Chika Unigwe on Prix Fragonard 2022 Deuxième Selection
Chika Unigwe is on the deuxième selection for Prix Fragonard 2022 announced on Thursday, April 7, 2022. French perfumer Fragonard […]
Chika Unigwe, Tola Rotimi Abraham on Prix Fragonard 2022 premier selection
Chika Unigwe and Tola Rotimi Abraham are on the premier selection for Prix Fragonard 2022 announced on March 24, 2022. […]
Toni Kan’s “Nights of the Creaking Bed” makes UK debut.
Toni Kan’s critically acclaimed and award-winning short story collection Nights of the Creaking Bed makes its UK debut today April […]
Cassava Shorts to issue Chika Unigwe, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Toni Kan titles.
Nigeria’s newest imprint Cassava Shorts is set to issue titles by Chika Unigwe, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Toni Kan. There’s […]
Nigerian Prize for Literature 2017 winner Ikeogu Oke has passed on.
Nigerian Prize for Literature 2017 winner Ikeogu Oke has passed on. The poet died from a short illness on Sunday, […]
African writers converge for Berlin’s first African Book Festival.
Writers from across the African continent converged on Berlin for the first African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the […]
Alain Mabanckou makes Man Booker International Prize 2017 Longlist
Alain Mabanckou is on the Man Booker International Prize 2017 Longlist that has been announced today. The Man Booker International […]
Tributes flood in for legendary Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta the author of numerous novels passed away in London, UK on January 25th 2017. Tributes from all over […]
Chika Unigwe is a Man Booker International Prize 2017 judge
Chika Unigwe is one of the judges who have been announced for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize 2017. Chika […]
Mildred Barya wins Sylt Foundation African Writer´s Residency Award 2015
It official. Ugandan writer and poet Mildred Barya has been selected as the 2015 winner of the Sylt Foundation African […]
The Writivism Short Story Prize Shortlist 2015 out
The short list for the Writivism Short Story Competition 2015 has been announced by Chika Unigwe the chair of the […]
Cynthia Jele short story to kick off Long Story Short Project
There are so many events in and around the African Literature sphere in the very recent. One of the one’s […]
Why TIA’s ‘We need new stories’ is a pile of unmentionable
This morning I spent time reading a two part series from ThisIsAfrica.me, a website that does a lot of writing […]