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Feminist Writer and Icon Nawal El Saadawi Passes Away at Age 89

by Angeline Peterson

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Features April 09, 2021

Bernardine Evaristo’s First Book After Winning The Booker is About Never Giving Up

by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

News April 08, 2021

Abi Ishola-Ayodeji’s Debut Novel Patience is a Subtle Thief Forthcoming from HarperVia

by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

News• Opportunities April 07, 2021

Submit to the 2021 African Writers Awards | Prize: $100

by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

News April 07, 2021

Sulaiman Addonia Signs with Canongate to Publish Third Novel, The Seers

by Angeline Peterson

Book Reviews April 06, 2021

Mohamedou Ould Slahi Centers Animal Life and Worlds in his Debut Novel The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga

by Ainehi Edoro

News April 06, 2021

Yomi Ṣode’s Debut Poetry Collection Manorism Acquired by Penguin Press

by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

News• Opportunities April 06, 2021

Digital Residency for QTIPOC and/or Disabled Playwrights of African Descent

by Angeline Peterson

Opportunities April 05, 2021

The Bada Murya Fellowship for Writers from Northern Nigeria is Open for Applications

by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

NEWS

Lifestyle• News April 05, 2021

Petina Gappah Stanning Tsitsi Dangarembga is Everything

by Angeline Peterson

News April 05, 2021

Pick of the Week: Bakwa 10

by Angeline Peterson

News April 02, 2021

Egyptian Poet Salma El-Wardany Signs Six-Figure Deal for Her Debut Novel, The Way We Were

by Angeline Peterson

News April 02, 2021

Eight Poets Shortlisted For the 2021 Brunel International African Poetry Prize

by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

News April 01, 2021

Everything We Know About Namwali Serpell’s Forthcoming Novel, The Furrows

by Angeline Peterson

STORIES & POEMS

Stories and Poems March 09, 2021

Isolation | Poetry | Nangkazah Yusuf

by Nangkazah Yusuf

Stories and Poems March 02, 2021

Dissociation Or How I React When My Friends Say I Have Ghosted Them Again | Poetry | Chibueze O. Obunadike

by Chibueze O. Obunadike

Stories and Poems February 26, 2021

Painting Alone | Poetry | Vera Ene Oko

by Vera Ene Oko

Stories and Poems February 23, 2021

Separation and silence | Poetry | Nwafor Chiedozie Emmanuel

by Nwafor Chiedozie Emmanuel

Stories and Poems February 19, 2021

A Desolate House | Poetry| Pèlúmi Sàlàkó

by Pèlúmi Sàlàkó