The International Booker Prize will henceforth be known as the Bukhman International Booker Prize. Grant-giving organisation Bukhman Philanthropies has committed to funding the next ten years of the prize, following its support in 2026, and in recognition of the decade-long partnership, the prize wi
PEN America received the highest number of applicants in 29 years for its 2026 Emerging Voices Fellowship, and among the eleven writers selected from that extraordinary pool is Chisaraokwu Asomugha, an Igbo American poet whose work sits at the intersection of archival research, visual art, and diasp
If you have a book you have been meaning to write, the Miles Morland Foundation wants to hear from you. The 2026 Morland Writing Scholarships for African writers opened for entries on 1 July, with a deadline of 22 September. Each year, the Foundation awards a small number of scholarships with a sing
I finished the first draft of my debut novel sitting alone in Kampala. No editor waiting. No agent. No publishing house to call. Just the manuscript on my screen and a question I hadn’t fully prepared for. Now what? That question is where many African writers get stuck. Not because they lack talent.
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel about two Nigerians whose lives unspool across Lagos, New York, and London, has been picked up for screen adaptation by Canal+, the French global media and entertainment company, as part of its “Creating African Stories With Global Resonance” initiat
Noisy Streetss is accepting submissions for the fourth edition of its annual storytelling series, Love in Detty December, from June 15 to August 15, 2026. The series was born from a simple idea: to explore what it means to fall in, or out of, love during Africa’s December, a season unlike any other,
Stephanie Bosch Santana’s Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and Media in African Literary Cultures has won the African Literature Association’s Award for Best First Book, presented last month at the ALA’s annual conference in Knoxville, Tennessee. The win makes Forms of Mobility one of the most de
At the barber shop, the barber asks where I come from. I say “Kenya.” He nods politely and drapes a shawl around my shoulders. I want him to ask another question. Which part of Kenya? What was it like? Why did you leave? Instead, he focuses on my hair while my mind travels thousands […]
From childhood nostalgia to writing sleeve notes in exile, Takura Zhangazha’s devotion to Thomas Mapfumo faces its ultimate test. As the Chimurenga icon plans a controversial 2026 return to Zimbabwe funded by the ultra-rich, Mukanya’s legacy hangs in the balance. Can a legendary champion of the poor
Bitcoin promised Africa a radical path to monetary sovereignty, bypassing legacy colonial currency traps. Today, that revolutionary potential is being hollowed out by a performative, NGO-style savior complex. Symbolic photo-ops and deceptive fundraising have replaced genuine economic utility. The ec