When it comes to African literature, translation has mostly meant translating work from European languages into African ones. Translation from African languages into English has been long overdue. Now ...

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 ...

Funding from the Leverhulme Trust in 2013 supported some of his work on Zoë Wicomb for an earlier book. Zoë Wicomb’s first ...

The author of "Things Fall Apart," Chinua Achebe is one of the most widely read African authors. Wikimedia Commons In a 1994 interview with the Paris Review, Chinua Achebe, the world’s most ...

T.L. Huchu’s powerhouse new novel, The Library of the Dead, plunges readers into the dark, supernatural recesses of contemporary Edinburgh while expertly blending SFF, noir, and elements of Zimbabwean ...

Magunga Williams grew up in Kisumu, a Kenyan city that’s home to more than three hundred thousand people but to only two major bookstores. There, Williams told me recently, “people depend on books ...

In parts of Africa, books can be expensive and difficult to find. When Atlanta teen sisters Azzarree and Amirrah Uwhubetine were growing up in Nigeria, they either chose their favorite titles on ...

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 ...