Wayétu Moore and Namwali Serpell’s Nonfiction Works Are Finalists for the...
Wayétu Moore and Namwali Serpell are among the authors whose works have been chosen as finalists for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. The list of finalists was released on January 22,...
View ArticleTochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby Awarded 2021 American Library Association Alex Award
Tochi Onyebuchi’s novel Riot Baby (Tordotcom) is a winner of the American Library Association’s Alex Awards. The Alex Awards are given annually since 1998 to “ten books written for adults that have...
View ArticleMusa Okwonga’s New Novel Explores What It’s Like Being Black in Berlin
Poet, journalist, and musician Musa Okwonga, has a new novel out! Titled In The End, It Was All About Love, Okwonga’s book is based on his experiences living in Berlin. It is about his “love-hate-love...
View ArticleMaaza Mengiste, Nnedi Okorafor and Kwei Quartey Nominated for 2021 Edgar® Awards
Three of our favorite authors have been nominated for the 2021 Edgar® Awards — Maaza Mengiste, Nnedi Okorafor, and Kwei Quartey. The Edgar® Awards are administered by the Mystery Writers of America....
View ArticleBolu Babalola Has Two New Books OTW (and a Six-Figure Deal)!
Cheers all around for Bolu Babalola! The Bookseller recently reported that UK, Commonwealth, and translation rights for Babalola’s Honey & Spice and a second novel were pre-empted by Katie Packer,...
View ArticleThe Voice Behind Your Favorite African Audiobooks is Bridgerton Star Adjoa Andoh
Fans of Bridgerton! Did you know that Adjoa Andoh, a.k.a the formidable Lady Danbury (who memorably helps the Duke of Hastings overcome his stutter), is the voice behind a number of notable African...
View ArticleAyọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and Emmanuel Iduma Are Instagram Official!
Nigerian novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and nonfiction writer Emmanuel Iduma have made their relationship Instagram official! With everything happening in the world right now, this is the news we needed to...
View ArticleIntroducing “Melting Clocks,” Eloghosa Osunde’s New Column for The Paris Review
Writer and visual artist Eloghosa Osunde has a new monthly column in The Paris Review called “Melting Clocks,” in which she shares essays about time, art, and the senses. In her first essay titled...
View ArticleClimate Activist Vanessa Nakate’s “Manifesto and Memoir” Forthcoming This Fall
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate will be making her authorial debut this November 2 with her book A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis. Nakate first drew...
View ArticleNnedi Okorafor x The Walt Disney Company…???
Nnedi Okorafor recently shared an image on Instagram and Facebook that suggests a collaboration with The Walt Disney Company. The image is just that of The Walt Disney Company’s logo next to a Docusign...
View ArticlePeople Like Them, Forthcoming July 2021, Is Samira Sedira’s First Novel to Be...
Samira Sedira’s fourth novel, Des gens comme eux (2020), will be published in English this summer by Penguin Books (North America) and Raven Books (UK/Commonwealth). The English version, People Like...
View ArticleAfrikan Echoes, an Audiobooks App Developed by “the Bill Gates of Ghana,” to...
March 2021 will see the launch of Afrikan Echoes, an app uniquely designed for Africans on the continent to play, download, and share original and unpublished African works that have been translated...
View ArticleChimamanda Adichie’s New Book, Notes on Grief, Forthcoming May 2021
Chimamanda Adichie fans! There’s a new book by her on the way. The Bookseller reports that Fourth Estate will be publishing Notes on Grief, a “work of meditation, remembrance, and hope which grew out...
View ArticleListen to Ben Okri’s New Short Story “A Wrinkle in the Realm”
Ben Okri has published a new short story titled “A Wrinkle in the Realm” in The New Yorker Magazine. As with many short stories published in the magazine’s digital format, the text is accompanied by a...
View ArticleBeata Umubyeyi Mairesse Wins the Prix des 5 Continents 2020
Rwandan-French writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse has won the Prix des 5 Continents 2020 for her novel, Tous les enfants dispersés (2019). The Prix des 5 Continents is funded by L’Organisation...
View ArticleNnedi Okorafor Has New Story About #EndSARS Protests in New Marvel Collection
A forthcoming Marvel collection featuring Black heroes will include a new story by Nnedi Okorafor that takes place on October 20, 2020 — the day that members of the Nigerian army opened fire on...
View ArticleYou’ll Soon Be Able to Listen to Stories by Afrolit Sans Frontières Authors...
Audiobook fans! Here’s some news for you. Some authors who participated in the Afrolit Sans Frontières festivals, organized by the amazing Zukiswa Wanner (the 2020 Brittle Paper African Literary Person...
View ArticleOyinkan Braithwaite and Yaba Badoe Are on The British Book Awards Judging Panel
Nigerian novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite and Ghanaian author and filmmaker Yaba Badoe are on the judging panel of The British Book Awards. The British Book Awards, fondly dubbed the “Nibbies,” are...
View ArticleYaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom Longlisted for 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for...
Yaa Gyasi’s new novel, Transcendent Kingdom, has been longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Gyasi’s novel, a follow-up to her magnificent debut Homegoing, follows a Ghanaian family in...
View ArticleNamina Forna’s The Gilded Ones to Be Adapted for Film
One of our anticipated titles of 2021 is headed to the big screen! Deadline reports that Namina Forna’s The Gilded Ones, which was released earlier in February in the US and UK, will be adapted into a...
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