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 ...

they had it finally in a grip. letting the dead lie, in the mist, in the boughs behind, their whispers were there and urging them on. tangling in the music of the beasts call. it wrestled against the ...

Nigerian literature isn’t new to dysfunctional families, and perhaps this is because family is such a prized institution in Africa. In Nigeria especially, it is often the source of our conversational ...

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

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

Blessing Musariri has made the shortlist for the 2026 Kirkus Prize, with her young adult novel When It’s Your Turn for Midnight selected as a finalist in the Young Readers’ Literature category and ...

I had braced myself for a difficult day, but even so, I had not expected my car battery to die. At the end of work, when I ...

The American University in Cairo Press has revealed the shortlist for the 2026 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, one of ...

Five documentary filmmakers have emerged as finalists for the maiden edition of the Nigeria Prize for Creative Arts (NPCA), ...

What happens when the fate of an entire people rests on the shoulders of a cursed warrior and a healer who can barely trust ...

British-Nigerian author Bolu Babalola, known for the romcom-crowned works Love in Colour, Honey & Spice, and Sweet Heat, has ...