The World Cup is selling football as inclusive and diverse. It’s not so for the African players migrating to play overseas. The post World Cup 2026: the real story of the resilient African migrants reshaping global football appeared first on This is Africa.
Osvalde Lewat is not new to acclaim, but she is new to English-language readers, and that is about to change. The Aquatics, Lewat’s debut novel, translated by Maren Baudet-Lackner and published by Coffee House Press in the US and Cassava Republic in 2026, arrives carrying the weight of three major p
They say wherever the oká sits, its meal finds its way to his doorstep. This day, Ògún, let my steps not lead me to the threshold of that which longs for my blood. For the road has a hungry mouth. I’m still in the dawn of my green unravelling life. I’m just starting out, an […]
Nigerian singer and songwriter Bella Alubo has been quietly building a second lane as a designer
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Nigerian-American writer Chinelo Okparanta has announced her third novel, This Impossible Life, to be published by Mariner Books, an imprint of Harper Collins, on November 10, 2026. The announcement, made on Instagram, was as intimate as her fiction. “Although it’s fiction, this book draws from some
A new national poetry competition has arrived in Nigeria, and it comes with serious institutional weight behind it. The Pius Oleghe Poetry and Literary Awards (POPALS), named in honour of Pius Enahoro Oleghe, a distinguished Nigerian educator who devoted more than four decades of his life to educati
Professor Okey Ndibe, celebrated Nigerian novelist and academic, was detained for over three hours by the Department of State Services at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos earlier this month. In a Facebook post following his release, Ndibe wrote: “I am fine and in excellent spirits. I
Zegeningen, the Dutch translation of Blessings, the debut novel by Nigerian writer and former Brittle Paper staff writer Chukwuebuka Ibeh, has been nominated for the Beste Boek voor Jongeren 2026, the Netherlands’ annual prize for the best book for readers between the ages of fifteen and eighteen. T
Eight cities, ten days, three regions, one continental refusal. Africa Bitcoin Day 2026 happened as promised, against a backdrop that almost nobody saw coming: forty million Kenyans woke up with Lightning addresses they did not know they had. Here is what May built, and where June takes it next. The