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Kenyans Criticize The New York Times’ Publication of Victims’ Photos from...
Kenyans are rightly criticizing The New York Times‘ publication of victims’ photos from the January 15 Al Shabaab terrorist attack on Dusit D2 Hotel and Secret Gardens restaurant, Riverside Complex,...
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Translator Publishes List of 146 Books by 66 African Authors Selling in Chinese
A translator of English into Chinese, Bruce Humes, has published a list of 146 books by 66 African authors selling in China. In his list, some of the books, likely academic texts, are grouped under...
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Zoe Wicomb Talks Intersectionality, Reading Other Writers, and That Time When...
In a new interview in The Johannesburg Review of Books, South African novelist Zoe Wicomb revealed an error by Heinemann in their 1971 publication of Bessie Head’s novel Maru. The interview, excerpted...
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Laila Lalami’s Fourth Novel, The Other Americans, Is a Family Saga, a Murder...
Laila Lalami’s new novel is forthcoming on 26 March 2019 from Pantheon, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The 320-page The Other Americans traces the death of a Moroccan immigrant in the US whose...
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Read Chapter One of Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma’s second novel An Orchestra of Minorities was published this January. As part of The Summer Library’s “selected extracts from the best new books this summer,” The Monthly has provided...
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Mauritanian Blogger Mohamed Mkhaïtir Has Now Been in Jail for 5 Years
In December 2013, Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Mkhaïtir wrote a blogpost criticizing his country’s government for using religion to discriminate against minorities. On 5 January 2014, he was arrested...
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Photos | Pages & Palette Hosts Reading of Frankie Edozien’s Lives of Great...
Last December, Abuja bookstore Pages & Palette hosted a reading of Chike Frankie Edozien’s memoir Lives of Great Men. Published in the US by Team Angelica, in South Africa by Jacana Media, and in...
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Chimamanda Adichie Shares Photo with Wole Soyinka, Says He Is Her Guiding Light
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie posted a photo of herself with Wole Soyinka on Instagram yesterday, describing him as her “guiding light.” The photo, taken by Eghosa Imasuen, has her in a dress by...
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On the Shutdown of Zimbabwe | Tinashe Tafirenyika
The television is on mute, I can’t switch it off because I need the illusion of company. Everyone turned in early tonight. I am restless. In four days I’ve barely left the house, I almost miss my...
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Attend Narrative Landscape Press and Page & Palette’s Abuja Book Events for...
Publishing company Narrative Landscape Press and book promoter Page & Palette will be organizing two events around Oyinkan Braithwaite’s hot new novel My Sister, the Serial Killer in Abuja. The...
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Enkare Review Faces Backlash Over Graphic Short Story Comparing Paedophilia...
Twenty-six hours ago, Enkare Review magazine released its first issue of 2019, styled the Inclusivity Issue. Within minutes, backlash brewed on social media. A short story in the issue by Jekwu...
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Elnathan John’s Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide Is the Satirical Commentary You...
Nigerian novelist Elnathan John’s forthcoming book is the satirical commentary you want to read ahead of Nigeria’s February 16 elections. Portraying “the different Nigerians you are likely to meet at...
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Submit to Rising Literary Blog Syncity NG’s One-Year Anniversary Prose...
Rising literary blog Syncity NG will be celebrating its one-year anniversary with a prose competition and anthology. The competition, which comes with cash prizes and editing opportunities, will be...
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Photos from the 2nd Edition of Griots and Bards: Spoken Word, Poetry, Visual...
The second edition of Griots and Bards (GAB), a monthly village square of spoken word poetry, visual arts, music, and social conversations, was held on 20 December 2018, at The Thought Pyramid Art...
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Trifonia Melibea Obono’s La Bastarda, the First English-Language Novel by a...
Trifonia Melibea Obono’s La Bastarda, the first English-language novel by a woman from Equatorial Guinea, has been named an honour title for the inaugural Global Literature in Libraries Initiative...
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The University of Dar es Salaam to Host Ceremony for the 2018 Mabati-Cornell...
The 2018 winners of the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature winners will be honoured at the University of Dar es Salaam on February 15, at a ceremony organized by ALAF Ltd. The prize...
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PHOTOS | The Asmara Addis Literary Festival in Exile: a Pan-African Event for...
The inaugural Asmara Addis Literary Festival in Exile was held from 8–10 February 2019, in Brussels, Belgium. Founded by Eritrean-Ethiopian novelist Sulaiman Addonia, author of The Consequences of...
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Catalyst Press Books Gears Up for North America Releases of Peter Church’s...
On February 26, US-based publisher Catalyst Press Books will be releasing North America editions of the South African novelist Peter Church’s tech-thriller Crackerjack and the Nigerian novelist...
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How to Be a Nigerian Writer: Excerpt from Elnathan John’s Be(com)ing...
On February 6, Cassava Republic Press published Elnathan John’s Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide in Nigeria. Portraying “the different Nigerians you are likely to meet at home and abroad, on your way to...
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Writing and the Burden of Public Grief: In Conversation with Hawa Jande...
Hawa Jande Golakai was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and spent her childhood in her homeland of Liberia, later living in several African countries when her family fled the civil war. Her crime debut,...
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