African Literature Scholar Jeanne-Marie Jackson Awarded $200,000 Andrew...
World literature professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson has been awarded a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. She is one of 26 scholars and writers recognized by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as part of...
View ArticleChinua Achebe’s Classics to Become TV Series!
It’s the best literary news you’ll hear today. In what appears to be a long overdue development, Chinua Achebe’s African trilogy—the novels Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God—are...
View ArticleMaaza Mengiste is Cover Star of Writers Space Africa May Issue
Ethiopian novelist Maaza Mengiste is the May cover star of international online literary Magazine Writers Space Africa. The photograph, credited to Nina Subin, shows Mengiste sitting, dressed in a...
View ArticleWatch the Book Trailer for Nadifa Mohamed’s The Fortune Men
Nadifa Mohamed’s forthcoming novel The Fortune Men tells the true story of Mahmood Mattan, a British Somali wrongfully convicted and hanged for the brutal murder of a shopkeeper in 1950s Cardiff. With...
View ArticleTeju Cole’s 7th Book May Be His Most Unusual Photography Collection
Teju Cole has a new book coming out. The book is titled Golden Apple of the Sun and features photos of Cole’s kitchen counter tops taken during the US election season. The book also features an essay,...
View ArticleCover Reveal: All Shades of Iberibe by Kasimma
All Shades of Iberibe is a collection of short stories by Nigerian writer Kasimma. The book is forthcoming from Sandorf Passage and set for publication in November. We are delighted to share the...
View ArticleOffer Ends May 31st: Get up to 35% Discount on African Fiction from Ohio...
Ohio University Press is offering a 35% discount of the list price on purchases of African books as a special promotion tied to the upcoming African Literature Association Conference. If you love...
View ArticlePHOTOS | African Writers Trust Writing and Reading Residency in Partnership...
The AWT’s Writing and Reading Residency took place from April 27th to 2nd May 2021 at the picturesque Hotsprings Villas in Kampala, Uganda. Designed as a hybrid programme integrating virtual and...
View ArticleRadical Books Collective: Virtual Book Club For Radical Readers
The Radical Book Collective (RBC) is an initiative founded by Bhakti Shringarpure, Editor-in-Chief of Warscapes magazine, and Suchitra Vijayan author of Midnight’s Borders. As stated on the website,...
View ArticleEnter for the $2,250 Queer Women’s Writing Contest | Deadline: August 31
Trailblazing author Unoma Azuah, in partnership with Women’s Initiative for Sustainable Empowerment and Equality (WISE) and Initiative Sankofa d ’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO), is curating a non-fiction...
View ArticleJennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Wins 2021 Jhalak Prize for The First Woman
Acclaimed novelist Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has been awarded the 2021 Jhalak Prize for her second novel The First Woman, described as “a powerful feminist rendition of Uganda’s origin tales.” The US...
View ArticleNnedi Okorafor to Publish Graphic Novel Based on Her Cat Periwinkle Chukwu,...
A new novel based on Nnedi Okorafor’s cat Periwinkle Chukwu has been acquired by Macmillan’s graphic novel imprint First Second Books, reports Publishers Weekly. The title of the book is Space Cat and...
View ArticleTeju Cole’s 8th Book is a Collection of 25 Essays Titled Black Paper
Exciting new for Teju Cole’s fans! In a single year, the author and photographer has finalized two full-length projects. Barely a month since we announced the forthcoming release of Cole’s seventh...
View ArticleProminent African Literature Scholar Charles R. Larson Dies at 83
Charles Raymond Larson, the respected American academic and pioneering African literature scholar has died at the age of 83. A statement by the family reveals the cause of death to be prostrate cancer....
View ArticleThe 2021 Shortlist for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing Announced
The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing has announced the shortlist for the 2021 edition. Not only is it perhaps the most exciting and diverse shortlist yet, it is also full of surprises. Writers from...
View ArticleAkwaeke Emezi is Time Magazine Cover Star, Talks Writing, Black Spirituality...
Akwaeke Emezi is one of TIME Magazine’s Next Generation Leaders, an honor which recognizes the work and advocacy of rising stars “building a better future.” Every year since 2014, TIME Magazine, in...
View ArticleDoek! Magazine Announces Literary Prize for Namibian Writers
Namibia’s Bank Windhoek and Doek! Magazine have launched a new prize. The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards honor the finest work by four Namibian contributors published in any issue of Doek!, in the...
View ArticleThe Ghana Library Authority and Editora Trinta Zero Nove Win The London Book...
The London Book Fair (LBF) have announced the winners of its International Excellence Awards, which seeks to honor the work of literary organizations and initiatives all over the world. There are a few...
View ArticleDavid Diop is First French-African Winner of the International Booker Prize
The 2021 International Booker Prize has been awarded to French-Senegalese author David Diop for his second novel At Night All Blood is Black. It is the first time a French writer and a writer of...
View ArticleHow Okey Ndibe’s Grandfather “Brought English” To His Village
Nigerian author Okey Ndibe is a master storyteller, as evidenced in all his critically acclaimed novels and nonfiction collections. Readers love his work for the humor and charm he brings to his...
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