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 ...

LaFayette library hosts traveling exhibit on African American Georgia writers, featuring Alice Walker, Jean Toomer, and ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet ...

Definitions: 'From the rubbish-heap'. World literature and national literatures. The cultures of Africa. The literatures of Africa -- Early writers of African descent: Pre-Islamic and early Islamic ...

Africa has no shortage of world-class literature. What it has had is a distribution problem.ContentsA New Era for African ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan writer. She was born 1966. Her short story collection, Tropical Fish, won the Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction in 2003 and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best ...

The first book-length study of digital literature in Africa has attracted a lot of academic attention. African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Kenya and ...