We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Tsitsi Dangarembga, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Krystle Zara Appiah, and Nathacha Appanah. Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga Publisher: Graywolf PressPublication Date: January 17, 2023Genre: Nonfiction, EssaysLanguage: English Where to find it: Graywolf Press Tsitsi Dangarembga Tsitsi Dangarembga’s debut […]
Stories from Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse are now available on the Zukiswa Wanner-curated Audible Afrolit series. Afrolit Now is a series curating short stories from six African writers curated by Zukiswa Wanner in conjunction with Audible. It was inspired by Afrolit Sans Frontières, the virtual literary festival founded by the South African […]
The guests to feature at the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival in Kaduna, Nigeria from October 21-23, 2021 are now known. In August, a new festival called the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival was introduced to the public. The new initiative, curated by Sada Malumfashi, aimed to showcase the best of contemporary African […]
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Dreams and Assorted Nightmares is the One Read App offering for January 2021. One Read is a mobile application, brought to you by Nigeria’s Sterling Bank and Ouida Books, aimed at promoting writers, publishers and other players in the African book industry to create a community of readers. Readers have been getting […]
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim will kick off the new James Murua Literary LiveStream on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, at 18:00 GMT/ 19:00 WAT/ 20:00 CAT/ 21:00 EAT. You can join the stream on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter. In 2014, this blog set up the African Author Google Hangout to allow fans of African literature to interact […]
Hausa was the featured language at the Afrolit Sans Frontières African Languages Edition on Thursday, October 29, 2020. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a virtual literary festival for writers of African origin, was founded by author and publisher Zukiswa Wanner as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdowns. There have been five editions running since it […]
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim was the second guest on the eighth and final day of Afrolit Sans Frontières on Instagram from Abuja, Nigeria on Monday, March 30, 2020. The Afrolit Sans Frontiers Virtual Literary Festival is an initiative from writers of African origin curated by Zukiswa Wanner. Sixteen writers from 10 African countries are sharing their […]
The Afrolit Sans Frontieres Virtual Literary Festival, an initiative of writers of African origin curated by Zukiswa Wanner, kicks off on the Internet from March 23 – 30, 2020. In the last few weeks, the world has become unrecognisable as the Corona Virus pandemic reaches across the planet. Activity has ground to a halt in […]
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s new short story collection Dreams and Assorted Nightmares published by Masobe Books was unveiled on March 3, 2020. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is well known in African literary circles for the short story collection The Whispering Trees (2012) and his debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms (2015). The Nigerian who has multiple global […]
The Tamil translation of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms was announced as Tamil’s best translation of the year on December 8, 2019. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is well known in African literary circles for the short story collection The Whispering Trees (2012) and the novel Season of Crimson Blossoms (2015). The latter […]
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Season of Crimson Blossoms is now available in German. It was translated by Susan Urban and published by Residenz. In 2015, Nigerian journalist and short story writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim followed his successful 2012 short story collection The Whispering Trees with the novel Season of Crimson Blossoms. The book that gave the […]
Writers who write in English and Portuguese are set to converge on Nairobi for the first Macondo Literary Festival to take place from September 27-29, 2019. “Macondo” is a fictional place where magical things happen in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez. This magical place was adopted […]
The Benue Book and Arts festival 2019 is scheduled to take place in Makurdi, the capital city of Benue State in Nigeria from June 20-22, 2019. The theme of the festival will be “Changing Narratives.” The Benue Book and Arts festival, directed by Su’eddie Vershima Agema, is an initiative of the Sevhage Literary & Development […]
Nigeria’s newest imprint Cassava Shorts is set to issue titles by Chika Unigwe, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Toni Kan. There’s a new imprint in Nigerian called Cassava Shorts from Cassava Republic Press. It has announced a new short story series that will bring to the light gripping stories by celebrated and emerging authors. Cassava Shorts […]
The Prix Les Afriques 2019 longlist was announced in Geneva, Switzerland on February 17, 2019. La Cene Littéraire is an association, founded in May 2015, whose aim is to promote the literature of continental and diasporic Africa. Every year since 2016, they have hosted a literary award initially called the “Prix Du Livre Engage” and […]
