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100 Notable African Books of 2025
A Calamity of Noble Houses
Fiction
January 14, 2025 | 384 pages
Europa Editions
A finalist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Miled’s saga reconstructs a 1930s scandal through eleven different narrators, tracing a young wife's accused affair against the backdrop of Tunisian union activism.
A Nollywood Christmas
Fiction - Romance
November 18, 2025 | 300 pages
Masobe Books
Tomilola Coco Adeyemo takes readers behind the scenes of a chaotic film production in Ibadan, where a producer's attraction to the leading man, could derail both the film and her carefully held resolve.
A Season of Light
Fiction-Novel
February 4, 2025 | 304 pages
Algonquin Books
276 schoolgirls are abducted in Nigeria, sending Florida-based lawyer reeling from survivor's guilt and his own trauma from the Nigerian Civil War.
A Song of Legends Lost
Fiction-Novel
April 10, 2025 | 640 pages
Orbit
Ayinde is a major new voice in high fantasy. Her debut follows a rebellious young woman drawn into the invocation of dangerous powers and high-stakes warfare. The rich world building is a gift for fans of African fantasy.
Adia Kelbara and the High Queen’s Tomb
Fiction - Middle Grade
June 3, 2025 | 347 pages
Storytide
Hendrix's Afrofantasy trilogy continues with 12-year-old Adia entering the Academy of Shamans. When a mysterious "sleeping sickness" begins siphoning energy from the living to resurrect the dead, Adia must journey to an ancient tomb to find a cure.
Africa in the World’s Time
Nonfiction - Scholarly
November 24, 2025 | 120 pages
Seagull Books
Renowned Senegalese historian Mamadou Diouf dismantles Eurocentric timelines to reclaim Africa’s rightful place at the center of global thought.
African Folktales for the Young at Heart
Fiction - Children's Book
November 6, 2025 | 94 pages
Iskanchi Press
The rich oral traditions of Northern Nigeria come to life in this collection of twenty timeless Hausa tales. Ibrahim’s retellings sparkle with wit and wisdom.
African Pharmakon
Nonfiction - Scholarly
December 30, 2025 | 308 pages
Chicago University Press
A groundbreaking work that challenges the idea that Europeans introduced psychiatry to Africa and erased local healing traditions. Yale professor Nana Osei Quarshie shows how colonial asylums absorbed and adapted existing practices.
African Stories
Fiction - Anthology
February 18, 2025 | 560 pages
Everyman's Library
Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri curates African short fiction in this gorgeous Everyman’s Library edition. It features 36 stories by giants like Achebe, Salih, Tutuola, and Adichie alongside Nobel laureates.
African Urban Echoes: A Poetry Anthology
Poetry - Anthology
January 15, 2025 | 158 pages
Griots Lounge Publishing
This ambitious poetry anthology moves beyond broad continental identities to capture the specific pulse of the African city, from Lagos to Tunis.
Awakened
Fiction-Novel
June 26, 2025 | 272 pages
Trapeze Books
A near-future debut about a London journalist investigating the disappearance of Black children, a search that draws her into Benin and a forbidden spiritual ritual.
BackHomeAbroad and Other Stories
Fiction - Short Stories
October 28, 2025 | 244 pages
Narrative Landscape
One of Sierra Leone’s foremost writers, Pede Hollist returns with a collection of fifteen stories. Among them is a reimagining of Things Fall Apart, where Achebe’s characters are granted an afterlife beyond the novel’s limits.
Bakandamiya: An Elegy
Poetry
December 1, 2025 | 114 pages
University of Nebraska Press
Few writers bring oral poetic tradition into modern literary space without flattening its ritual and communal roots, and Dzukogi does so here with a work that spans five hundred years of transformation in the history of Hausaland.
Before We Hit the Ground
Fiction-Novel
February 27, 2025 | 364 pages
The Borough Press
Fiamanya’s debut moves between Accra, Glasgow, and London as it traces an intimate portrait of a family grappling with the unexpected death of their son, Elom.
