Gulf Today

SFAL 2026 to host Africa’s prominent literary voices

The Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) has announced the guest list for the second edition of the Sharjah Festival of African ...
The Nation Newspaper

African scholars unite for Aidoo’s literary works

The creative genius of Africa’s first renowned female dramatist to be published, Ama Ata Aidoo, took centre-stage at the just-concluded Toyin Falola Interview Series, where leading authors, dramatists ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

African American literature provides a crucial counter-narrative to our history

This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, in this reflective season, we find ourselves at a crossroads that would be ...
Capital FM

African cultural greats we lost in 2025: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the revolution that changed literature

The death of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in May 2025 closes a defining chapter in African literature. We revisit his role in the African literary revolution, decolonisation of language, exile, and global legacy ...
EURweb

Kole Omotoso – Exit of An African Whom the Literary World Mourns

Kole Omotoso on the cover of West Africa magazine designed by TAYO Fatunla I knew him well. He came to my mind when I was recently in South Africa, (I didn’t try enough to locate him) wondering how he ...
Badger Herald

‘250 Years of Phillis Wheatley’: Where African-American literary history began

In 1773, London’s presses produced a small book with a portrait of a young woman, among many other similar copies. The woman wore a respectable bonnet across her forehead, lost deep in thought while ...
The Conversation

African Literature in the Digital Age: new book traces the role of the internet, queers and class

Shola Adenekan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The Conversation

South African poetry has a new digital archive – what’s behind the project

Tinashe Mushakavanhu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
The National on MSN

Sharjah Festival of African Literature returns with continent’s leading authors and poets

Lemn Sissay, the British-Ethiopian poet, writer and playwright, widely regarded as a leading contemporary voice in spoken ...
Florida Today

Zora Neale Hurston: Literary work posthumously earned her title 'Genius of the South'

Hurston's family settled in Eatonville in 1894 when she was 3. Hurston's most popular novel was “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” written in 1937. Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, author of "The ...
Emirates News Agency on MSN

SFAL 2026 to host Africa’s top literary voices in Sharjah

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 to 18 January. The festival brings ...