On 29 August, we held the inaugural Brittle Paper Literary Festival for Aspiring Writers, and 283 readers and writers showed ...

Fiction is often where we come to read and enjoy interesting stories about life, its ups and downs, its strange turns and ...

The greatest evil resides in a sanctuary of goodness. _Unknown The Doubler I feel hatred all the time. It is the very ...

A new documentary is in production on Onitsha Market Literature, the pamphlet trade that ran out of the market town of Onitsha for roughly two decades either side of Nigerian independence. Written and ...

Every book club knows the struggle of finding that next great read. You scroll through bestseller lists, revisit the books ...

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 ...

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

Founded in 2018 by sisters Keikantse and Kenanao Phele, the Gaborone Book Festival (GBF) held its 9th edition August 20–22 at the National Museum of Botswana, marking the flagship festival's return ...

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 Doek Literary Festival returns to Windhoek for its third edition, running Wednesday, September 30 through Saturday, October 3, 2026. Hosted every two years by the Doek Arts Trust, the festival ...

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

The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced the shortlist for its 2026 edition. The writers are Gladwell Pamba from ...