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  • Guinness World Record at Marrakech International Storytelling Festival 2025

    Guinness World Record at Marrakech International Storytelling Festival 2025

    The Guinness World Record for continuous storytelling was made at the Marrakech International Storytelling Festival 2025 from January 21 – 24, 2025. The Marrakech International Storytelling Festival is a free, open-access event that celebrates the art of storytelling. Founded by Mike and Lucie Wood and first hosted in 2021, it takes place in public spaces,…

  • Recap 2024: Books, literary magazines and journals

    Recap 2024: Books, literary magazines and journals

    As part of our 2024 recap, we list some books, literary magazines, and journals in African and Black Literature published over the year. Literary magazines and journals The literary journal or magazine is one of the most important platforms in the literary and publishing sector. A publisher calls for fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, or photography…

  • Nana Ekua Brew Hammond features at Labone Dialogues

    Nana Ekua Brew Hammond features at Labone Dialogues

    Nana Ekua Brew Hammond was a guest of “Labone Dialogues,” the series hosted by NYU Accra in Ghana on Thursday, December 5, 2024. ‘Labone Dialogues by NYU Accra’ was conceived and curated by New York University Accra Director Prof Chiké Frankie Edozien in Accra, Ghana in 2020. The series hosts events celebrating writers and other…

  • Literary Magazines: Weganda Review, Obsidian Lit, Will This Be A Problem?

    Literary Magazines: Weganda Review, Obsidian Lit, Will This Be A Problem?

    New editions of literary magazines Obsidian Lit, Weganda Review, and Will This Be A Problem? are now available. Obsidian Lit Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Publications Unit, Department of English, Illinois State University, a body corporate and politic of the State of Illinois. The magazine’s…

  • Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2025 nominees announced

    Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2025 nominees announced

    The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2025 nominees were announced in Sweden on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. Here are the writers, illustrators, storytellers, reading promoters, and organisations of African descent in the running. Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays best known for several children’s book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga,…

  • Morland Writing Scholarships 2024 shortlist announced.

    Morland Writing Scholarships 2024 shortlist announced.

    The Morland Writing Scholarships 2024 shortlists have been announced today, Monday, October 14, 2024. The Morland Writing Scholarships for African Writers, popularly referred to as the Morland Writing Scholarship, is an opportunity to allow writers to finish a manuscript. In the past, the scholarship has been accorded to writers from across the continent like Yewande…

  • Nairobi International Book Fair 2024 starts September 25

    Nairobi International Book Fair 2024 starts September 25

    The Nairobi International Book Fair 2024, the 25th edition, will be hosted at the Sarit Centre from September 25 – 29, 2024. The Nairobi International Book Fair, organised annually by the Kenya Publishers Association, has brought together publishers, authors, booksellers, print suppliers, media, and readers from Africa and worldwide since the first edition in 1996.…

  • Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2024 prizes awarded.

    Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2024 prizes awarded.

    Prizes were handed out at the closing ceremony of Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2024 in Bamako, Mali on Saturday, February 24, 2024. Rentrée Littéraire du Mali (Literary Return of Mali) is a festival of books, words, and ideas hosted annually in Bamako, Mali. Since 2008, the festival has invited writers, academics, researchers, and artists from…

  • Lire à Douala 2024 starts January 29

    Lire à Douala 2024 starts January 29

    Lire à Douala 2024 is set to be hosted in the Cameroonian city of Douala from January 29 – February 1, 2024. The festival theme is “Because books tell us who we are.” “Lire à Douala” (English: reading in Doula) is an association whose objective is to promote reading, written expression, and the development of…

  • Bernardine Evaristo to chair Global Black Women’s Nonfiction Manuscript Prize jury.

    Bernardine Evaristo to chair Global Black Women’s Nonfiction Manuscript Prize jury.

    Bernardine Evaristo is the chair of the jury of the new Global Black Women’s Nonfiction Manuscript Prize announced on November 28. Others are Sylvia Tamale, Natalie Baszile, Carole Boyce Davies, and Panashe Chigumadzi. In October, Cassava Republic Press announced the new Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize open to emerging and established Black women writers globally.…

  • South African Literary Awards 2023 winners announced.

    South African Literary Awards 2023 winners announced.

    The winners of the South African Literary Awards were announced at the University of North West, Potchefstroom on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. The South African Literary Awards, popularly referred to as the SALAs, have honoured many authors since they were founded in 2005. Winning writers and poets have included Es’kia Mphahlele, Nadine Gordimer, Miriam Tlali,…

  • Bulelwa Mabasa, CA Davids win Sunday Times Literary Awards 2023  

    Bulelwa Mabasa, CA Davids win Sunday Times Literary Awards 2023  

    Bulelwa Mabasa and CA Davids won in their categories at the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2023 in Johannesburg on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. The Sunday Times Literary Prize, organised by South African newspaper The Sunday Times, are titles awarded in fiction and nonfiction. Founded in 1989, it has been won by Siphiwe Ndlovu and Terry…

  • Susan Kiguli receives Festival Di Poesia Civile Vercelli 2023 lifetime award.

    Susan Kiguli receives Festival Di Poesia Civile Vercelli 2023 lifetime award.

    Susan Kiguli received the Festival Di Poesia Civile Vercelli 2023 lifetime award in Vercelli, Italy on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. Festival Di Poesia Civile Vercelli (English: International Civil Poetry Festival of the city of Vercelli), established in 2005, is the only Italian festival celebrating this important aspect of contemporary poetry. The function of poetry in…

  • Obari Gomba wins NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2023

    Obari Gomba wins NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2023

    Dr Obari Gomba’s play Grit was declared the winner of the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2023 in Lagos on Friday, October 13, 2023. Dr Eyoh Etim also won the Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism. The Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored annually by oil firm NLNG, was started to honour Nigerian authors in the four…

  • Ishion Hutchinson, Jason Allen-Paisant on T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2023 shortlist

    Ishion Hutchinson, Jason Allen-Paisant on T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2023 shortlist

    Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant are on the shortlist for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2023 announced on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry was inaugurated to celebrate the UK Poetry Book Society’s 40th birthday and honour its founding poet in 1993. T.S. Eliot, full name Thomas Stearns Eliot…