Lauren Beukes writes Wonder Woman!
You know how you run a blog and you start getting worried that its starting to look like you are […]
Henrietta Rose-Innes on winning the Francoise Sommer Literary Prize
Author Henrietta Rose-Innes is a South African with four books to her credit. The first two of her books Shark’s […]
Caine Prize 2015 deadline is Saturday 31st January
We all know the benefits of the Caine Prize to you as an African writer. The people who have been […]
Storymoja for World Record reading attempt. Again
Storymoja Publishers is most famous for the annual literary festival that they host in Nairobi, Kenya. They are also the […]
Chibundu Onuzo joins sister in Nigerian election song.
Dinachi Onuzo is Nigerian musician who was born in Lagos but is now based in London, England. The musician plays […]
Kenyan author Nganga Mbugua predicted #NgiluSingh jokes
The big story in Kenya right now is the #NgiluSinghJokes that have been trending on the Kenyan twitter. The jokes […]
Ciku Kimeria for Ghanaian launch
Kenyan writer Ciku Kimeria is one of the new novelists to watch in the continent. Her weirdly titled novel “Of […]
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor dazzles at TEDxEuston
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is probably one of my favourite writers to come to the African literature scene in the last […]
Lauren Beukes novel Broken Monsters to be a TV drama
Lauren Beukes came back from the US back to Mzansi and posted the following tweet that was favourited and retweeted […]
Chris Abani makes Edgar Awards 2015 shortlist
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the […]
African literary festivals you can attend in 2015
2014 was a great year for Africa’s literature and a slew of festivals across the continent. So with the new […]
North Africans pepper International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist
The International prize for Arabic fiction was set up in 2007 to address limited international availability of Arabic literature. The […]
Why TIA’s ‘We need new stories’ is a pile of unmentionable
This morning I spent time reading a two part series from ThisIsAfrica.me, a website that does a lot of writing […]
Helen Oyeyemi joins Canada’s Giller Prize jury 2015
The Giller Prize is Canada’s premiere fiction prize and awards the writer of the best English-language book with $100,000. Each […]
Jalada Afrofutures anthology now online
Its taken its time but it is now here. The Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s) anthology was launched at midnight yesterday in […]