Nigerian Filmmaker Biyi Bandele’s New Film Blood Sisters is a Netflix Original
Nigerian filmmaker Biyi Bandele has a new movie set for release soon. The film is a Netflix feature and is titled Blood Sisters. Bandele shared the news on Instagram, noting in the captions: “I’ve...
View ArticleEVENT | Breaking Down the Booker Prize with Bhakti Shringarpure and Ainehi Edoro
The Booker Prize is one of the most important prizes for English fiction today. It has a powerful hold on the publishing industry and drives global conversations about books and authors. Bhakti...
View Article30 Days of African Writing: A Brittle Paper Showcase
As many of you know, we publish original writing by African writers. Most of these writers are young and live on the continent. The past few weeks have been a time of rich harvest in terms of the...
View ArticleSulaiman Addonia’s Silence is My Mother Tongue is Headed to the Big Screen
Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia takes the first steps towards the big screen. The Belgian filmmaker Laurent Van Lancker and Addonia won a grant to write a film script for the book....
View Article103 African Writers Respond to Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize Win
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 Nobel laureate for literature. The Swedish Academy shared the news on October 7th. They praised “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the...
View ArticleDelicious Cake and Engaging Guests: Photos from Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Spine...
A few weeks ago, Spine and Label, a bookstore in Abuja hosted Abubakar Adam Ibrahim. Ibrahim read to a packed room from his recent collection Dreams & Assorted Nightmares published by Masobe books....
View ArticleBurkina Faso’s First Female Novelist Monique Ilboudo Reflects on Being a...
Monique Ilboudo is the first Burkinabè woman to publish a novel. She is in the faculty of Law at Ouagadougou University and writes essays for national newspapers. She has published four novels, the...
View ArticleJacqueline-Bethel Mougoué and Oluwakemi Balogun Win the 2021 Aidoo-Snyder...
The 2021 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize committee has selected two winners for best scholarly work. The award recipients are Nigerian academic Oluwakemi Balogun and Cameroonian academic Jacqueline-Bethel...
View ArticleChimamanda Adichie Reflects on Europe’s History of Violence in Humboldt Forum...
Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tasks European nations to confront their role in the history of colonial violence and return the art works and objects of spiritual significance stolen from various...
View ArticleNetflix Book Club Starring Nigerian American Actress Uzo Aduba Takes Readers...
Netflix and Starbucks have partnered to launch a new Netflix series centered on books. The series is titled Netflix Book Club and will showcase the books that have been adapted into hit shows and films...
View ArticleAfrican Literary Excellence: Chibundo Onuzo’s Sankofa is on Billboards and...
Chibundu Onuzo’s third novel titled Sankofa is making serious waves. The novel, which tells the story of a British woman who returns to the West African country of her birth, is clearly a hit. It was...
View ArticleAll Smiles and Fun: Photos From Zukiswa Wanner’s Event at Nairobi’s Soma Nami...
South African author Zukiswa Wanner stopped by Soma Nami books for a book club feature of her novel The Madams. The Nairobi bookstore is arguably Kenya’s hippest book store at the moment. [See our...
View Article6 Writers Shortlisted for the 2021 Toyin Falola Short Story Prize
Six writers from three African countries have been shortlisted for the 2021 Toyin Falola Prize. The prize awards a single writer between the ages of 15 and 35 a cash prize of up to $2,500 for a short...
View ArticleCongratulations to the Winners of the University of Johannesburg Prizes in...
The University of Johannesburg announced the winners of the creative writing prizes on September 15th. The prizes are the UJ Prize for Creative Writing in isiZulu and the UJ Prize for Creative Writing...
View ArticleMozambique’s First Female Novelist Wins One of the Richest Prizes in...
The Mozambican author Paulina Chiziane, the first woman to publish a novel in her country, has been awarded the 2021 Camões Award for Portuguese literature. She is the first African woman to earn this...
View ArticleGoFundMe | Help South African Author Keletso Mopai Attend Graduate School
Brittle Paper fam, South African author Keletso Mopai needs our help. She is raising funds to attend graduate school. According to a statement on her GoFundMe page, Mopai had been offered several spots...
View ArticleZimbabwe’s Tsitsi Dangaremgba Wins One of Germany’s Most Important Cultural...
Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangaremgba has been awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She was announced as the winner during a ceremony held in Frankfurt. She is the first woman to be honored...
View ArticleSenegalese Novelist Boubacar Boris Diop Wins 2022 Neustadt International...
It’s been fantastic year for African literature! Shortly after Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize, the Senegalese novelist Boubacar Boris Diop has been announced winner of the 2022 Neustadt...
View ArticleBiyi Bandele to Direct Movie Adaptation of Soyinka’s Death and the King’s...
We have updates on the Ebony Life-Netflix collaboration on a film adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman. Principal photography has kicked off for the adaptation, with Nigerian...
View ArticleShortlist: Writing Contest for Queer West African Women
11 writers have been shortlisted for the nonfiction writing competition for queer women from West Africa, curated by Unoma Azuah. The list includes writers from Bénin Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana,...
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