
Tracy Coker wins Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award 2022
Tracy Coker’s manuscript White Yams was declared the winner of the Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award 2022 on Thursday, […]
Tracy Coker’s manuscript White Yams was declared the winner of the Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award 2022 on Thursday, […]
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Binyavanga Wainaina, Monique […]
Foday Mannah was declared the winner of the Mo Siewcharran Prize 2022 in a ceremony in London, UK on September […]
Sierra Leonean librarian, novelist, and biographer Yema Lucilda Hunter passed away in Accra, Ghana on Sunday, August 21, 2022. Yema […]
The shortlist for the Short Story Day Africa Prize 2021 has been announced today, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Short Story […]
Ishmael Beah’s novel Little Family is the offering of the One Read App for April 2021. One Read is a […]
The longlist for the Short Story Day Africa Prize 2020 has been announced today, October 8, 2020. Short Story Day […]
Ishmael Beah was announced a finalist for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award 2020 on August 5, […]
Ishmael Beah’s newest novel Little Family launched virtually at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C., USA on April […]
Season 2 of Afrolit Sans Frontières was hosted by African writers from cities all over the world over the Internet […]
Ishmael Beah rounded out Season 2 of Afrolit Sans Frontières on Instagram from Los Angeles, USA on Monday, April 27, […]
Six poets are on the Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2020 shortlist announced on March 30, 2020. The Brunel International […]
Sierra Leonean academic and literary critic Prof Eldred Durosimi Jones passed away in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Saturday, March 21, […]
Yarri Kamara was announced as a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant 2020 recipient on December 23, 2019. The PEN/Heim Translation Fund […]
The Sierra Leone National Book Fair is set to run in Freetown, Sierra Leone from December 5 – 7, 2019. […]