Beneath The Scar
Fiction
June 28, 2025 | 442 pages
Editora Trinta Zero Nove
Baloi examines a dark chapter of Mozambican history: the "Operation Production" reeducation camps. The novel follows Bernardo, a man unjustly labeled "unproductive" and torn from his pregnant lover.
Black Time: Essays on the Invisible
Nonfiction - Essays
March 28, 2025 | 100 pages
Wetlands Books
In this brilliant essay, Sudanese author Fatin Abbas sees the city of Venice through the eyes of an Afro-descendant writer. Translated in English from Italian, it engages the concept of time and the invisible forces informing our global future.
Blessings and Disasters
Nonfiction - Memoir
August 5, 2025 | 272 pages
Henry Holt and Co.
As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants in Montgomery, Alabama Okeowo investigates the state’s sins and splendor, from the Confederacy to Amazon warehouses, to examine the extreme results of the American experiment.
Blood’s Inner Rhyme
Nonfiction - Memoir
May 27, 2025 | 250 pages
Penguin Random House South Africa
In her most personal work yet, Antjie Krog, one of South Africa's leading literary voices, returns to the Free State and to the complex bond between herself and her mother, the writer Dot Serfontein.
Bosadi
Fiction
October 1, 2025 | 128 pages
Jacana Media
In Bosadi, Matlwa returns with the social focus that has defined her writing since Coconut. Set against a deteriorating marriage, the novel centers the fragile bond between a South African woman and her Zimbabwean domestic worker.
Can Feminism Be African?
Nonfiction - Scholarly
February 13, 2025 | 247 pages
William Collins
Feminism powerhouse Minna Salami makes a case for an African feminist political philosophy. This timely book is also simply a rousing manifesto on feminist selfhood and collective life built on African knowledge systems.
Cape Fever
Fiction-Novel
December 9, 2025 | 240 pages
Simon and Schuster
Davids is an award-winning South African writer working across genres, examining the pressures of history on private lives. Cape Fever extends this interest into a gothic psychological thriller about class and colonial inheritance.
Chop Chop
Cookbook
March 18, 2025 | 352 pages
Artisan
One hundred recipes, alongside notes on history and ingredients and mouth-watering photographs. Chop Chop is a beautiful, accessible tribute to Nigeria's world-class cuisine.
Chronicles of Ori
Nonfiction
October 14, 2025 | 304 pages
W. W. Norton & Company
Acclaimed fine artist Harmonia Rosales retells African myths in this sweeping epic illustrated with her own spectacular paintings.
Circumtrauma
Poetry
September 16, 2025 | 88 pages
Coach House Books
Verissimo holds nothing back in this poetry collection that confronts the "official silence" surrounding the Nigeria-Biafra War.
Creature of Air and Still Water
Fiction
March 8, 2025 | 299 pages
Flexible Press
Malaika Cheney-Coker follows in the footsteps of her father, the celebrated Sierra Leonean author, in this haunting debut. A man’s grief over his brother’s death manifests as a physical "creature" within his body, leading him to leave Atlanta for Freetown in search of answers.
Cursed Daughters
Fiction-Novel
November 4, 2025 | 384 pages
Doubleday
Cursed Daughter is the long-awaited follow-up to the global hit My Sister, the Serial Killer, and Braithwaite delivers with a novel already drawing wide recognition. It tells the story of Eniiyi, born on the day of her cousin’s funeral, and branded a "reincarnation" fated for tragedy.
Dealing with the Dead
Fiction-Novel
January 16, 2025 | 224 pages
Serpent's Tail
The foremost chronicler of Congolese life returns with the story of a man who wakes up on top of his own grave. Trapped forever in flared purple trousers, Liwa Ekimakingaï navigates a cemetery of ghosts to solve the riddle of his untimely death.
Death Does Not End at the Sea
Poetry
September 1, 2025 | 114 pages
University of Nebraska Press
A National Book Award Longlisted book. From Paris to Senegal, Adesina’s poems follow figures on spiritual journeys haunted by the Middle Passage and the ghost of James Baldwin.
