NoViolet Bulawayo says while Zimbabwe inspired her latest book, Glory, she sees it as "my humble contribution" to the collective struggles of "resistance movements across the world ... Read more »
The paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, renowned for uncovering evidence that humanity's ancestors evolved in Africa has died at the age of 77, President Uhuru Kenyatta has ... Read more »
South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction for his novel The Promise. This was the third time Galgut ... Read more »
Rwandan dissidents have died under mysterious circumstances inside and outside the country with alarming frequency in recent years. On September 14, Revocat Karemangingo, Read more »
The Swedish Academy, which chooses the winners, said it had chosen Tanzania's Abdulrazak Gurnah "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism ... Read more »
French-Senegalese writer, David Diop, has been awarded this year's prestigious International Booker Prize for his debut novel At Night All Blood Is Black. The book ... Read more »
Writers, politicians, and feminists united to pay tribute to pioneering Egyptian activist Nawal El Saadawi following her death aged 89. They vowed that her work would live on ... Read more »
Tsitsi Dangarembga, the multi-award-winning novelist, playwright, and filmmaker has been announced as the recipient of the PEN Freedom of Expression Award which ... Read more »
Whether it's been light-hearted love stories, heart-wrenching histories, or gritty thrillers, African writers have provided us with some brilliant books in 2020, all of which have ... Read more »
University of Cape Town student Qhawe Bula and his team have developed a unique digital library comprising a series of read-along children's audiobooks written in South Africa's 11 ... Read more »
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