The wait is finally over, and the internet is losing its mind. Chimeka Garricks, author of the beloved novel Tomorrow Died Yesterday and the acclaimed story collection A Broken People’s Playlist, is returning with a new novel, A Prayer for Wolves. Masobe Books broke the news on Instagram with three
Callaloo, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora, has released a new issue, Volume 44, Number 3, Summer 2026, bringing together fiction, poetry, visual art, criticism, interviews, and scholarship on Black history, memory, culture, and survival. At the heart of th
Nigeria is 66 today. Sixty-six years ago, the country gained independence and began its life as an independent nation. In the years since, Nigeria has lived through civil war, military rule, political upheaval, economic crises, COVID-19, the End of SARs protest, the ongoing Japa wave and so many mor
Al Jazeera has released a feature documenting two decades of Cassava Republic Press, the Nigerian publishing house that’s spent 20 years arguing against one of the industry’s most persistent assumptions: that African books don’t sell. Cassava shared the feature on Instagram, writing that the press “
Ethiopian American writer Maaza Mengiste is a recipient of the 2026 MacArthur Fellowship, one of the literary world’s most significant unrestricted awards. Mengiste is among 20 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists selected for this year’s fellowship and will receive $800,000, paid in quarterly
The Book Buzz Foundation is bringing a new literary festival to the capital this October. The Abuja Festival of Literature & Ideas (AFLI) runs October 9–10, 2026, at The Nordic, Plot 795, off Shehu Yar’adua Way, Cadastral Zone B04, Jabi, Abuja, co-funded by the European Union and backed by a roster
Élékéré Press has announced the seven writers shortlisted for the inaugural Élékéré Short Story Prize, selected from more than 200 submissions from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, the United States, Zimbabwe, and beyond. Launched in 2026, the prize celebrates unpublished short fiction by Black writers across
Editors Nduka Otiono and Funmi Gaji are accepting submissions for Stories They Forgot to Tell: An Anthology of Nigerian Short Stories, a new collection due out in 2027 from Narrative Landscape Press in Lagos. Submissions close December 15, 2026. The anthology sets out to capture the current moment o
With the A Different World reboot bringing us back to the halls of Hillman College, it’s hard not to feel a little nostalgic for the beloved HBCU campus, its friendships, romances, love triangles, academic stress and all the beautiful messiness of being young and figuring things out. If you’re missi
Human rights lawyer Nani Jansen Reventlow has released a fresh run of tour dates for Radical Justice: Building the World We Need, her debut book published by Pluto Books, carrying the tour across four countries through the end of November. Radical Justice makes the case that ordinary people don’t ne