Following the success of its first season, Showmax Original action thriller, Wura is back for a second season and premieres on Monday, 4 December 2023,…
Submissions are now open to the 2024 UJ Prize for South African Writing. If you are a publisher who published South African books in 2023,…
Ugandan author Goretti Kyomuhendo just republished her 20-year-old novel Whispers from Vera on August 11, 2023. Published by African Writers Trust, the reissue seeks to share…
Registration is now open for the very first International Black Speculative Writing Festival! This three-day in-person festival celebrates Black British and international speculative writers. It…
An exciting annual award will now celebrate the important work done by African publishers. The CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa was recently launched in…
Somali journalist and former refugee Abdullahi Mire has won the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), the UN Refugee…
We have some very exciting news to share! This year, our 100 Notable African Books of 2023 list was well-received and some bookstores decided to…
Two African writers are among the the 2023 RSL Literature Matters Awards, just announced yesterday by the Royal Society of Literature (RSL). Kenyan writer Wanja…
South African chef and author Fatima Sydow has passed on at the age of 50. She died on December 19 after a long and…
