The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced the shortlist for its 2026 edition. The writers are Gladwell Pamba from ...

Europe's largest celebration of Black literature is back! The Black British Book Festival, founded by Selina Brown, returns ...

During the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, as Cairo fills with protests and uncertainty, two women meet in a subway station near ...

I had braced myself for a difficult day, but even so, I had not expected my car battery to die. At the end of work, when I ...

Five documentary filmmakers have emerged as finalists for the maiden edition of the Nigeria Prize for Creative Arts (NPCA), ...

British-Nigerian author Bolu Babalola, known for the romcom-crowned works Love in Colour, Honey & Spice, and Sweet Heat, has ...

The American University in Cairo Press has revealed the shortlist for the 2026 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, one of ...

Blessing Musariri has made the shortlist for the 2026 Kirkus Prize, with her young adult novel When It's Your Turn for ...

Modjaji Books has released Gathered Seams, a poetry anthology gathering nineteen poems from women writers across Namibia, ...

What happens when the fate of an entire people rests on the shoulders of a cursed warrior and a healer who can barely trust ...

Thirty years is long enough for a festival to become something closer to a tradition, and Poetry Africa marks that milestone ...

Taiye Selasi has a new story in The New Yorker, and it reads more like a letter than fiction, one woman writing to another ...