Death of the Author
Fiction
January 14, 2025 | 448 pages
William Morrow
Acquired in a widely reported million-dollar deal, Death of the Author lives up to the hype. At a personal and professional breaking point, Zelu turns to science fiction and writes a novel that remakes her life and blurs the line between imagined worlds and lived reality.
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Nonfiction - Essays
May 6, 2025 | 224 pages
New Press
Released just a couple of weeks before his death, this collection of essays builds on Ngũgĩ's lifelong fight for linguistic liberation.
Dream Count
Fiction
March 4, 2025 | 416 pages
Knopf
Published the same day it was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Dream Count is Adichie’s first novel in over a decade. It traces the lives of four women as they reckon with the costs of their choices.
Empty Cages
Fiction
May 27, 2025 | 260 pages
Hoopoe
The discovery of an old tin of chocolates opens this Naguib Mahfouz Medal-winning debut. In the novel, a woman retraces fragments of her life, moving through childhood and the slow unmaking of home.
Everything Is Fine Here
Fiction-Novel
April 22, 2025 | 320 pages
House of Anansi Press
Tushabe’s debut is set against Uganda's anti-homosexuality laws. When eighteen-year-old Aine discovers her sister’s secret partner, she is forced to navigate a collision between family loyalty and her mother’s uncompromising faith.
Exiled For My Mouth
Poetry
April 20, 2025 | 144 pages
Independently Published
Written in the heat of forced departure from Uganda, Nyanzi’s words explode with the rage of a woman who refuses to be silenced by patriarchy or state oppression.
Firstborn of the Sun
Fiction-Novel
October 23, 2025 | 583 pages
Penguin Books
Anson’s Yoruba-inspired fantasy debut follows L’ore, born without agbára, a power drawn from the sun. When she releases forbidden magic in a bid to save her friend, the foundations of her world begin to shift.
Futility
Fiction-Novel
October 21, 2025 | 288 pages
Titan Books
From the Bram Stoker Award-winning "Queen of African Horror" comes this story of women who accept a trickster spirit's offer of revenge. It is a blood-soaked, peppersoup tale that proves Onoh is at the absolute top of her game.
Ghana to the World
Nonfiction
March 11, 2025 | 272 pages
Clarkson Potter
Top Chef finalist Eric Adjepong practices sankofa (looking back to move forward) in this recipe storybook. There are stunning photography and personal essays that trace his journey from his mother’s jollof rice to the peanutty glazes of his professional career.
Goldcoast Dilemma
Fiction - Romance
April 29, 2025 | 384 pages
Gallery Books
USA Today bestselling author Nana Malone delivers a high-stakes romance between a Ghanaian American heiress and the man who just might come between everything she’s been raised to protect.
Hafsatu Bebi
Fiction - Romance
May 16, 2025 | 400 pages
Masobe Books
Fatima Bala follows her bestselling Broken with a romance set in Abuja, where Hafsatu, a rising fashion designer, finds her carefully built life undone by secrets and an intense connection with Sadiq, a man with a dark past.
Hands in Clay
Poetry
September 25, 2025 | 104 pages
Serving House Books
Barya’s fifth collection teaches us how to move the between everyday and the spirit world, bringing the ancestral realm in conversation. Hands in Clay is a poetic meditation on otherworldly wisdom.
How Many Ways Can You Say Thank You?
Fiction - Children's Book
September 1, 2025 | 32 pages
Puffin Books (South Africa)
Sara returns in her hot air balloon for another adventure across South Africa, this time learning to express gratitude in all eleven official languages (including sign). A heartwarming lesson in the universal power of a "thank you."
Imprint Africa: Conversations with African Women Publishers
Nonfiction
February 13, 2025 | 230 pages
Modjaji Books
A collection of interviews with 9 African women publishers/literary activists that chronicles the rise of woman-led publishing initiatives across the continent in the twenty-first century.
