Founded in 2018 by sisters Keikantse and Kenanao Phele, the Gaborone Book Festival (GBF) held its 9th edition August 20–22 at the National Museum of Botswana, marking the flagship festival's return ...

The finalists for the 2026 Walcott Prize are out! Two Nigerian poets have made the finalist list for the 2026 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, awarded annually by Arrowsmith Press in partnership with ...

The Doek Literary Festival returns to Windhoek for its third edition, running Wednesday, September 30 through Saturday, October 3, 2026. Hosted every two years by the Doek Arts Trust, the festival ...

On Saturday, August 29, 2026, Brittle Paper hosted its first-ever Literary Festival, a five-hour virtual gathering built ...

There is an exquisite pleasure unique to Agatha Christie and which the African literary tradition has, largely, shied away ...

Baba said he was fourteen when he was sixty-seven. At first, we saw it as one of those late-life oddities. Old age had begun ...

The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced the shortlist for its 2026 edition. The writers are Gladwell Pamba from ...

Europe's largest celebration of Black literature is back! The Black British Book Festival, founded by Selina Brown, returns ...

I held onto the collar of his shirt and bit wherever my teeth could find flesh — his neck, his jaw, the soft skin beneath his ear. My nails dug into him until I felt skin give way beneath them. He did ...

During the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, as Cairo fills with protests and uncertainty, two women meet in a subway station near ...