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Zoë Wicomb, Keith Jarrett, and A. Igoni Barrett are on the judging panel of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021 […]

Quramo Writers Prize 2019 finalists announced in Lagos.

The finalists for the Quramo Writers Prize 2019 have been announced today November 18, 2019, in Lagos. The Quramo Writers’ […]

A Igoni Barrett debut novel Blackass has been available to Chinese readers since 2017. We have covered A. Igoni Barrett […]

September 15, 2019

Noor Naga was announced the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2019 winner for her manuscript American Girl and Boy from Shobrakheit […]

A. Igoni Barrett will reprise his role as a judge for the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2019. Submissions for the […]

Writers from across the African continent converged on Berlin for the first African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the […]

Kenyan poet Khadija Abdalla Bajaber has been announced as the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2018 winner for her manuscript The […]

Novelist A. Igoni Barrett will serve as the inaugural judge of the Graywolf Press Africa Prize. The prize is worth […]

At this moment people are flying into Nigeria from all over world headed to Abeokuta; they are all coming to […]

There are so many events in and around the African Literature sphere in the very recent. One of the one’s […]