When Celebrity “Homecomings” Clash With African Passport Reality
A growing wave of Black American celebrities is turning symbolic ties to Africa into something more
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NEW BOOK ALERT: Krystle Zara Appiah’s Half Lives Is a Gut-Punch of a Novel About Sisters, Secrets, and the Children They Share
British-Ghanaian writer Krystle Zara Appiah is back with her second novel, Half Lives, published by HarperCollins on June 4, 2026. The novel opens in 1970s Ghana, where sisters Evelyn and Maggie are two sides of the same coin, reliable Evelyn entrusted to support her struggling family, while Maggie
The Polygamist’s Netflix Success Signals a New Era for African Literary Adaptations
On June 12, Netflix released all twenty-two episodes of The Polygamist, a South African supernovela based on a novel that mainstream publishers had once declined to print. Within a week, the show had accumulated 19.1 million viewing hours and debuted at number four on Netflix’s global non-English TV
Ozoz Sokoh’s Chop Chop Wins Big Twice Over: Nautilus Gold in May, James Beard’s Emerging Voice in June
Nigerian food writer Ozoz Sokoh has had the kind of year that cookbook authors dream about. In May, Chop Chop: Cooking the Food of Nigeria won the Gold Award in the Food, Cooking, and Healthy Eating category at the 2026 Nautilus Book Awards. Then, on June 13, the same book won Emerging Voice in Book
How African Players Are Powering “Foreign” Teams at the 2026 World Cup
The 2026 World Cup is quietly a tournament of migration stories, with a quarter of all
Oyinkan Braithwaite, Tochi Onyebuchi, Wole Talabi, and More African Writers Make the 2026 Ignyte Awards Finalists
The Ignyte Awards, presented annually since 2020 to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, have announced their 2026 finalists. The list was revealed on Monday, June 8, with public voting open through August 16. In Outstand
‘Read, and Read Some More’: Ellah Wakatama on What She’s Really Looking for as Chair of the 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Ellah Wakatama is one of the most respected figures in contemporary publishing — Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Caine Prize for African Writing, and now Chair of Judges for the 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. In a recent Q&A with Wasafiri, she
“This Weight Is Too Heavy”: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Speaks Out on the Death of Her Son and Euracare Hospital’s Response
Five months have passed since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her husband, Dr. Ivara Esege, lost their 21-month-old son, Nkanu Nnamdi, on January 7, 2026. Months of grief that, by Adichie’s own account, has been made heavier by the conduct of Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital in Lagos, where Nkanu die
The Big Thursday Briefing: The constitution of code: A Geosociotechnopolitical perspective on digital constitutionalism in Africa
Why sovereignty, artificial intelligence, and digital governance must become constitutional questions. The post The Big Thursday Briefing: The constitution of code: A Geosociotechnopolitical perspective on digital constitutionalism in Africa appeared first on This is Africa.
Netflix’s “The Herd” Turns A Wedding Into A Survival Thriller
Netflix’s “The Herd” is a tense Nollywood thriller about a wedding that turns into a