It’s the year 2000, a warm August day in Nairobi. Nani will become Black in the next 24 hours, she just doesn’t know it yet.

Submissions are now open for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, the annual award given to an African poet who ...

Sickle cell disease is one of the health conditions most deeply associated with people of African descent, and its burden is ...

Walk into Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin–Madison this month, and you'll run into a small, colorful surprise: ...

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 Caine Prize for African Writing has teamed up with Pa Gya! Literary Festival, in partnership with the British Council and with support from the Open Society Foundations, to launch a three-day self ...

Noisy Streetss Publishing, the Nigerian independent press known for centering the authentic stories of young Africans, is stepping into longform fiction. The publisher has unveiled a 2027–2028 slate ...

Feminist Africa has released Volume 7, Issue 1, a special commemorative issue titled "Twenty Years of the African Feminist Forum." First published in April 2026, the issue honors two decades of the ...

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

For one Saturday in August, Nairobi became a meeting place for anime, manga, cosplay, gaming, and Japanese pop culture, as thousands of fans gathered at the Carnivore Grounds for Otamatsuri 2026. Held ...