Indigene
Fiction - Short Stories
August 5, 2025 | 188 pages
Interlink Books
If you’ve ever wondered what became of Enitan from Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come, this collection offers an answer. It features a novella dedicated to Enitan as a practicing law in Lagos in her 60s.
Lonely Crowds
Fiction
July 9, 2025 | 304 pages
Little Brown and Company
Kenyan-born Wambugu stuns with this debut about two young women who trade their bleak New England childhoods for the high-stakes New York City art world.
Love, Lagos, & Other Complications
Fiction - Romance
February 13, 2025 | 204 pages
Narrative Landscape
This unputdownable romance is set in the heat and hustle of Lagos and features a driven product developer and a privileged entrepreneur. Imam's Lagos is a city where love happens amid ambition and everyday negotiation.
Making It Big: Lessons From A Life In Business
Nonfiction - Memoir
August 18, 2025 | 298 pages
Fo Books
With tens of thousands of copies sold within months, Making It Big is a standout publishing success. Femi Otedola traces his rise from early enterprise to becoming one of Africa’s leading business figures.
Midnight in the Morgue and Other Stories
Fiction - Short Stories
February 25, 2025 | 256 pages
Cassava Republic
An anthology of the 2024 Caine Prize finalists. The title story about an undocumented migrant who returns home after years of working in a morgue is a fitting opening to a collection that celebrates the endless imagination of African writers.
Motherhood and Its Ghosts
Fiction | Nonfiction - Memoir
May 13, 2025 | 142 pages
Transit Books
One of the most important voices in contemporary Arabic literature offers a radical new understanding of how we imagine mothers and motherhood.
My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria
Nonfiction - Memoir
January 7, 2025 | 304 pages
Verso
Nearly forty years after her death, Verso releases a new edition of the long out-of-print autobiography of Andrée Blouin, the Central African–born revolutionary who advised leaders such as Patrice Lumumba and Sékou Touré.
Necessary Fiction
Fiction-Novel
July 22, 2025 | 320 pages
Riverhead Books
Osunde is a boundary-pushing writer who has repeatedly insisted on not playing by the rules of narrative convention. After the success of Vagabonds!, they return with this novel that follows a cast of two dozen characters in an exploration of queer life in Lagos.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Nonfiction
February 25, 2025 | 208 pages
Knopf
This is Egyptian-American author Omar El Akkad's "breakup letter" with the West. The book came out of a viral tweet on the bombardment of Gaza and shows the fractures at the heart of Western ideals.
Only Because It’s You
Fiction - Romance
May 6, 2025 | 336 pages
Doubleday
Fisseha follows her acclaimed debut with a witty, contemporary romance take on the "marriage of convenience" trope within the Ethiopian diaspora.
Oromay
Fiction - Crime
February 4, 2025 | 416 pages
Soho Crime
Available in English for the first time, this landmark Amharic political thriller is as famous for its content as it is for the tragic fate of its author, who disappeared shortly after its 1983 publication.
Out of This World and Into the Next: A Physicist’s Guide to Space Exploration
Nonfiction
May 6, 2025 | 368 pages
Pegasus Books
Adriana Marais is the director of the Foundation for Space Development Africa. In this in-depth, hopeful book, she considers the science and ethics of human life beyond Earth.
Owele
Poetry
August 25, 2025 | 84 pages
Uhlanga
Ntuli uses rivers as a guiding image to explore family history and language in Zulu life and landscape. The musical precision of his writing comes, in part, from his deft use of English and isiZulu.
Phases
Poetry
January 28, 2025 | 144 pages
Amistad
Suubi’s debut collection maps the cycles of experience into the phases of the moon. The poems are "love letters" to the healing that binds our bodies to nature and the ancestral.
Ramadan on Rahma Road: A Recipe Storybook
Fiction - Children's Book
February 24, 2025 | 40 pages
Barefoot Books
Two Australia-based Southern African writers team up for this charming recipe storybook for children. As neighbors prepare for an annual potluck iftar, readers are treated to twenty-five globally inspired recipes, from chicken tikka to roti bom.
