Anyone familiar with African literature is likely to have read one of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels or NoViolet Bulawayo’s highly praised debut We Need New Names. If you’re looking to delve deeper ...

Get ready, readers, because there's a week-long reading event ready to kick off your December. Promoted by publishers and teachers, #ReadAfricaWeek highlights authors from that continent. Don't worry ...

Books are a great way to learn more about cultures, identities, and much more. That’s why we want to help you add a few more to your summer reading list. For Africa Day this year, we asked our ONE ...

Dynamic weapons of soft power, the cultural and creative industries have the wind in their sails on the African continent. Even politicians and business leaders are sitting up and taking notice, as it ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Evelyn Mousigian/TMD. I didn’t start reading fiction until later in my life. Correction: I did not ...

Nigerian author Wole Soyinka speaks to journalists at the UNESCO headquarters after he became the first author from Africa to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paris, 1986 (AP photo by Laurent ...

A feature of the Macondo Literary Festival, which was founded by journalist Anja Bengelstorff and award-winning Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, has been to invite authors from the continent or ...

Are you in need of some funny, beautiful, brave, soulful, and clever women from African literature who have won the hearts of readers? I am a huge fan of Helen Oyeyemi and she is the youngest on this ...

Sheikha Bodour Bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairperson of the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), inaugurated the second edition of the Sharjah Festival of ...