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Caribbean Literature Day 2025 for July 12
The Caribbean Literature Day 2025 is set to be marked for the sixth year across the Caribbean on Sunday, July 12, 2025. St. Martin-based publisher House of Nehesi announced that the first Caribbean Literature Day would be hosted on July 12, 2020. The day was chosen when Spanish Franciscan priest and bishop of Yucatán, Diego…
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A snapshot of the Nairobi LitFest 2025
The Nairobi LitFest 2025, with the theme “alternative knowledge systems,” was hosted in Nairobi from June 26 – 28, 2025. Here is a recap of activities in the fourth edition of the festival. The Nairobi LitFest, a celebration of public libraries as spaces for art, culture, and knowledge production, was first hosted virtually by the…
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Arunma Oteh wins BCA African Business Book of the Year 2025
Arunma Oteh’s book All Hands on Deck for Capital Markets Reform won the BCA African Business Book of the Year 2025 in London, UK, on Friday, July 4, 2025. The Business Council for Africa (BCA) is a not-for-profit organisation connecting Africa to the international business community and investing in Africa’s next generation of business leaders,…
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Leila Aboulela awarded PEN Pinter Prize 2025
Leila Aboulela was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2025 at the English PEN’s summer party in London, UK, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. The PEN Pinter Prize is awarded annually to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland, or the Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize-winning speech, casts an ‘unflinching,…
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Book Digest: Ondjaki, Demi Letsa, Eve Guerra, Nana Ekua Brew Hammond
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Ondjaki, Demi Letsa, Eve Guerra, and Nana Ekua Brew Hammond. 28th February House by Demi Letsa Publisher: IndependentDate: July 3, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: 28th February: A Novel Demi Letsa Demi Letsa, PhD, is a Ghanaian global health professional and storyteller whose work has…
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National Writers Association of Zambia launches with book fair
The National Writers Association of Zambia will launch with a book fair in Lusaka, Zambia, on Thursday, July 17, 2025. The National Writers Association of Zambia is a newly registered association of writers, readers, and researchers with members from within Zambia and in the diaspora. The organisation hopes to promote the development of literature, provide…
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Jedidiah Mugarura wins Sillerman First Book Prize 2025
Jedidiah Mugarura’s poetry manuscript Nyamuteza was declared the Sillerman First Book Prize 2025 winner on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, named after benefactors Laura and Robert F. X. Sillerman, is awarded annually to an African who has not yet published a full collection of poetry. Some of the…
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Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival 2025 for September
The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival 2025 with the theme “Root & Remedy: Prescriptions for an Uncertain World” will be held in Brooklyn, USA, from September 5 – 7, 2025. The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival is a celebration of culture as expressed through the pen of the storyteller and the voice of the poet. Founded by…
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Guyana Prize for Literature 2025 winners announced
The Guyana Prize for Literature 2025 winners were announced at a ceremony in Georgetown, Guyana, on Friday, July 5, 2025. The Guyana Prize for Literature was founded to promote the development of local literature by President Desmond Hoyte in 1987. Prizes were awarded biennially in categories that included best book of fiction, best first book…
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Umuofia Arts and Book Festival 2025 starts July 31
The Umuofia Arts and Book Festival 2025 will be held for the third year in Enugu, Nigeria from July 31 to August 2nd. The Umuofia Arts and Books Festival is a literary and artistic gathering held in Igbo land, Nigeria, named after the fictional village in Chinua Achebe’s iconic 1958 novel Things Fall Apart. Organised…
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Prémio Literário Mia Couto 2025 finalists announced
The Prémio Literário Mia Couto 2025 finalists were announced in Beira, Mozambique on Saturday, July 5, 2025. Prémio Literário Mia Couto (English: Mia Couto Literary Prize) was set up in honour of Beira’s foremost literary export, Mozambique author Mia Couto. Couto has written numerous books which gave him awards like the Camões Prize in 2013,…
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Rebranded Ankara Press returns with two new titles
The new and improved rebranded Ankara Press has returned with new books from Zibu Sithole and Zikoko!, and a call for submissions. In 2014, Cassava Republic Press introduced the African literary community to Ankara Press, their newest imprint. The new outfit was dedicated to publishing romance novels written by African women that would be published…
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David Maillu’s After 430 launches in Nairobi
David Maillu’s 1974 book After 430 was reintroduced to the Kenyan public with a series of events in Nairobi on June 28 and July 4, 2025. Mvua Press introduced the novel The NaiRoberry Cocktail by Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki in an afternoon event in December 2024, which incorporated elements we rarely see in Kenyan writing, like live…
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Guernica Mag visits Lagos, Nigeria
A Guernica Mag team, led by founder Michael Archer, was hosted to several activities in Lagos, Nigeria, in June. Guernica is an online magazine that focuses on the intersection of art and politics, publishing a range of work, including fiction, poetry, essays, reporting, art, and interviews. Founded in 2004 by Michael Archer, it provides global…
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Book Digest: Abdourahman A. Waberi, Sihle Ntuli, Damion Spencer, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Abdourahman A. Waberi, Sihle Ntuli, Damion Spencer, and Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo. Owele by Sihle Ntuli Publisher: Uhlanga PressDate: July 1, 2025Genre: PoetryLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Uhlanga Press Sihle Ntuli Sihle Ntuli was born in KwaMashu in 1990. He holds an MA in Classics from Rhodes…
