The Sharjah Festival of African Literature (SFAL) will be held from 14th to 18th January at University City in Sharjah, under ...

Anyone familiar with African literature is likely to have read one of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels or NoViolet Bulawayo’s highly praised debut We Need New Names. If you’re looking to delve deeper ...

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 ...

Under the patronage of His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, the ...

Nigerian author Wole Soyinka speaks to journalists at the UNESCO headquarters after he became the first author from Africa to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paris, 1986 (AP photo by Laurent ...

Books are a great way to learn more about cultures, identities, and much more. That’s why we want to help you add a few more to your summer reading list. For Africa Day this year, we asked our ONE ...

A feature of the Macondo Literary Festival, which was founded by journalist Anja Bengelstorff and award-winning Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, has been to invite authors from the continent or ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Evelyn Mousigian/TMD. I didn’t start reading fiction until later in my life. Correction: I did not ...

With Barack Obama neck and neck with Hillary Rodham Clinton after Super Tuesday, the world is a step closer to becoming a different place, says author Alexs Pate, who is certain that one thing about ...

Jedza, the protagonist, is convinced that his life is haunted. First, by the guilt of being accidentally responsible for the death of a childhood friend who was run over by a train. Second, by the ...

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks during the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates on November 10, 2025. [Caroline Chebet, Standard] One of the major accusations ...

When Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Oct. 7 — the first Black African writer since Nigerian Wole Soyinka won it in 1986 — you could almost hear the head-scratching, at ...