“Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies” is the theme of the 2017 African Literature Association (ALA) Conference taking place at Yale University June 14-17. The conference ...

For many American children of Wendy Laura Belcher’s generation, Africa was the land of Babar and of Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan, yodeling “Ungawa!” and swinging through the jungle in small-screen ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Evelyn Mousigian/TMD. I didn’t start reading fiction until later in my life. Correction: I did not ...

In 1960, the landmark year in which 17 African nations achieved their independence, the Ford Foundation announced its ...

Yale faculty member Cajetan Iheka was an undergraduate in his home country of Nigeria at the height of unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta in the 2000s. Militants were setting fire to oil installations ...

African literature is the object of immense international interest across both academic and popular registers. Far from the field’s earlier, post-colonial association with marginality, a handful of ...

What is the state of African literature given the number of African writers-poets, novelists, playwrights, more, who have moved to the Western world overtime? This issue of the mixture of African ...

NAIROBI – In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet Mbata, who ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya's capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Nuria ...