Anyone familiar with African literature is likely to have read one of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels or NoViolet Bulawayo’s highly praised debut We Need New Names. If you’re looking to delve deeper ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Speculative fiction is booming and several African authors are staking a claim in the market. Donald Iain Smith/Getty Images Jedza ...

Books are a great way to learn more about cultures, identities, and much more. That’s why we want to help you add a few more to your summer reading list. For Africa Day this year, we asked our ONE ...

I didn’t start reading fiction until later in my life. Correction: I did not begin to consciously read until I was 15; I was still subjected to mandatory reading time both at school and at home. Back ...

Nigerian author Wole Soyinka speaks to journalists at the UNESCO headquarters after he became the first author from Africa to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paris, 1986 (AP photo by Laurent ...

The report, produced in partnership with Parrot Analytics, finds that African and diasporan content is already traveling ...

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks during the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates on November 10, 2025. [Caroline Chebet, Standard] One of the major accusations ...

A feature of the Macondo Literary Festival, which was founded by journalist Anja Bengelstorff and award-winning Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, has been to invite authors from the continent or ...

Africa has no shortage of world-class literature. What it has had is a distribution problem.ContentsA New Era for African ...

The annual Richmond African American Book Festival returned on Saturday to celebrate history, culture and literacy.

It is very important for upcoming literature writers to author their work in African languages for posterity of their communities' culture and local languages. The East African Education Publishers (E ...