Accusé d’« outrage au chef de l’Etat », Patrice Nganang, camerounais, professeur de la littérature comparée, reste en prison....
Fiction and literature lose a trenchant and influential chronicler of the Nigerian, female and human condition in Buchi Emecheta....
The Etisalat Prize for Literature has published its shortlist, with judges and readers set to peruse these novels, nominees,...
Navona has published a definitive Spanish translation of the Alexandre Dumas classic, The Count of Montecristo; “a great European...
Margot Lee Shetterly brings into view the crucial role played by four African-American women at NASA during segregation, 1940s-60s. Genre: Books,...
John Edgar Wideman searches in searing prose for Louis Till, father of Emmett Till, both executed, by the Army,...
Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with lyric precision, holding his world at an...
Henrietta Rose-Innes offers a “gripping, thrilling allegory of a troubled nation” and a “wounded love for her country,” South...
Zadie Smith presents a fluid meditation, via a cross-racial relationship between two female protagonists, on race, class, geopolitics, dance,...
David Olusoga uncovers long, shared history between the British Isles and the people of Africa, drawing on new genetic...