#THIS: Hannah Pool, Journalist and Curator, Africa Utopia at Africa Writes, the Royal African Society's annual literature festival, chairing 'African Books to I...
It is now a near-cliché, but it is the truth; African literature is undergoing a renaissance. The reader who loves fiction is enjoying an embarrassment of riche...
Interview - Dr. Jenny Mbaye Lecturer in Culture and Creative Industries, City University, London
Through my work I have the fortunate opportunity to meet i...
Ahead of Africa Writes, which this year hosts a panel on literary magazines that have have shaped the production and reception of African literature and ideas, ...
Dele Meiji Fatunla and I are back again with another list - this time on ten gay characters from African Literature Everyone Should Know. I love lists - even th...
Chimamanda Adichie’s got a short story, “Jumping Monkey Hill”, in which her protagonist, Ujunwa, a young Nigerian writer is stuck in a literary retreat in Cape ...
So…a while back, ahead of Africa Writes, in collaboration with the Bookshy Blogger’s Zahrah Nessbit-Ahmed, we published a list of 25 Books by African Women tha...
Tendai Huchu announced his arrival on the literary scene with his novel The Hairdresser Of Harare, in his second offering, The Maestro, The Magistrate & The...
January 17th will mark the 54th anniversary of the assasination of independent Congo's first, democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Here, writ...
We’ve already got into the thick of things for 2015 – however, the beginning of the first month of the year seems like a good time (the only time?) to reflect o...