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Book Feature

Disability, Black Womanhood, and African Spirituality in Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women’s Writing

by Jagravi Dave

Book Feature May 05, 2026

Rwandan Writer Patrick Nzabonimpa Releases Debut Story Collection A Thread of Silent Echoes

by Blessing Uwisike

Book Feature April 30, 2026

Kerry Manzo’s Queer Contiguities Traces How Sex and Gender Have Shaped the Nigerian Literary Tradition

by Blessing Uwisike

Book Feature January 13, 2026

From the Somali Desert to the Masjid: 3 New African Picture Books Celebrating Childhood

by Ainehi Edoro

Book Feature January 12, 2026

When the Freedom Fighter Is Your Mother: We Inherit the Fire by Kagiso Lesego Molope

by Ainehi Edoro

Book Feature December 10, 2025

Paul Akpomuje’s “Black Passport” Chronicles Nigerian Migration in Canada

by Blessing Uwisike

Book Feature December 02, 2025

COVER REVEAL | Crimson in Quietus by Eugen Bacon

by Blessing Uwisike

Book Feature November 18, 2025

Bento Baloi’s Novel Beneath the Scar now Available in English, Translated by Sandra Tamele

by Blessing Uwisike

Book Feature November 07, 2025

Kopano Matlwa Returns with Bosadi, A Searing Novel of Domestic Violence and Sisterhood

by Blessing Uwisike