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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. Kenechi Uzor understood that African proverb long before he first saw a lion in the flesh, 7,200 miles from ...

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 ...

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks during the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates on November 10, 2025. [Caroline Chebet, Standard] One of the major accusations ...

I didn’t start reading fiction until later in my life. Correction: I did not begin to consciously read until I was 15; I was still subjected to mandatory reading time both at school and at home. Back ...

These five books show the depth of Kenyan fiction writing, Nigerians who adore African Literature would love these books. Kenyan Literature is one of the richest on the African continent, and Kenyan ...

It is very important for upcoming literature writers to author their work in African languages for posterity of their communities' culture and local languages. The East African Education Publishers (E ...

When Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Oct. 7 — the first Black African writer since Nigerian Wole Soyinka won it in 1986 — you could almost hear the head-scratching, at ...