Reframing Blackness: What’s Black about “History of Art”?
Nonfiction - Scholarly
November 11, 2025 | 176 pages
Merky Books
Art historian and founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt looks at Blackness in art institutions anchored on Western canon.
Return
Fiction
December 1, 2025 | 312 pages
Seagull Books
A giant of Malagasy literature is finally brought to English-speaking audiences. The novel follows a writer named Hira as he wanders through a a surreal book tour while attempting to reconcile his happy childhood with his father’s political torture.
Rootbound
Poetry
June 2, 2025 | 90 pages
Uhlanga
Uhlanga has become a leader in South African poetry publishing through books like Rootbound. Moila’s debut follows a young woman moving between South Africa and South Korea while using plants to reflect on loss and memory.
Salutation Road
Fiction-Novel
June 3, 2025 | 400 pages
Mantle
When a routine London bus ride opens an alternate present in Mogadishu, Sirad is forced to confront the self she might have become. Ibrahim's gorgeous debut rewrites the classic immigrant fiction as a magical realist meditation on fate and belonging.
Secrets of the First School
Fiction-Novel
October 18, 2025 | 392 pages
Tor Books
It’s time to say goodbye to a beloved characters in contemporary African fantasy: Ropa Moyo. Huchu closes the series with one final adventure, drawing on Zimbabwean storytelling traditions to reimagine Edinburgh.
Shamiso
Fiction-Novel
August 28, 2025 | 176 pages
Canongate Books
Chikwava's long-awaited novel follows a young girl from rural Zimbabwe to the streets of Brighton. As Shamiso navigates a stern father and a passion for art, she discovers a new kind of love with the gender-fluid Georgie.
Sleep Phase
Fiction
May 13, 2025 | 240 pages
Two Lines Press
A man released after seven years in prison finds himself a stranger in a transformed Cairo. As the bureaucracy of "freedom" threatens to suffocate him, the boundary between reality and fantasy dissolves.
Slow Poison
Nonfiction - Memoir
October 14, 2025 | 352 pages
Harvard University Press
One of Africa’s most formidable public intellectuals examine the postcolonial fate of his homeland, Uganda.
Somadina
Fiction - Middle Grade
April 15, 2025 | 304 pages
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Award-winning Nigerian-Tamil author Akwaeke Emezi returns with a YA story of twins and terrifying power. When Jayaike vanishes, Somadina ventures into the Sacred Forest to bring him back.
Speaking in Tongues
Nonfiction - Scholarly
May 6, 2025 | 144 pages
Liveright
J. M. Coetzee in conversation with his translator Mariana Dimópulos. Their exchange is a beautiful primer on language and the complexities of translation.
Speaking Our Selves: New Plays by African Women
Anthology
March 5, 2025 | 296 pages
University of Michigan Press
Collection of eight plays by African women writers from across the continent, including Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Mali, Burundi, Benin, Sudan, and Uganda.
Sumanguru: Sorcerer King of Sosso
Fiction - Children's Book
November 27, 2025 | 72 pages
Masobe Books
Young readers are transported to the 13th-century Sosso Empire to meet its feared, iron-masked ruler and the exiled boy Sunjata as he seeks the one weakness that can bring the sorcerer king to his knees.
Sweet Heat
Fiction - Romance
September 2, 2025 | 496 pages
William Morrow
The sequel to the international bestseller Honey & Spice and one of the most anticipated African romance titles of 2025. Babalola’s signature wit shines in this hot and humorous exploration of second chances.
The Bone River
Fiction
Ouida Books
Published by Phoenix, the Nnedi Okorafor–curated imprint at Ouida Books, Albert’s fantasy centers on two formidable women. As a fugitive fleeing a vengeful god and a reluctant heir bound to death cross paths, the laws holding their world together begin to unravel.
