On Saturday, Penguin Books announced the two inaugural winners of the Penguin Prize for African Writing, though neither of the African writers honored currently live in Africa. The non-fiction winner ...

Afreximbank Unveils Instances of Exceptional Moments of Hunger: A Powerful New Anthology Showcasing Africa and the ...

What is your story about? Bridling is narrated by a young woman, an actor early in her career, who lands a part in a sought-after, edgy, intersectional show about women, headed up by a lauded male ...

The first book-length study of digital literature in Africa has attracted a lot of academic attention. African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Kenya and ...

Victor Ekpuk is an internationally renowned Nigerian artist known for his artwork inspired by ancient African writing and graphic writing systems. INTERwoven TEXTures is his first solo exhibition at ...

This year’s AKO Caine prize for African writing has gone to Kenyan writer Idza Luhumyo for her short story Five Years Next Sunday, which was described as “incandescent” by the judges. Okey Ndibe, the ...

"Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda, 11-17 June, 1962." "Makerere College - Kampala, Uganda"--Added title page. Cover title. AFA copy 39088009748310 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution ...

African-derived oral literature : a background -- Writing orality in Wole Soyinka's poetry -- African oral poetics in the poetry of Louise Bennett and Edward Kamau Brathwaite -- Building community : ...

Umar Turaki, novelist, filmmaker, script editor and screenwriter, is the author of ‘Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold’, his first novel which examines grief through uncommon lens. In this interview ...

Celebrated Zimbabwean writer and film actor Angeline Dimingo has earned a coveted place in the Narratives Against Poverty in Africa anthology, a continental literary project that harnesses ...