Bookcraft Africa hosted a public celebration of Professor Niyi Osundare’s new essay collection, Truth Is Trouble: New and Selected Essays, Speeches, Tributes, Farewells, and Five Pivotal Interviews, drawing literary figures and readers for an evening of conversation, audience questions, and book sig
Charles “Charly Boy” Oputa, the veteran entertainer, activist, and self-styled “Area Fada” of Nigerian pop culture, formally presented his new memoir, 999: The Memoir of Charly Boy, to the public on July 31 in Lagos. The event, held at the Alliance Française de Lagos/Mike Adenuga Centre in Ikoyi, dr
The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has announced the nine writers selected for the second edition of its Ken Saro-Wiwa International Writers’ Residency, following a debut cohort in 2025 and the subsequent launch of a private creative residency track. The programme will run for six weeks, from
Tomilola Coco Adeyemo has carved a space for herself in the literary space since her publishing deal with Masobe Books in 2024. The deal crowned her Mariah Carey of Nigerian literature, proven through her two successful Christmas-themed releases: A Very Gidi Christmas and A Nollywood Christmas. For
The Open Book Festival, Cape Town’s flagship literary gathering, will hold its main event from September 4–6, 2026, at the HCC: Homecoming Centre (the venue formerly known as The Fugard Theatre). The festival has been a fixture of the city’s literary calendar since 2011, and this year’s edition cont
Crowne Books, the Black woman-owned independent press behind the acclaimed 2020 anthology Dominion, has opened submissions for its long-awaited sequel, Dominion II: Speculative Stories of Black Resistance from Africa and the African Diaspora. The anthology is edited by the award-winning duo Olivia N
Global finance treats sovereign debt as a moral absolute, but a landmark Kenyan lawsuit is challenging this consensus. Rooted in Utu—prioritizing human survival over balance sheets—this legal battle exposes the "inverted ledger" of systemic extraction, threatening to structurally upend the internati
Scholastique Mukasonga, the Rwandan writer whose work has spent two decades bearing witness to the genocide against the Tutsi, is returning this November with a book that marks a departure. Murmurs from the Hills: Rwandan Tales, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti, arrives from Archipelago
Élékéré Press, a new independent boutique publisher based in Abuja, has introduced the Élékéré Prize for Fiction, a $500 award for outstanding short stories by Black writers. The inaugural edition centers on the theme “Inheritance,” inviting submissions that wrestle with the things inherited, whethe
A Third Space, working alongside CHEVS, is now accepting submissions for Mismemories: Contemporary Writing from Queer West-African Voices, a forthcoming anthology developed under the organization’s Long Story Project. The call is open to LGBTQIA+ writers producing fiction and nonfiction that engage