The Wisconsin Book Festival returns to Madison for its 25th anniversary edition, running October 15–18 across venues ...

Cave Canem Foundation will host a Legacy Conversation with South African Poet Laureate Mongane Wally Serote on October 8, ...

Imbolo Mbue will launch her new novel, Every Story Is a Love Story, at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn on October 7, 2026, in conversation with National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson. The ...

Professor Alain Mabanckou and Professor Ainehi Edoro will headline the African Literature Association 2026 annual conference. The event themed New Horizons in African Literatures and Film: Cityscapes, ...

We’re officially in the last quarter of the year, and hopefully, the reading is still going. Maybe you’re still making your way through the TBR list you made in January, or perhaps you’ve abandoned it ...

Zimbabwean poet Chioniso Tsikisayi has published her debut collection, Blood Joy, through Carnelian Heart Publishing, ...

Nigerian poet Rasaq Malik Gbolahan is a finalist for the 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize, shortlisted for his poem ...

Nigeria is 66 today. Sixty-six years ago, the country gained independence and began its life as an independent nation. In the years since, Nigeria has lived through civil war, military rule, political ...

Ethiopian American writer Maaza Mengiste is a recipient of the 2026 MacArthur Fellowship, one of the literary world’s most ...

The wait is finally over, and the internet is losing its mind. Chimeka Garricks, author of the beloved novel Tomorrow Died ...

Al Jazeera has released a feature documenting two decades of Cassava Republic Press, the Nigerian publishing house that's ...

Kelechi Okafor has made her young adult debut with Are You Still Watching?, a speculative thriller from Scholastic that takes ...