Brendon Nicholls has previously received research funding from the CSIR (South Africa), the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (South Africa), the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (United ...

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 ...

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 ...

The African novel has come of age in the early 21st century North American diaspora. Straddling homelands, histories, myths, looking for values and identity somewhere in between—those are the grand ...

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 ...

AND so we see off 2016, and welcome 2017. It is time for resolutions, and if you are the reading type, here are five African novels worth having in your bucket list: There is a surfeit of book prizes.

Journal of African Cultural Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Dec., 2001), pp. 193-219 (27 pages) General trends in post-colonial African literature and criticism are explored with a particular focus on the ...

Today is Freedom Day in South Africa: April 27th marks the anniversary of the election held in 1994 when for the first time the Black majority had the chance to vote. It is 21 years today since that ...

For those looking from the global North, African literature is often marketed in a narrow way, comprising worthy stories of resistance, written in an uplifting and sober realist mode. Seen from the ...

Beverly Jenkins will talk about her historical romance novels at the Schuler book store in the Eastwood Towne Center at 7 p.m. Thursday. A romance novelist from Belleville, Michigan, will be in ...