April 12
South Africa: Student Financial Aid Scheme Board Dissolved - South African News Briefs - April 12, 2024
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June 08, 2023
South Africa: Thabo Bester Case - Magudumana Seeks to Appeal 'Deportation' Ruling - South African News Briefs - June 8, 2023
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May 23, 2023
South Africa: 'Unauthorised' Biography of ActionSA Party Leader Herman Mashaba Pulled Off Market - South African News Briefs - May 23, 2023
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March 20, 2023
Africa: Reflecting on the Last 20 Years - New Book Offers Insight into the AU's Performance
The African continent's main political body has dealt with a myriad of issues since its inception, including a resurgence of coups, conflict, Ebola and Covid-19… Read more »
September 10, 2022
Africa: Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo Shortlisted for Top Literary Prize
The celebrated Zimbabwean novelist, NoViolet Bulawayo, has been short-listed for one of the world's most prestigious literary awards for her latest work, Glory. Read more »
February 24, 2022
Africa: Peeling Back the Layers of African Women's Sex Lives!
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June 15, 2020
Africa: Knowing Our Past to Inform a Better Future
With abundant resources, a burgeoning youth population, and growing attractiveness to industry and investors, Africa is positioned to undergo dynamic change in the decades ahead. Read more »
April 08, 2020
Africa: Why Reading Stories to Your Children Will Help During Times of Crisis
During the lockdown period of the COVID19, many South African parents and caregivers have been left feeling worried and confused. The nationally imposed lockdown means that… Read more »
March 27, 2019
Africa: Okorafor, Kahiu to Work on Movie Based on U.S. Author Octavia Butler's Book
African women are making serious waves in Hollywood, and we are here for it... Read more »
November 23, 2018
South Africa: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Grace Abantu Book Festival in Soweto
The annual Abantu Book Festival had a successful run in 2017 - and to celebrate Africa's rich and diverse literature, it was only befitting to get one of Africa's respected… Read more »
July 30, 2018
South Africa: Great-Grandchildren Honour Mandela With a Children's Book
Little Charmers have hosted their 5th Annual Charity Show where former president Nelson Mandela's daughter Zindzi's children Zazi (8) and Ziwelene (6) launched the Mandela family's… Read more »
April 23, 2018
Africa: African Writers Whose Work You Should Be Reading
How are you celebrating World Book Day? Read more »
October 11, 2017
South Africa: Thabo Mbeki On the Pope, the Bible, Mandela and His Successors
The former President of South Africa reflects on a memoir by Thabo Makgoba, head of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa, on his life and his ministry to Nelson Mandela in the… Read more »
September 08, 2017
Africa: The Diplomatic Thriller Comes to Nigeria
A diplomatic thriller that is part spy novel, part crime drama, with a hint of Nollywood, The Shadow List by Todd Moss is a gripping read. It is the fourth adventure featuring Judd… Read more »
October 11, 2016
Africa: 22000 CODESRIA books to African institutions of higher education
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) has donated 21,771 books to seven African institutions of higher education and research and five… Read more »
April 12, 2016
Zimbabwe: Prominent Writer Kanengoni Dies - Report
Veteran writer, journalist and freedom fighter Alexander Kanengoni has reportedly died. Read more »
September 27, 2014
Tanzania: Local Books Open Worlds for City Kids
Before leaving Tanzania - where she worked on an education project - Jennifer Brookland, a senior writer and editor for Creative Associates International, visited a bookshop in the… Read more »
July 12, 2013
Ghana: Bringing African Voices to Children's Literature
The market for children's books in Africa is dominated by literature from outside the continent, much of which does not relate to the realities of African readers. This has… Read more »
June 08, 2013
Africa: Pulling Nigeria and Africa Towards Prosperity and Power - Moghalu
In his latest book, Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy's 'Last Frontier' Can Prosper and Matter, Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu declines to echo the breathless prose of… Read more »
July 12, 2012
South Africa: African Freedom and Shakespeare's World
As the focus of the world turns to London for the 2012 Olympic Games, one of the most remarkable stories of South Africa's freedom… Read more »
August 19, 2011
South Africa: Cape Town's 'Spiritual Genocide'
Excerpts from "The Truth is on the Walls," the story of Naz Gool Ebrahim a civil rights activist, from District Six, Cape Town, who struggled against the forced removal of her… Read more »
November 25, 2009
Rwanda: Kagame's Human Rights Record Faces Scrutiny
As Rwanda applies this week to join the Commonwealth, the international grouping dominated by ex-British colonies, both its membership application and a number of recent books on… Read more »
August 04, 2009
Africa: Change Ways of Giving Aid, Says Economist
Paul Collier is the author of "The Bottom Billion," an award-winning book that shines a light on some 50 failing states in the world and the billion people who live in them. He… Read more »
June 16, 2009
Zimbabwe: Finding White Rhodesia in the American West
The writer Alexandra Fuller is best known in southern Africa for two books which portray with vivid and – for one who grew up in the same milieu – discomforting… Read more »
April 15, 2009
Africa: Soyinka Attacks Political Leaders
Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has launched a new attack on Africa's political leaders, this time singling out heads of state who retain their grip on power by entering into… Read more »