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Brittle Paper introduces free master classes with “The Writing Room.”

The Writing Room, a new initiative from Brittle Paper, featuring masterclasses from some of the most respected personalities in African […]

Molara Wood ended proceedings on Sunday at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 3 from Lagos, Nigeria on May 31, 2020. She […]

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

The Ake Festival 2017 kicked off with an opening ceremony to remember. Thursday November 16, 2017 was a special day […]

The Ake Arts and Book Festival 2017 will take place at the Arts and Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta on November […]

The Ake Review, the journal of the The Ake Arts and Book Festival, is looking for submissions for the 2017 […]

Ake Festival 2016 headliner Ngugi Wa Thiong’o was moderated by Okey Ndibe at the final book type event on November […]

The longlist for the Etisalat Prize for Literature for 2015 was announced today. The prize launched in June 2013 as […]

September 16, 2015

It seems like it’s all going down in the African literature calendar in September. Apart from the Open Books and […]

The judges for this year’s edition of the Etisalat Prize for African literature are Ato Quayson who is chairing alongside […]

Yesterday we gave a report from the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) convention that ended last weekend in the West […]

Author Richard Ali gives us a run down of the Association of Nigerian Authors convention that ended last weekend. Africa’s […]