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Awards Fiction Nonfiction Poetry

Brittle Paper Awards 2018 winners announced.

The Brittle Paper Awards 2018 winners were announced on November 19, 2018. They are Sibongile Fisher, Itiola Jones, Stacy Hardy, Panashe Chigumadzi, and Shailja Patel. Brittlepaper.com is one of the most influential spaces in the African literary scene today. The blog which started publishing on August 1, 2010 delivers interviews, essays, fiction and poetry from […]

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Festivals South Africa

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Abantu Book Festival 2018.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set to feature at the Abantu Book Festival 2018 on Friday, December 7. The Nigerian author will be in conversation with Prof Pumla Dineo Gqola at the Eyethu Lifestyle Centre, Soweto, Azania. The Abantu Book Festival was founded to build a space for black South African readers and writers to interact. […]

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Ethiopia Fiction Nigeria

Akwaeke Emezi, Nafkote Tamirat on New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2018.

Akwaeke Emezi and Nafkote Tamirat are the African writers on the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2018 list announced on November 19, 2018. The New York Times is one of the most important newspapers in the United States. Apart from being a publication that covers news, they came up with the New York […]