Pa Gya! A Literary Festival 2021 for Accra, Ghana in October
Pa Gya! A Literary Festival 2021 is set to run both in person and virtually in Accra, Ghana from October […]
Pa Gya! A Literary Festival 2020 kicks off in Accra on October 16.
Pa Gya! A Literary Festival 2020 runs both in-person and virtually in Accra, Ghana from October 16-18, then again on […]
Abantu Book Festival, Gaborone Book Festival, Pa Gya! Literary Festival announce dates.
Abantu Book Festival, Gaborone Book Festival, and Pa Gya! Literary Festival have announced the dates they will happen in three […]
Action packed Pa Gya! Literary Festival 2018 set for Accra, Ghana.
An action packed Pa Gya! Literary festival 2018 is set to happen in Accra, Ghana from October 19-21, 2018. The […]
Pa Gya! A Literary Festival In Accra for October 2017
The Pa Gya! Literary Festival is set to happen at the Goethe Institut in Accra, Ghana from October 20-22, 2017. […]
Gyara Journal: Meet the editors of the continent’s newest literary space.
Gyara is a new literary journal for you to submit your work. The new literary space is looking for creative […]
Petina Gappah, Yaa Gyasi, Teju Cole for PEN USA literary awards 2017
PEN America announced the finalists for the 2017 PEN America Literary Awards in several categories where US$315,000 is awarded. Those […]
The Decolonial Passage Issue #1: Migration and Movement is here
The first issue of literary journal The Decolonial Passage, a themed collection on “Migration and Movement,” was published on July […]
Book Digest: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Yaa Gyasi, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
In our continuing Book Digest series, we share with you new books from Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Yaa Gyasi, and Beata […]
Esi Edugyan, Tayari Jones on Dublin International Literary Award 2020 shortlist.
Esi Edugyan and Tayari Jones feature on the shortlist for the Dublin International Literary Award 2020 announced on September 3, […]
Edwidge Danticat, Yaa Gyasi are Vilcek Prize 2020 recipients.
Edwidge Danticat and Yaa Gyasi were among the recipients of the Vilcek Prize 2020 announced on February 1, 2020. The […]
Ali Hilal Ali reads “Mmeza Fupa” at Soma Cafe, Dar es Salaam.
Ali Hilal Ali had a reading of his novel Mmeza Fupa at the Soma Book Café in Dar es Salaam […]
Sharjah International Book Fair 2018: Yaa Gyasi’s “Homegoing” now in Arabic.
The Arabic edition of Yaa Gyasi debut novel Homegoing was presented at the Sharjah International Book Fair 2018 on November […]
Umutoni, Mbue, Shire, Gyasi, Okorafor make OkayAfrica’s 100 Women list.
Nnedi Okorafor, Louise Umutoni, Imbolo Mbue, Warsan Shire, Yaa Gyasi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Okwiri Oduor made OkayAfrica’s 100 Women […]
A review of Yaa Gyasi’s novel Homegoing
Book: Homegoing Author: Yaa Gyasi Publishers: Penguin Books/Knopf Year of publication: 2016 Number of pages: 320 pages Genre: Fiction Buy […]