Samuel Delgado, a Brazilian academic, is translating Nigerian poet Femi Morgan’s collection Renegade into Portuguese. The project has been under way since 2020, and is tentatively due to appear as a full book in 2027. Delgado, a researcher, literary translator and language lecturer at the Instituto
Aké Arts and Book Festival is back in two weeks, and its 14th edition has picked a fight with the machines. The theme for 2026 is “Native Intelligence,” and the question it puts to Lagos is a pointed one: if artificial intelligence learns from what has been written down, what happens to the knowledg
South African book influencer Nokukhanya Ntsaluba is now Dr. Ntsaluba! She has graduated with a PhD in Law and Gender and shared a set of six photos of the milestone on Instagram, posing in red and gold doctoral robes, a soft blue bonnet, and a sharp pinstriped suit on a tree-lined London street. Nt
It was a chilly afternoon in late November 2024 when I first met the Kenyan painter and artist, Velma Rosai, at the Ngong race course in Nairobi. The occasion was Sexual Utopia, a festival on sex, sexualities, and pleasure that I co-directed with Kaz, a Kenyan sex educator and pole dance instructor.
British-Nigerian poet Theresa Lola has been selected as part of the judging panel for the 2027 Women’s Prize for Fiction. The Women’s Prize Trust announced that scholar, critic, and editor Merve Emre will chair the panel. Lola joins broadcaster and podcast host Charlotte Collins (Editor-in-Chief of
Three writers and artists have been named the Fall 2026 fellows of the Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence program at The Africa Institute, part of Global Studies University (GSU) in Sharjah, UAE. They are Ugandan novelist Goretti Kyomuhendo, Nigerian essayist Nzube Nlebedim, and Tanzani
Halloween may be over, but Yomi Adegoke’s costume deserves one more lap. The British-Nigerian author and journalist posted her look from the “Twisted Fairytales” Halloween party at Annabel’s in Mayfair, and the fairytale did not go the way you remember it. The costume is classic Goldilocks gone fera
Whose Knowledge? and the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) are hosting a virtual launch of their joint research on Community-Centered Sovereign Language Technologies on Thursday, November 12, 2026, 15:30 UTC. The event is free to attend online, and registration is open on Zoom. The organisers
Two African writers are among the 25 finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards: Egyptian author Abdelrahman ElGendy, in Nonfiction, for his memoir Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming, and Senegalese novelist Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, in Translated Literature, for Pure Men, translated fr
Carey Baraka has written a long, richly detailed portrait of Ellah Wakatama, the Zimbabwe-born editor who may have shaped the 21st-century African canon more than anyone else, and it is worth your time. Published by Psyche under the title “The Bookshelf Builder” and edited by Alizeh Kohari, it opens