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.
A thin, concentrated layer of gatekeepers, funded largely from outside the continent, has come to stand in for the publishing infrastructure Africa doesn't have. That substitution rewards proximity to a handful of institutions over the work itself, and it leaves a writer's career resting on a small number of people who happened to be paying attention.
In six brief tracks, Black Sherif moves from doubt to gratitude to devotion, rarely stopping long enough to complicate any of them, but the feeling still lands.
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.