Rwandan-French novelist, songwriter, and hip-hop artist Gaël Faye returns with his second novel, Jacaranda, published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and Hogarth Press in the US, and translated into English by Sarah Ardizzone. The book follows Faye’s acclaimed 2016 debut, Small Country, and won France’
HummingBird Journal, the digital literary and arts publication run by Creatives Project GH, has released its third issue, Africa, As We Know It, a collection built around memory, movement, and the everyday textures of African life. The issue arrives as part of the journal’s celebration of African Un
Qwani, the Nairobi-based literary collective, marked its third anniversary with its most ambitious undertaking yet: an inaugural literature festival dubbed “The Transition Edition,” held on Saturday, July 25, 2026, at Baraza Media Lab’s Industrial Area base. Per Writing Africa’s recap of the day, th
Part One When their parents died within six months of each other, twenty-year-old Gift inherited a six-roomed-house on Zvimba Street in Glen Norah, and three younger brothers who looked to him for their daily bread. They let out four rooms to tenants, but the income melted into mealie meal, bread an
Zambia’s peaceful polling day has given way to a far more precarious test: a nationwide suspension of vote counting, competing victory claims and allegations of electoral interference. The emerging crisis exposes the danger of an information vacuum—and whether Zambia’s institutions can prevent elect
Restoring Utu to Higher Education: A Sovereign Endowment Blueprint to Abolish Kenya’s Student Debt Trap. The post Education is neither a commercial venture nor a credit facility but a basic need and a public good appeared first on This is Africa.
Writing Our Legacy has opened applications for a special edition of its Covert Talent Development Programme, built around the seventh issue of Covert Literary Magazine themed “Ghana.” Produced in partnership with the Writers Project of Ghana and supported by the British Council’s Beyond Literature B
Mo Abudu, executive producer and casting director on The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, has announced that the film has been officially selected for the Centrepiece programme of the 51st Toronto International Film Festival, where it will have its world premiere. In a video message sharing the ne
The modern autocrat doesn't need a military coup; they just rewrite the law. From Kenya to Indonesia, leaders are legally dismantling democracies by centralizing wealth, weaponizing security, and absorbing political opposition. The post The third global wave of autocratization One playbook, two inst
My mother said education is the key. Did she lie? Or was she lied to by those who held the lock and sipped tea? Because all I see doesn’t match what she dreamed. I strive night and day to be worthy of her sacrifice, Her pride, her strength. Running on a story that I’d […]