I. After my father’s demise, I travelled from Ibadan, back home to visit my mother after a year apart. I had gotten home late ...

Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman is coming to the stage. The novel will receive its first theatrical adaptation at London's National Theatre, where Natasha Gordon's new production will have its world ...

Kelechi Okafor has made her young adult debut with Are You Still Watching?, a speculative thriller from Scholastic that takes ...

What happens when African and Caribbean literature is read alongside itself, rather than continually measured against Europe ...

Ankara Press, the commercial imprint of Cassava Republic Press, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Ghanaian writer Cheryl Ntumy's The Seven States, a three-book romantasy series blending ...

Novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite sits down with actor Wunmi Mosaku for the October 2026 issue of British Vogue, bringing together ...

Poetry Africa will mark its 30th edition this October with five days of performances, poetry slams, workshops, industry ...

Nigerian-British journalist Emmanuel Akinwotu has been appointed The New York Times' new West Africa correspondent, joining ...

IHRAM Press has released Our Roots, the second issue of its 2026 literary magazine, gathering poetry and prose under the theme "Stories of Land and Climate." Published on July 30, 2026, the issue ...

Wole Talabi has revealed the West African cover for his forthcoming novel, The Fist of Memory, announcing the design ...

In Legacy of Obsidian, Nerine Dorman drops a sheltered young prince into a world where winter has swallowed almost everything and the clans fighting for what remains are already turning on one another ...

At 18, Nigerian-American poet Daniel Somtochukwu Umemezie has become the tenth National Youth Poet Laureate of the United ...