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Lesley Nneka Arimah Wins the 2019 Caine Prize, on Her Third Shortlisting
Lesley Nneka Arimah has won the 2019 Caine Prize, the prize’s twentieth edition, for her short story “Skinned,” published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern‘s Issue 53. The announcement was made an hour...
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Writers on Social Media: Vol. 2 | Feat. Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Ellah Allfrey,...
What did your favourite literary person do on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook recently? Like in our first volume in the series, we went through some timelines to bring you what they were up to. E.C....
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Pioneering Publisher & Editor Margaret Busby Receives the Inaugural Africa...
The Ghanaian-born editor Margaret Busby, Britain’s first Black female book publisher and at the time its youngest, has been honoured with the inaugural Africa Writes Lifetime Achievement Award. The...
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British Airways under Pressure Over Mishandling of Nigerian Poet Dami Ajayi’s...
On 9 July, on a British Airways flight from London to Lagos, the Nigerian poet Dami Ajayi‘s laptop was stolen. He had used it until an hour before the plane landed, written a 3,000-word essay, read...
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Helen Moffett, Editing Mentor at Short Story Day Africa, on the Necessity of...
Most of the people who work behind the scenes to hold up literary institutions mostly go unacknowledged in public, their work taken for granted while the writer picks up accolades. High on this...
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Richard Akuson, Founder of A Nasty Boy, Reflects on Homophobia, Being...
In 2017, the Nigerian lawyer Richard Akuson founded A Nasty Boy, a magazine that used provocative photography and fashion to push the boundaries of the portrayal of masculinity. The project’s...
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Apply to BlackBird Books’ 4-Week Residency for Black Womxn Writers
The South Africa-based publishing press Blackbird Books, in collaboration with Casa Lorde and Eunice Ngogodo Own Voices Initiative, is calling for applications to a four-week residency at Casa Lorde,...
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Taiye Selasi Announces New TV Production Company That Will Be the Golden Age...
In yet another move into multimedia by a superstar African writer, Taiye Selasi has announced a TV production company that will be “the golden age of television meets the African silver screen.” Cocoa...
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Safia Elhillo’s Debut YA Novel Acquired by Make Me a World
The prize-winning Sudanese poet Safia Elhillo has had the North America rights to her debut Young Adult novel acquired by Make Me a World, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The book, Nima on the...
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Stimmen Afrikas Festival in Germany Set for 10th Anniversary in November,...
The Stimmen Afrikas Festival in Germany—Voices of Africa in English—will be turning ten in November 2019. The festival, which aims to create a market for African literature in the country, will this...
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Wo̩lé S̩óyinká Turns 85, Birthday Wishes Pour In
Professor Wo̩lé S̩óyinká turned 85 years old two days ago. Tributes and wishes have been pouring in from around the globe. Born Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká, on 13 July 1934, the playwright,...
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Event | The Sixth Praxis Hangout, Focusing on Mental Health, Is Coming to Kano
Praxis Hangout, a literary event hosted by the Nigeria-based Praxis Magazine Online, is coming to Kano. Organised in collaboration with Box Office Studios and Poetry for Change, this sixth edition...
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Royal African Society: The UK Home Office Visa Service Discriminating Against...
The following is a press release by the Royal African Society. Home Office Visa Service Discriminating Against Africans “Home Office data on visa refusals shows that African applicants are more than...
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Wo̩lé S̩óyinká’s Forthcoming Book, His 50th at Age 85, Looks at the...
Fresh from celebrations for his 85th birthday days ago, Wo̩lé S̩óyinká has a new book coming. An expansion of his three-part Richard D. Cohen Lectures at Harvard in 2017—the first, “The Acquisitive...
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In Her Debut Memoir, Bassey Ikpi Deepens Our Understanding of Mental Health...
In 2004, while on tour with Def Poetry Jam, the Nigerian poet and spoken word artist Bassey Ikpi was diagnosed with Bipolar II Disorder. By 2011, she had taken on advocacy, writing and speaking about...
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Tade Thompson Wins Arthur C Clarke Award, for Rosewater, the First Novel in...
The Nigerian writer and psychiatrist Tade Thompson has won the 2019 Arthur C Clarke Award, the UK’s premier honour for science fiction, for his Nommo Award-winning novel Rosewater, the first in his...
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Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Jude Idada Lead 2019 NLNG Prize Longlist for...
The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Prize for Literature has announced its 2019 longlist, led by I Do Not Come to You by Chance novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and previous prize finalist Jude...
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Patrice Nganang’s When the Plums Are Ripe, the Second in His Historical...
The Cameroonian writer and Stony Brook literature professor Patrice Nganang, who in 2017 was arrested for criticising the country’s 37-year-ruling president Paul Biya, has a novel coming. When the...
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Sunday Times Announces Shortlists for South Africa’s Alan Paton Award & Barry...
Sunday Times has announced the shortlists for the prestigious South African literary prizes: the Alan Paton Award, in its 30th year, and the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, in its 19th year. Both awards...
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ReWrite London Calls for Short Fiction Submissions from Black Women & Women...
ReWrite, the London-based platform for Black women and women of colour, founded in 2017 by the Congolese-British writer and facilitator Christina Fonthes, is seeking 1,000-3,000-word short fiction...
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