The Nervous Conditions author joins Wole Soyinka and Abdulrazak Gurnah among Africa’s most celebrated literary icons.

The second edition of the Sharjah African Literature Festival, organised by the Sharjah Book Authority under the theme The African Way, ...

SHARJAH, 5th January, 2026 (WAM) -- The Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) has announced the guest list for the second edition of the Sharjah Festival of African Literature (SFAL 2026), to be held from 14 ...

As the 57th Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) continues to serve as a cultural crossroads for the Global South, the ...

Taiye Selasi in an interview with the Ake festival team speaks about her debut novel 'Ghana Must Go' , writing as a form of meditation and the future of African literature. Award-winning author of ...

Almost, all of Nigeria's Award winning authors were born or migrated Abroad. But interestingly, their writings always tilt towards their roots. Chimamanda is perhaps the most popular contemporary ...

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has honored Mr. Sunday Joseph Ayodabo with the prestigious African Humanities Program (AHP) Fellowship. Ayodabo, a lecturer in the Department of ...

A Calvin faculty member has won a duo of prestigious Kenyan literature awards. Nyambura Mpesha, a professor of Kiswahili at Calvin, has won awards in two categories of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for ...

SHARJAH, 19th January, 2026 (WAM) -- The second edition of the Sharjah Festival of African Literature (SFAL 2026) concluded after enriching African-Arab cultural and literary exchange and welcoming 11 ...

Kalimat Group wrapped up its participation in the second edition of the Sharjah Festival of African Literature with a ...