
Four African Literary Festivals to attend in August 2019.
August 2019 promises just as much activity as the previous months on the African literary calendar. Here are four literary […]
August 2019 promises just as much activity as the previous months on the African literary calendar. Here are four literary […]
The longlists for the African Writers Awards 2019 were announced on July 30, 2019. The African Writers Conference is an […]
After over a year and a half of no activity, there has been serious movement on the 9mobile Prize for […]
Pan Macmillan South Africa announced on July 25, 2019, that Angela Makholwa’s third novel Black Widow Society is set to […]
Storymoja Festival 2020 has made a callout for those who would like to intern for Kenya’s most famous literary festival. […]
Patrice Nganang’s novel When the Plums Are Ripe, published by Macmillan imprint Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, is out on August […]
Mubanga Kalimamukwento and Foday Mannah. are the two Africans on the Bristol Short Story Prize 2019 shortlist announced on July […]
Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift and Tope Folarin’s A Particular Kind of Black Man are on the Center for Fiction […]
Tope Folarin’s debut novel A Particular Kind of Black Man will be published by Simon & Shuster on August 6, […]
Oyinkan Braithwaite, Bernardine Evaristo, and Chigozie Obioma are on the Booker Prize 2019 longlist announced on July 23, 2019. The […]
The Mogadishu Book Fair 2019 has revealed the theme and some of the guests who will take part this year […]
Kelechi Njoku was announced as one of the residents of the Kehinde Wiley founded Black Rock Residency in Dakar, Senegal […]
Abdellatif Laâbi was announced as a finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2020 for his novel Beyond the Barbed Wire on […]
The Abuja Literary Festival 2019 was hosted by the Abuja Literary Society in Abuja, Nigeria from July 11-13, 2019. The […]
Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000-2018, an anthology edited by Makhosazana Xaba and published […]