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Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo, a Senegalese writing duo, have won the prestigious Caine Prize for African writing for t Read more »
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In African cultures, the names given to children play an important role because they are often laden with meaning. Rec Read more »
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Award-winning writer Ayobami Adebayo took the literary world by storm with her debut novel Read more »
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NoViolet Bulawayo says while Zimbabwe inspired her latest book, Glory, she sees it as "my humble contribution" to the collective struggles of "resistance movements across the world ... Read more »
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The paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, renowned for uncovering evidence that humanity's ancestors evolved in Africa has died at the age of 77, President Uhuru Kenyatta has ... Read more »
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South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction for his novel The Promise. This was the third time Galgut ... Read more »
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Rwandan dissidents have died under mysterious circumstances inside and outside the country with alarming frequency in recent years. On September 14, Revocat Karemangingo, Read more »
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The Swedish Academy, which chooses the winners, said it had chosen Tanzania's Abdulrazak Gurnah "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism ... Read more »
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French-Senegalese writer, David Diop, has been awarded this year's prestigious International Booker Prize for his debut novel At Night All Blood Is Black. The book ... Read more »
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Writers, politicians, and feminists united to pay tribute to pioneering Egyptian activist Nawal El Saadawi following her death aged 89. They vowed that her work would live on ... Read more »
