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Nominate a Writer for the Fonlon-Nichols Award for African Literature
Nominate a creative writer for the Fonlon-Nichols Award by 1 November 2018. This award, established in 1992 to honor Bernard Fonlon and Lee Nichols, seeks works that cherish and contribute to both...
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The 2018 African Literature Association (ALA) Book Awards | Call for Nominations
Submissions have begun for the 2018 African Literature Association (ALA) Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is 1 November 2018. The African Literature Association (ALA) is the official...
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Enter for the K & L Prize for African Literature
Submissions have begun for the 2019 K & L Prize for African Literature. The $1,000 prize, which is in its first year, is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction by an African. It...
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Quramo Writers’ Prize 2018 Unveils Top 5 Finalists
Lagos – 10/10/18: Quramo Publishing has unveiled the Top 5 finalists of the Quramo Writers’ Prize 2018, two weeks after announcing the Top 10 finalists. The winner of the 2018 edition of the prize...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Turns 15: The Best Moments of a...
“It wasn’t the first novel I wrote,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told the audience at the University of Nairobi, during her lecture in honour of Kwani? Magazine’s 10th anniversary, and then she joked: “I...
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The New Academy Prize and the Legacy of Literary Prizes in Africa
Maryse Conde, a French Guadeloupean author of I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem (1986), Segu (1987), A Season in Rihata (1988), and Tree of Life (1992) among other books won the Alternative to the Nobel...
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Nuruddin Farah’s 14th Novel, North Of Dawn, Explores the Lives of Somali...
Celebrated Somali writer Nuruddin Farah’s new novel will be out on 4 December 2018. The 384-page North of Dawn, forthcoming from Penguin Random House, is the 72-year-old’s 14th novel. One of the...
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The Freedom Artist, Ben Okri’s New Novel Forthcoming in January 2019, Is a...
Ben Okri has a new novel forthcoming in January 2019. The Nigerian novelist-poet-essayist, who is the only black African to receive the Booker Prize, in 1991 for his The Famished Road, had the...
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#LIPFest18 | Register for Poetry Workshops with Kwame Dawes, Nick Makoha,...
The 2018 Lagos International Poetry Festival (#LIPFest18) is offering workshops by some of the biggest names in contemporary African poetry. Much-honoured Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes, co-founder of the...
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Un-Silencing Queer Nigeria: The Language of Emotional Truth | Five Writers in...
To mark BRITTLE PAPER‘s 7th anniversary in 2017, we organised two conversations on our Facebook page. The second, themed “Un-Silencing Queer Nigeria: The Language of Emotional Truth,” took place on 5...
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Alain Mabanckou’s 11th Novel, Black Moses, Wins 2018 Hurston-Wright Legacy...
Alain Mabanckou’s Black Moses has won the 2018 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. The Congolese writer and UCLA professor’s 11th novel, which was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, won...
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Opportunity for African Poets | Enter for the 2019 Brunel International...
Submissions for the 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize will begin on 30 October and end on 12 December 2018. Previous winners include Somalia’s Warsan Shire in 2013, Ethiopia’s Liyou...
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Ake Festival 2018 Begins, Headlined by Nuruddin Farah, Featuring Paul Beatty,...
The 2018 Ake Arts and Book Festival begins today. Themed “Fantastical Futures,” this year’s event, moved to Lagos from Abeokuta where it had always been held, will focus on a reimagined Africa and...
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Writivism Is Listing 56 Ugandan Writers to Mark the Country’s 56th...
To mark Uganda’s 56th Independence anniversary, Writivism is highlighting works by 56 writers from the country. The four-part series, which will feature writers active between 1934 and 2018, was...
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Cameroonian Scholar Olivette Otele Is the First Black Female History...
Cameroonian scholar Olivette Otele has become the first Black female History professor in the UK. The colonial and postcolonial studies expert was appointed professorship and a chair in History at...
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Review: Chike Frankie Edozien’s Lives Of Great Men | Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
WE ARE MORE THAN TRAGEDY: A REVIEW OF CHIKE FRANKIE EDOZIEN’S LIVES OF GREAT MEN To read on the news about queerness in Africa is to read about secrecy, mob assault, imprisonment, asylum,...
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Exclusive Photos | An Evening with Chimamanda at The Workstation, Victoria...
On 22 September, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Nigerian publishers, Narrative Landscape Press, hosted her in Victoria Island, Lagos. The event, themed “An Evening with Chimamanda,” took place at The...
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Ake Festival 2018 | Two Screenings of Bolaji Kekere-Ekun’s Psychological...
The Ake Book and Arts Festival officially kicked off on Thursday the 24th with mostly workshops and community outreach events. Friday is when all the goodies lined up on the program begins. There are...
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The 2018 Brittle Paper Award for Fiction: Meet the 5 Nominees
The shortlists for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards were announced earlier this month. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by...
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Opportunity for Poets | Enter for the 2019 Sillerman First Book Prize for...
Submissions for the 2019 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets have begun. The 2018 Prize was awarded to Botswana’s TJ Dema, for her manuscript The Careless Seamstress. Backed by the...
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