The Dissenters
Fiction-Novel
February 4, 2025 | 272 pages
Graywolf Press
A son narrates 70 years of Egypt's history through immersive visions of his mother's life. Rakha delivers a hallucinatory portrait of one of Africa's most consequential nation.
The Dream Hotel
Fiction - Speculative
March 4, 2025 | 336 pages
Pantheon
What if your dreams could land you in prison? Moroccan-American Laila Lalami explores this terrifying possibility in her 7th book, where AI predict future crimes.
The Edge of Water
Fiction-Novel
February 4, 2025 | 272 pages
Tin House Books
A mother allows her daughter to leave Ibadan for New Orleans despite a prophetic warning of danger. The novel follows the fallout of that choice. Bankole's storycraft is unmatched in this tale where faith, migration, and natural disaster collide.
The Finest Thief in the Kingdom
Fiction - Short Stories
August 1, 2023 | 240 pages
Darf Publishers
This long-awaited translation brings Naihoum’s satirical "children's tales" to a wider audience. Naihoum uses a tableau of Sultans, dervishes, and beggars to critique power and culture in Libya.
The Fire Within
Fiction
July 11, 2025 | 288 pages
Dedalus Books
Winner of the Prix Alain Spiess, this book by Mouhtare, the second published Comorian woman prose writer, follows a servant girl drawn into the orbit of a wealthy, enigmatic woman who introduces her to a secret life.
The Fragile Mental Health of Strong Women
Fiction
May 17, 2025 | 232 pages
Jacana Media
Kekana's debut novel deconstructs the "strong Black woman" trope, to show the vulnerabilities beneath societal expectations. A deep, considered look at the intersections of gender and mental health.
The Friendship Bench
Nonfiction
April 22, 2025 | 208 pages
New World Library
When a psychiatrist in Zimbabwe realizes traditional healthcare cannot meet his country's needs, he turns to the nation's grandmothers. An inspiring nonfiction work about trained elders offering empathetic listening to over 400,000 people.
The Hand of Iman
Fiction-Novel
August 12, 2025 | 344 pages
Arachnide Editions
Beninese Assani-Razaki is brilliant in this debut that follows Toumani, a boy sold into labor, and Iman, who is obsessed with escaping to Europe, as their lives collide in a desperate friendship.
The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura
Fiction-Novel
March 4, 2025 | 240 pages
Schaffner Press
The Prix Renaudot-winning veteran returns with this novel about a caregiver in Paris living under an assumed name and her past as a young girl fleeing the brutal Sékou Touré regime.
The Mad
Fiction
July 29, 2025 | 244 pages
Carnelian Heart Publishing
Originally published in Shona as Mapenzi, this milestone of Zimbabwean literature finally receives a fearless English translation.
The Marriage Monitoring Aunties’ Association
Fiction - Romance
July 11, 2025 | 345 pages
One More Chapter
This page-turning romance is led by a 50-year-old heroine, a detail that has won strong praise on Goodreads. It tells the story of Sade Sodipo navigating life and the commentary of aunties determined to see her married.
The Naming
Poetry - Anthology
December 1, 2025 | 102 pages
University of Nebraska Press
Ezenwa-Ohaeto poems are about moving through a postmodern world while staying connected to ancestors, history, and Igbo culture.
The New Carthaginians
Poetry
February 27, 2025 | 112 pages
Penguin Books
Drawing on Basquiat’s "exploded collage" technique, Makoha's poems examine Ugandan history and the 1976 Entebbe crisis. It is a work of intellectual and lyrical power.
The Shepherd’s House
Fiction
August 26, 2025 | 120 pages
Arquipelago Press
This collection came out of a unique collaboration of nine translators. Beja, born in São Tome, writes from the liminal space between two worlds, weaving island heritage with the vanishing way of life of the Lusitanian hills.
The Sisters
Fiction-Novel
June 17, 2025 | 656 pages
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Originally published in Swedish and now a National Book Award nominee, Khemiri’s English-language debut spans three decades and two continents. The novel follows the Mikkola sisters, daughters of a Tunisian mother and a mysterious Swede.
