
Nnedi Okorafor makes Arthur C Clark Award 2016 Shortlist
Nnedi Okorafor is on the shortlist for the Arthur C Clark award 2016 for her novel The Book of Phoenix. […]
Nnedi Okorafor is on the shortlist for the Arthur C Clark award 2016 for her novel The Book of Phoenix. […]
Egyptian Mohamed Rabie and Moroccan Tareq Bakari missed out as the winner of the ninth International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) was […]
Stanely Gazemba is one of the writers who have made the shortlists for the inaugural Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. […]
The Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation for emerging African poets was recently announced. The one-off award will be […]
Legendary Kenyan publisher Henry Chakava will celebrate his 70th birthday with the launch of his memoir Coming of Age: Strides […]
There was a bit a low key celebration of World Book and Copyright Day 2016 across the African continent from […]
The Gerald Kraak Award and anthology is the latest one with a focus on the topics of gender, human rights […]
Decolonising literature is the order of the day in South Africa and this is the theme of the Rutanang Book […]
It was a special time on Thursday evening with five African books reimagined by respected performers at the Goethe Nairobi. […]
The Alexandrina International Book Fair 2016 was hosted in Egyptian town of Alexandria for ten days from March 21st to […]
It’s all happening in Nairobi and Johannesburg as writers converge on their big towns for African literary deliciousness. Last night […]
Angola’s José Eduardo Agualusa is one of the six writers on the just-announced Man Booker International 2016 shortlist. Agualusa who […]
Scholastique Mukasonga has made the International Dublin Literary Award 2016 shortlist. Also on that list is A Brief History of […]
Egyptian novelist Ibrahim Abdelmeguid got one of the biggest paydays in writing as he won a Sheikh Zayed Book Award […]
Yewande Omotoso new novel The Women Next Door has been sneak peaked on her social media channels. Yewande Omotoso has […]