In Africa, mental health is something we don’t often talk about. We understand headaches. We understand stomach ulcers and ...

What happens when African and Caribbean literature is read alongside itself, rather than continually measured against Europe ...

Novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite sits down with actor Wunmi Mosaku for the October 2026 issue of British Vogue, bringing together ...

Ankara Press, the commercial imprint of Cassava Republic Press, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Ghanaian writer Cheryl Ntumy's The Seven States, a three-book romantasy series blending ...

Nigerian-British journalist Emmanuel Akinwotu has been appointed The New York Times' new West Africa correspondent, joining ...

At 18, Nigerian-American poet Daniel Somtochukwu Umemezie has become the tenth National Youth Poet Laureate of the United ...

Poetry Africa will mark its 30th edition this October with five days of performances, poetry slams, workshops, industry ...

Wole Talabi has revealed the West African cover for his forthcoming novel, The Fist of Memory, announcing the design ...

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 ...

Years after the Nigerian Civil War, Ìfẹ́olúwa Ayandele’s grandfather was still carrying the weight of what he had lost. He had served as a soldier, returned home, and later travelled to Lagos to ...

The Lagos International Festival of Illustrations (LIFI), hosted by the Book Buzz Foundation, ran its 2026 edition from September 17 to 19, bringing together nine international illustrators and a coho ...

Damon Galgut, the South African novelist who won the Booker Prize in 2021 for The Promise, made his first visit to Korea last week for the 2026 Seoul International Writers' Festival, organized by the ...