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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The Orange Blossom" was released Thursday, and author Jebeh Edmunds shared how her own Liberian heritage influenced the ...

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 ...

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. Kenechi Uzor understood that African proverb long before he first saw a lion in the flesh, 7,200 miles from ...

The five winners of the second edition of the Radiate Rwanda Literary Excellence Awards 2025, are set to be announced on November 7, following a rigorous selection process by a jury of the committee ...

WBFF-FOX Baltimore — The Black Girl Book Fair is set to take place today, bringing together readers, writers, and creatives to celebrate the power of Black women's voices in literature. The event will ...

Don't be deceived by the billions.  They are not all coming to me. They are shared by many writers in the USA.' ...