africa,...
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Ama Ata Aidoo, Haruna Ayesha Attah Among Guests for 2018 Accra International...
The 2018 Accra International Book Festival will be held from 6-9 September, to coincide with the International Literacy Day on September 8. The festival theme is “Amplify,” which “emphasises the power...
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Teju Cole’s Response to His Work Being Loved by Philip Roth and V.S. Naipaul...
Teju Cole is a Great Essayist. We know. The essayist-novelist-photographer-art critic was recently in Lagos, we reported last month, for an event at Jazzhole. There, he was in yet another enlightening...
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Read an Excerpt from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s New Novel, This Mournable Body
Earlier this month, we brought news of the publication of This Mournable Body, the final novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy which includes the modern classic Nervous Conditions (1988) and...
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Poet Caleb Femi’s Play, Goldfish Bowl, Inspiringly Reflects on His Being Shot...
Caleb Femi is a poet, filmmaker, and photographer. In 2016, he was named the first Young People’s Poet Laureate of London, a position in which he guided and led conversations in poetry and social life...
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A Portrait of Iconic Gay African Writers | This Video of Binyavanga Wainaina...
Four years ago, Binyavanga Wainaina visited Diriye Osman, the fabulously gay author of the Polaris Award-winning story collection Fairytales for Lost Children and the forthcoming novel We Once...
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Kola Tubosun Writes About Wole Soyinka’s Art-Filled House in Abeokuta Forest
At 86 years of age, Wole Soyinka’s life lives on the boundary between—to use Teju Cole’s phrasing on a different subject—the contemporary and the historical. Perhaps there has been no African writer...
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