Tsitsi Dangarembga, the multi-award-winning novelist, playwright, and filmmaker has been announced as the recipient of the PEN Freedom of Expression Award which ... Read more »
Whether it's been light-hearted love stories, heart-wrenching histories, or gritty thrillers, African writers have provided us with some brilliant books in 2020, all of which have ... Read more »
University of Cape Town student Qhawe Bula and his team have developed a unique digital library comprising a series of read-along children's audiobooks written in South Africa's 11 ... Read more »
Three days after Tsitsi Dangarembga was nominated for the Booker Prize longlist on July 28 with her latest novel, This Mournable Body, she was arrested while peacefully protesting ... Read more »
Celebrated author, poet, and actor, David Mungoshi has died after battling ill-health for over five years. He was 71. His book, The Fading Son, won an award at the prestigious ... Read more »
Zimbabweans in the diaspora are having a torrid time with their English names. Many were given "loaded" names by their parents. Meaningful names to a Zimbabwean but something else ... Read more »
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 »
Okojie was announced the winner of the £10,000 award prize at a virtual unveiling on YouTube, for her short story "Grace Jones." In May, a five-writer shortlist was released ... Read more »
Jennifer Davis, stalwart champion of majority rule in South Africa and leader in the anti-apartheid movement in the United States, who died on October 15, is being remembered for ... Read more »
The award-winning novelist has said she is heartbroken as she is writing about her late father in the past tense. James Adichie, an emeritus professor of Statistics and ... Read more »
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