Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra returns for its tenth edition from October 16 to 18, 2026, hosted across the Goethe-Institut Ghana and the Foundation for Contemporary Art–Ghana in Cantonments, ...

Egyptian writer Abdelrahman ElGendy, Senegalese novelist Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, and Togo-born author Delali Adjoa are among the writers featured on the 2026 National Book Awards longlists, appearing ...

IHRAM Press has released Our Roots, the second issue of its 2026 literary magazine, gathering poetry and prose under the theme "Stories of Land and Climate." Published on July 30, 2026, the issue ...

Submissions are now open for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, the annual award given to an African poet who has not yet published a full-length poetry collection. The winner receives ...

Sickle cell disease is one of the health conditions most deeply associated with people of African descent, and its burden is particularly heavy in sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization ...

It’s the year 2000, a warm August day in Nairobi. Nani will become Black in the next 24 hours, she just doesn’t know it yet.

The finalists for the 2026 Walcott Prize are out! Two Nigerian poets have made the finalist list for the 2026 Derek Walcott ...

For one Saturday in August, Nairobi became a meeting place for anime, manga, cosplay, gaming, and Japanese pop culture, as thousands of fans gathered at the Carnivore Grounds for Otamatsuri 2026. Held ...

Walk into Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin–Madison this month, and you'll run into a small, colorful surprise: ...

Nigerian American author and journalist Itoro Bassey has been selected for the 2026 fiction cohort of Get the Word Out, Poets & Writers’ publicity incubator for early-career authors. Bassey is one of ...