As Africa bears the brunt of worsening climate change, writers and novelists on the continent are turning to penning "climate fiction" - or "cli-fi" - which seeks to challenge Western narratives while ...

Get ready, readers, because there's a week-long reading event ready to kick off your December. Promoted by publishers and teachers, #ReadAfricaWeek highlights authors from that continent. Don't worry ...

A new literary agency aims to expand contemporary African fiction for young people through individual mentoring and global partnerships. Launched earlier this year by two longtime children’s ...

Dynamic weapons of soft power, the cultural and creative industries have the wind in their sails on the African continent. Even politicians and business leaders are sitting up and taking notice, as it ...

Anyone familiar with African literature is likely to have read one of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels or NoViolet Bulawayo’s highly praised debut We Need New Names. If you’re looking to delve deeper ...

You may have heard a member of No. 2 Oregon’s (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) secondary made a big play in the Ducks’ 30-24 double overtime win over Penn... To honor Black History Month this year, you might want ...

Nigerian author Wole Soyinka speaks to journalists at the UNESCO headquarters after he became the first author from Africa to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paris, 1986 (AP photo by Laurent ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Evelyn Mousigian/TMD. I didn’t start reading fiction until later in my life. Correction: I did not ...

A feature of the Macondo Literary Festival, which was founded by journalist Anja Bengelstorff and award-winning Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, has been to invite authors from the continent or ...

Because in South Africa we have vast skies, stark realities and a lot of laughter.

Books are a great way to learn more about cultures, identities, and much more. That’s why we want to help you add a few more to your summer reading list. For Africa Day this year, we asked our ONE ...

Renowned Kenyan author and gay rights activist Binyavanga Wainaina has died, a friend with direct knowledge told CNN. He was 48. Wainaina died in a Nairobi hospital on Tuesday night following a short ...