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 […]
African Writers Awards 2019 longlists announced.
The longlists for the African Writers Awards 2019 were announced on July 30, 2019. The African Writers Conference is an […]
9mobile Prize for African Literature: new information on the prize.
After over a year and a half of no activity, there has been serious movement on the 9mobile Prize for […]
Angela Makholwa’s “Black Widow Society” set for the big screen.
Pan Macmillan South Africa announced on July 25, 2019, that Angela Makholwa’s third novel Black Widow Society is set to […]
Storymoja Festival 2020 makes callout for interns.
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” out on August 13.
Patrice Nganang’s novel When the Plums Are Ripe, published by Macmillan imprint Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, is out on August […]
Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Foday Mannah on UK’s Bristol Short Story Prize 2019 shortlist.
Mubanga Kalimamukwento and Foday Mannah. are the two Africans on the Bristol Short Story Prize 2019 shortlist announced on July […]
Namwali Serpell, Tope Folarin on US’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2019 longlist.
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” out on August 6.
Tope Folarin’s debut novel A Particular Kind of Black Man will be published by Simon & Shuster on August 6, […]
Oyinkan Braithwaite, Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma on Booker Prize 2019 longlist.
Oyinkan Braithwaite, Bernardine Evaristo, and Chigozie Obioma are on the Booker Prize 2019 longlist announced on July 23, 2019. The […]
Mogadishu Book Fair 2019 reveals guests, theme for August shindig.
The Mogadishu Book Fair 2019 has revealed the theme and some of the guests who will take part this year […]
Kelechi Njoku gets nod for Senegal’s Black Rock Residency.
Kelechi Njoku was announced as one of the residents of the Kehinde Wiley founded Black Rock Residency in Dakar, Senegal […]
Moroccan Abdellatif Laâbi is US’s Neustadt Prize 2020 finalist.
Abdellatif Laâbi was announced as a finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2020 for his novel Beyond the Barbed Wire on […]
A snapshot of the Abuja Literary Festival 2019.
The Abuja Literary Festival 2019 was hosted by the Abuja Literary Society in Abuja, Nigeria from July 11-13, 2019. The […]
Makhosazana Xaba’s “Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000-2018″ out now.
Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000-2018, an anthology edited by Makhosazana Xaba and published […]