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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. . .…

Poetry Has All My Pain

“Poetry Has All My Pain” and “Love Through the Eyes of a Village Boy” Review: Vic’Adex Twin Collection Finds Tension in Parental Absence and Love

Poetry Has All My Pain and Love Through the Eyes of a Village Boy straddles the…

Oontz

The Rise of Kenyan Oontz Music and Culture

Kenyan Oontz culture has become the clearest evidence that Kenyan electronic music no longer adjusts…

AFCON

AFCON 2025: How Drama and Passion Shaped the Tournament

Whatever one’s view of this edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, it cannot and…

Senegal

Senegal Claims 2025 AFCON Title After Dramatic 1-0 Victory Over Morocco

The title-deciding match, played under intense tension, was briefly overshadowed by chaos late in regulation…

Behind The Scenes

“Behind The Scenes” and the Business of Being Funke Akindele

Until the economics of cinema-oriented Nollywood change, films like Behind The Scenes will continue to…

10 Classic African Songs Turning 10 in 2026

10 Classic African Songs Turning 10 in 2026

Amidst the torrent of song releases that birthed viral hits, the continent produced timeless records…