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Book Digest: Gauz, Tomi Obaro, Chinelo Okparanta, Saleh Addonia

We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Gauz, Tomi Obaro, […]

We give you eight books by African authors that have been translated into several languages in 2019. Translation is a […]

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

José Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto and Chinelo Okparanta are three African on the shortlist of the Dublin International Literary Award […]

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will be the headline guest at this year’s edition of Ake Festival 2016. Ngugi, who will sit […]

So I gave a snapshot from the 2015 edition of the Uganda International Writers’ Conference on Wednesday. Here are images […]

It was all going down in Kampala, Uganda as writers from around continent converged for the 2015 edition of the […]

And then there were three. The judges for the Etisalat Prize for African literature have whittled down the long list […]

Getting to read Africans is getting easier and easier with spaces like Amazon and more publishers than ever getting into […]

The longlist for the Etisalat Prize for African Literature was announced by the panel of judges earlier today. They are; […]

Nigerian writer Chinelo Okparanta is one of the winners of the short fiction 2014 O. Henry Prize. The O Henry […]