The Smallest Ones
Nonfiction - Memoir
June 1, 2025 | 224 pages
Penguin Random House South Africa
In this devastating nonfiction debut, Popina Khumanda recounts her childhood capture in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo and her eventual flight to South Africa.
The Tiny Things Are Heavier
Fiction-Novel
June 24, 2025 | 388 pages
Bloomsbury Publishing
The story of a Nigerian student navigating graduate school in the U.S. while her brother recovers from a suicide attempt back home. Okonkwo is truly brilliant in this exploration of the weight of familial love.
The Witching Kitchen
Children's Book
September 8, 2025 | 44 pages
Penguin Random House South Africa
A playful picture book about a grandmother and granddaughter who cook by moonlight using a magical family recipe. South African cartoonist Martinus van Tee turns the kitchen into a place of wonder.
The World Was in Our Hands: Voices from the Boko Haram Conflict
Nonfiction - Essays
April 22, 2024
Cassava Republic
Chitra Nagarajan gathers forty-seven testimonies from people living through the Boko Haram conflict, bringing forward voices often missing from public accounts.
Theft
Fiction-Novel
March 28, 2025 | 368 pages
Riverhead Books
In his first novel since receiving the Nobel Prize, Gurnah returns to the Tanzanian coast to a sleepy town being transformed by tourism and technology in the turn of the 21st century.
Three Stories of Forgetting
Fiction
December 9, 2025 | 404 pages
Farrar Straus and Giroux
One of the most important voices in Lusophone literature today, Almeida examines the ghosts of the Portuguese Empire through the eyes of men tormented by remorse and the spoils of war.
Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid
Children's Book
January 31, 2025 | 177 pages
Jacana Media
Together Apart marks a pause in Masola and Guzula’s beloved Imbokodo series, as both authors turn to addressing apartheid and its afterlives. The book tells this history in five languages.
Unseen: Listening to visually impaired South Africans
Nonfiction - Anthology
January 1, 2025 | 240 pages
Modjaji Books
Joanne Bloch and twenty visually impaired South Africans write about living and resisting erasure in everyday life. Published by Modjaji, a press known for championing books that bring forward voices rarely given space.
What God in the Kingdom of Bastards
Poetry
September 9, 2025 | 104 pages
University of Pittsburgh Press
Gyamfi’s collection, centered on the relationship between two brothers, one living, one a ghost, brings together prayers and laments. It is a lyrical exploration of Blackness, faith, and the voices of the dead.
Where Women Meet Boys
Fiction - Short Stories
May 26, 2025 | 164 pages
Masobe Books
The stories in Shyaka’s debut collection are set in Kigali and beyond. They focus on unsettling moments of early adulthood, including strained marriages, sexual curiosity, friendship, and loss.
Who Gave The Order
Nonfiction - Essays
October 2, 2025 | 176 pages
Masobe Books
Conceived and edited by Chibueze Darlington Anuonye, and published in a Masobe–Brittle Paper collaboration, this anthology stands as a literary monument to the October 2020 #EndSARS protests.
Wilderness of Mirrors
Fiction-Novel
September 9, 2025 | 256 pages
Restless Books
Sierra Leonean author Olufemi Terry’s debut explores the waywardness of affluence. Emil abandons medical school to live in Stadmutter, a wealthy, restless city built on colonial past. He is drawn into a corrupting world of desire and privilege.
Winged Witnesses
Poetry
December 1, 2025 | 84 pages
University of Nebraska Press
Chisom Okafor centers on the "atypical body" trying to navigate time and displacement in this collection where poem after poem poses questions about chronic illness and neurodivergence.
Years of Shame
Fiction
January 1, 2025 | 320 pages
Purple Shelves
Patrice Ikebe takes a feared ritual oath that carries a devastating price: the loss of his wealth and children. Obinna Udenwe tells the story with a calm, sure hand, following how one act of pride affects generations to come.
