Sisonke Msimang on Multiculturalism New South Wales 2019 Award shortlist.
Sisonke Msimang is on the Multiculturalism New South Wales 2019 Award shortlist for her memoir Always Another Country. The Multicultural […]
NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2019 makes call out.
NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2019 has made a call out for children’s literature and literary criticism. The NLNG Nigeria […]
Tjawangwa “TJ” Dema poetry collection “The Careless Seamstress” for March 1.
Tjawangwa “TJ” Dema debut poetry collection The Careless Seamstress is coming out on March 1, 2019. The Sillerman First Book […]
Ken Walibora’s “Siku Njema” now in English.
Ken Walibora’s popular novel in Kiswahili Siku Njema is now available in English with the name This Day. The novel […]
Namwali Serpell’s “The Old Drift” to make March debut.
Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift, published by Penguin Random House, will be available for your reading pleasure on […]
Egypt is Hargeysa International Book Fair 2019 guest country.
Egypt is the guest country for the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2019 to be held in Hargeysa, Somaliland from July […]
Translations: Ayesha Harruna Attah, Koleka Putuma, Akwaeke Emezi.
Translations for work by Ayesha Harruna Attah, Koleka Putuma, and Akwaeke Emezi are either here or in the works. Translations […]
Swahili Literary Festival 2019 program unveiled.
The program for the Swahili Literary Festival 2019 set to happen in Mombasa, Kenya from March 1-3, 2019 has been […]
Tade Thompson on British Science Fiction Association Awards 2018 shortlist.
Tade Thompson is on the British Science Fiction Association Awards 2018 shortlist for his novel Rosewater. The British Science Fiction […]
The Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award.
The Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award will be presented at the launch of the new anthology. New Daughters […]
South Africa’s Time of the Writer 2019 guest list unveiled.
The guest list for the Time of the Writer 2019, running from March 12-16 in Durban, South Africa has been […]
Sue Nyathi nominated for Zimbabwe Achievers Awards 2019.
Sue Nyathi has been nominated for the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards 2019 in the author/writer category. The other four nominated are […]
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Mukoma Wa Ngugi in “Duel on the Ridges.”
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Mukoma Wa Ngugi were the two players in the Dr Joyce Nyairo moderated “Duel on the […]
Literary journal “Saraba” is ten!
Founders and editors of Saraba wrote love letters to the literary journal as it turned ten on February 15, 2019. […]
Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 guest list unveiled.
The guest list for Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 has been unveiled. The festival curated by writer and filmmaker Tsitsi […]