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Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Sharjah Festival of African Literature

Tsitsi Dangarembga’s body of work has consistently explored themes of postcolonial identity, gender, and the…

Qwani
Kwani? To Qwani: The Layers of 21st Century Literary Time in Kenya

Kenyan letters have travelled from the raptures of a Kwani? generation into a documentation age…

African films
25 African Films Turning 10 in 2026

Revisiting these 25 African films from 2016, now turning ten in 2026, offers a snapshot…

Gemspread
Literary Merit or Not: Nigerian Publishing and Gemspread’s Attempt

Since the cost of book printing contributes more to the retail price of books, one…

Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor and Harmonia Rosales Earn 2026 NAACP Image Award Fiction Nominations

Nnedi Okorafor’s (2025) and Harmonia Rosales’ Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic (2025) both appear on…

2026 Oscars: Tunisia’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab” Nominated for Best International Feature Film

Seven African countries submitted films for the category, but only Tunisia reached the final nominations. …

Colours of Fire
“Colours of Fire” and the Anxiety of Technical Progress

Colours of Fire is crowded with ideas: tribalism, fear-mongering, inherited violence, love as disruption, myth…

Berlinale
Four African Features, Including Films by Leyla Bouzid, Alain Gomis, and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Selected for 2026 Berlinale Competition and Perspectives

The selection includes four African films set to have their world premieres across these sections,…

Olufunke Grace Bankole
Nigerian-American Writer, Olufunke Grace Bankole, Wins 2025 John C. Zacharis First Book Award

Olufunke Grace Bankole will officially receive the prize administered by Ploughshares, the literary journal based…

The Naming
Of Cities and Ancestors: A Review of “The Naming” and “African Urban Echoes”

[In The Naming,] Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto wants to say something of his Igbo background. . .…