When two of the most serious allegations against a Nebula-winning author were formally retracted seven weeks later, the outlets that broke the original story gave the correction a fraction of the reach of the accusation, a pattern that repeats across a running post, a buried newsletter update, and a mainstream roundup that never revised its own sentence.
A new documentary by writer and linguist Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún will revisit Onitsha Market Literature, the short-lived pamphlet trade that flourished around Nigerian independence and left behind an unlikely archive of popular writing.
The screenwriter and Sex Education writer won the romance writing prize for her debut novel-in-progress, Right Person, Wrong Timeline. J. D. Malle and Violet E. Scott were named runners-up.
Two Nigerian poets and Jamaican writer Lorna Goodison are among 15 finalists for the 2026 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry.
This year's five shortlisted stories arrived through five very different publishing routes, which may say more about African literary infrastructure than the five countries on the list do.
The new anthology from Modjaji Books brings together poets from Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa, creating a cross-border conversation about women’s lives and the region’s changing literary landscape.
The selection reflects the breadth of Putuma’s work, which has moved between poetry, theatre and children’s literature while repeatedly returning to questions of religion, memory, identity and cultural inheritance.
For Musariri, the nomination puts When It’s Your Turn for Midnight before a large American literary audience less than six months after its U.S. publication.
The fifth edition of the festival will bring more than 80 authors and cultural figures to London for a day spanning literature, music, poetry, science and publishing.
Nnedi Okorafor and T.L. Huchu receive two nominations each as the African Speculative Fiction Society announces its 2026 shortlist.
Best known for producing records for other artistes, Zaki Amujei takes the lead on For the Ones I Hurt, an eight-track EP that finds him balancing romance, vulnerability and the occasional party turn.