A decade ago, a poem by an unknown Sudanese-American writer doing unusual things with Arabic script and English on the page caught the attention of the Brunel Prize judges, and ours too! Safia Elhillo ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Submissions are now open for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, the annual award given to an African poet who ...

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 ...

I, Nwakaego, wife of Amaechi, of Umuokwe, being of sound mind and of a body that has finally stopped arguing with me, have set down my last instructions. Before anything is given, hear my conditions.

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.