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The Casual Observation That Inspired Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers
When it comes to big books, it is often easy to guess what inspired them. His work as a journalist inspired Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel. The stories her parents told inspired Chimamanda Ngozi...
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Ah! The White Race Has Lost a Good Writer | 32 Years Later, Wole Soyinka...
Following V.S. Naipaul’s passing two weeks ago, we ran a collection of the things that some of Africa’s leading thinkers—Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna,...
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Short Story Day Africa Announces 2018 Flow Workshops | How to Apply
Short Story Day Africa (SSDA), the continent’s most important institution for short fiction, have announced their 2018 Flow Workshops in partnership with the Goethe-Institut. They are inviting...
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Enter for OkadaBooks and Union Bank’s N850K Campus Writing Challenge to be...
Nigeria’s leading e-publisher OkadaBooks has partnered with Union Bank of Nigeria, one of the country’s biggest financial institutions, for a writing contest worth N850,000 to the winners and...
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The 2018 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult African Literature Goes to Kenya’s...
The 2018 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult African Literature has gone to Kenya’s Kinyanjui Kombani for his book Finding Colombia. Kinyanjui received a cash prize of $10,000 CDN, while his publisher,...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Enter for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story...
The 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is open for submissions. An initiative of Commonwealth Writers, the prize recognizes the best piece of unpublished short fiction, from 2,000 to 5,000 words, in...
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Photos | Wole Soyinka Hosts Private Screening of Onyeka Nwelue’s...
In April, we brought news of Nigerian writer and cultural entrepreneur Onyeka Nwelue’s new Igbo-language film, Agwaetiti Obiụtọ. “Agwaetiti Obiụtọ” is Igbo and means “Island of Happiness,” which is...
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Goethe-Institut’s #AFROYOUNGADULT, Curated by Zukiswa Wanner, Aims to...
Goethe-Institut is on a search to identify the best new talents in African Young Adult literature. This is welcome news. The CODE Burt Award for Young Adult African Literature, awarded last week to...
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Leye Adenle’s Second Crime Novel, When Trouble Sleeps, Serves Up Thrilling...
In 2016, Cassava Republic Press published Nigerian writer Leye Adenle’s crime novel Easy Motion Tourist, a thriller that serves up Lagos in its heat and that became the perfect introduction to the...
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The 2018 Open Book Festival Begins in Cape Town
The 2018 Open Book Festival has begun at The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town. The event, which is in its seventh year, will last from 5-9 September, with further activities at The District 6 Museum...
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Faber & Faber to Reissue Petina Gappah Short Story as Part of 90th...
To mark its 90th anniversary in 2019, UK publishing house Faber & Faber has announced that it will reissue short stories by some of its most celebrated authors whom it has described as “masters of...
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Watch the Book Trailer for A Stranger’s Pose, Emmanuel Iduma’s Mix of...
Forthcoming from Cassava Republic Press—globally on 16 October, 2018 and in the US on 7 November, 2018—Nigerian writer and art critic Emmanuel Iduma’s A Stranger’s Pose is a mix of memoir, travelogue,...
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Wayetu Moore’s Debut Novel, She Would Be King, Blends Historical Fiction and...
Liberian writer Wayetu Moore‘s debut novel is out. Published in September by Graywolf Press, She Would Be King is a blend of historical fiction and magical realism that retells the formation of...
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Tade Thompson Explains Why We Should Stop Talking About “The Rise” of African...
With the increased visibility of African speculative and fantasy fiction (African SFF, for short), and more and more writers working in the genre, and the unprecedented success of such names as...
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Tsitsi Dangarembga to Curate 2019 Berlin Festival of African Writers
Tsitsi Dangarembga has been tapped to curate the 2019 Berlin Festival of African Writers. The event, themed “Transitioning from Migration,” will be held from 4-7 April 2019. It is presented by the...
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Afrofuturism Is Not for Africans Living in Africa, Says Mohale Mashigo in New...
South African novelist Mohale Mashigo, author of the UJ Prize-winning The Yearning, has some interesting opinions on Afrofuturism and its place. In the preface to her forthcoming collection of short...
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The 2018 Brittle Paper Awards: Announcing the Shortlists
We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by...
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Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize...
Leading arts & politics collective Chimurenga has been awarded the Vera List Center for Art and Politics’ 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice. The announcement was made at the...
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The Revealing Reason Why Aminatta Forna Likes Writing Male Characters
Last year, Somali writer and visual artist Diriye Osman, author of the Polaris Award-winning story collection Fairytales for Lost Children and the forthcoming novel We Once Belonged to the Sea,...
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Enter for the Nine Dots Prize and Win $100,000 and a Book Deal
The Nine Dots Prize, “a prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues,” is offering writers an opportunity to win $100,000 and a book deal with Cambridge University Press....
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