Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the best-selling Nigerian author, wants American readers to know that African writers don’t just write about Africa’s problems. “When we talk about the developing world, ...

For many American children of Wendy Laura Belcher’s generation, Africa was the land of Babar and of Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan, yodeling “Ungawa!” and swinging through the jungle in small-screen ...

Yale faculty member Cajetan Iheka was an undergraduate in his home country of Nigeria at the height of unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta in the 2000s. Militants were setting fire to oil installations ...

In recent years, the rise of literary works by African authors has rekindled interest in African literature, both in Türkiye and globally, academics said. The prominence of African literary works and ...

To any serious reader, regardless of political affiliation, Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a remarkable example of African-American literature, thanks to its ...

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 ...

African literature is the object of immense international interest across both academic and popular registers. Far from the field’s earlier, post-colonial association with marginality, a handful of ...

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 ...

This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, in this reflective season, we find ourselves at a crossroads that would be ...

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe died Thursday in Boston. His first novel, Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 and is still the most widely-read piece of African literature. Nigerian writer Chinua ...