Category: Launches

  • Book Digest: Anna Samwel Manyanza, Donna Hemans, Lauren Beukes, Safia Elhillo

    Book Digest: Anna Samwel Manyanza, Donna Hemans, Lauren Beukes, Safia Elhillo

    We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Anna Samwel Manyanza, Donna Hemans, Lauren Beukes, and Safia Elhillo. Faradhi Ya Moyo by Anna Samwel Manyanza Publisher:  Mkuki Na NyotaDate:  February 1, 2024Genre:  FictionLanguage:  KiswahiliWhere to find it:  African Books Collective, TPHBookshops, Mkuki Na Nyota Anna Samwel…

  • Literary events for an action-packed Nairobi weekend.

    Literary events for an action-packed Nairobi weekend.

    A book fair and festival, book launch, and author bonding sessions are on offer for lovers of the literary arts in Nairobi this coming weekend. As the year runs down, many literary events are hosted in Nairobi to beat the year-end. After a quiet start to 2023, Soma Nami’s African Book Festival, Book Bunk’s NBO…

  • Goretti Kyomuhendo’s “Whispers from Vera” 20th anniversary in Kampala

    Goretti Kyomuhendo’s “Whispers from Vera” 20th anniversary in Kampala

    The twentieth anniversary of Goretti Kyomuhendo’s novel Whispers from Vera was hosted at the Goethe-Zentrum in Kampala, Uganda on Friday, September 8, 2023. Goretti Kyomuhendo’s first book Whispers from Vera described by readers as timely and timeless was published in 2002. A new version of the book was reissued by the African Writers Trust on…

  • Polycarp Otieno, Melissa Wakhu’s “Lala Land” launches in Nairobi.

    Polycarp Otieno, Melissa Wakhu’s “Lala Land” launches in Nairobi.

    Lala Land, the second children’s book collaboration between Polycarp Otieno and Melissa Wakhu, launched in Nairobi on March 19, 2022. The event is part of the forthcoming Moto Festival. In February, Half Price Books in partnership with the Village Market Mall announced a new event called the Moto Festival. “Moto” is “Fire” in Kiswahili which…

  • Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva collection ‘Dress me in Disobedience’ launches

    Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva collection ‘Dress me in Disobedience’ launches

    Dress me in Disobedience, the new poetry collection by Ugandan poet Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva launched on January 2, 2022. Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva came to the attention of the African literary community when she came up with what became the Babishai Niwe Poetry Prize in 2008. It started as a prize only for Ugandan women but…

  • Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang’s “The Daughters of Nandi” Johannesburg pre-launch.

    Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang’s “The Daughters of Nandi” Johannesburg pre-launch.

    Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang’s debut novel The Daughters of Nandi, published by Paivapo Publishers, debuted in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 4, 2021. Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang is a South African writer, academic, producer and broadcaster who has published the following books for young readers: In the Fast Lane (2003, New Africa Books); A Mozambican Summer (2005,…

  • Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s “The House of Rust” launches to full house in Mombasa.

    Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s “The House of Rust” launches to full house in Mombasa.

    Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s debut novel The House of Rust launched to a full house at the Alliance Française, Mombasa on Thursday, November 25, 2021. The evening was emceed by Hawa Noor. Khadija Abdalla Bajaber is one of the brightest young writers to come out of Kenya in the last few years. The Mombasa born and…

  • Richard Ali A Mutu K’s novel “Et les Portes Sont des Bouches” launches in Kinshasa.

    Richard Ali A Mutu K’s novel “Et les Portes Sont des Bouches” launches in Kinshasa.

    Richard Ali A Mutu K’s latest novel Et les Portes Sont des Bouches launched in Kinshasa, DR Congo on Friday, September 10, 2021. Richard Ali A Mutu K is a Congolese writer living in Kinshasa who writes in French and in Lingala. His novel, Ebamba Kinshasa Makambo, written in Lingala, one of the ​​most widely…

  • South Sudan women’s “No Time to Mourn” anthology launches

    South Sudan women’s “No Time to Mourn” anthology launches

    No Time to Mourn, a new anthology featuring writing by women from South Sudan, launched in Juba, South Sudan on July 7, 2021. In June 2019, FEMRITE and Oxfam collaborated to convene a week-long writing retreat for 18 South Sudanese women living in Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, and Australia. The retreat aimed to give participants an…

  • Wole Soyinka’s new novel is launching across Nigeria.

    Wole Soyinka’s new novel is launching across Nigeria.

    Wole Soyinka’s new novel, Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth, is currently making its way across Nigeria. Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth is the third novel from Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and his first since 1972. The book, published by Pantheon at Penguin Random House in the US, is set in…

  • Jalada Africa’s “Nostalgia Anthology” in virtual launch.

    Jalada Africa’s “Nostalgia Anthology” in virtual launch.

    The Nostalgia Anthology, the latest from Jalada Africa the Pan African writers collective, launched online on Friday, December 4, 2020. Jalada Africa, the pan African writers’ collective and publisher was born when writers from across the continent converged in Nairobi in 2014. They have since gone on to publish many critically acclaimed anthologies both as…

  • Angela Makholwa’s newest novel “Critical But Stable” launches.

    Angela Makholwa’s newest novel “Critical But Stable” launches.

    Angela Makholwa’s newest novel Critical But Stable launched physically on November 12 and virtually on November 17, 2020. Angela Makholwa is the author of the titles Red Ink (2007), The 30th Candle (2010) (our review), The Black Widow Society (2013) (our review), and The Blessed Girl (2017). The newest novel from the Johannesburg-resident is the…

  • Niq Mhlongo, Bongani Kona talk writing “Joburg Noir.”

    Niq Mhlongo, Bongani Kona talk writing “Joburg Noir.”

    Niq Mhlongo and Bongani Kona were the speakers at the Johannesburg launch of the Akashic Books published Joburg Noir on November 11, 2020. Their moderator was Lorraine Sithole. Akashic Books is a US publisher of urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are ignored by the mainstream. One of the most remarkable of…

  • Resoketswe Manenzhe’s debut novel “Scatterlings” launches on November 9.

    Resoketswe Manenzhe’s debut novel “Scatterlings” launches on November 9.

    Resoketswe Manenzhe’s debut novel Scatterlings, published by Jacana Media, had a virtual launch on November 9, 2020. The event had moderation by Rémy Ngamije with Mubanga Kalimamukwento as panellist. The Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, first handed out in 2004, is a literary prize open to writers that are resident in South Africa and the greater…

  • African and Black Literature events for November 2020.

    African and Black Literature events for November 2020.

    We give you a list of events across the African and Black Literature world you can attend in November 2020. Send us your event to add to this list. November 4 Event: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim to kick-off James Murua Literary LiveStreamEvent Type: LiveStreamVenue: Online Abubakar Adam Ibrahim will kick off the new James Murua Literary…