The Harlem Writer's Guild will honor Dr. Brenda Greene, celebrating her lifelong dedication to advancing Black literature and ...
"The Orange Blossom" was released Thursday, and author Jebeh Edmunds shared how her own Liberian heritage influenced the ...
Kenya’s prolific writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his son Mukoma wa Ngugi are among the literary icons to attend the UK’s largest festival of African Literature, that has been organised by The British ...
A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region. By Abdi Latif Dahir Abdi Latif Dahir reported ...
FORMER Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has urged African writers to embrace indigenous languages in order to reclaim their history and cultural identity. Mohammed, who is also the ...
For two decades, SALA has promoted inclusivity, amplified diverse voices, and upheld literature as a living expression of heritage and identity.
Split by a road but stretching across 47-acres is the campus of the Penn Center, founded in 1862 as the Penn School on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina as a school for the newly emancipated on the ...
Dynamic weapons of soft power, the cultural and creative industries have the wind in their sails on the African continent. Even politicians and business leaders are sitting up and taking notice, as it ...
What is the state of African literature given the number of African writers-poets, novelists, playwrights, more, who have moved to the Western world overtime? This issue of the mixture of African ...
Three African screenwriters will pitch projects spanning a range of genres at the 16th Series Mania in Lille, France. The line-up includes South Africa's Mlilo Mpondo, the creator of the comedy drama ...
For decades, there was one path to becoming a successful African writer: Getting a book deal in the publishing meccas of New York, London or Paris. But a radical shift is underway, transforming the ...