African literature encompasses a rich tapestry of narratives, philosophies, and cultural expressions that reflect the diverse experiences and beliefs of the continent's peoples. Recent research in ...

The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

What is the state of African literature given the number of African writers-poets, novelists, playwrights, more, who have moved to the Western world overtime? This issue of the mixture of African ...

In 1968, the Malian novelist Yambo Ouologuem won France’s prestigious Prix Renaudot for a bloody satire about a fictional African country called “Bound to Violence.” Opening in mock epic style with ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Although describing Achebe as “the father of African literature” is hyperbolic, it provides a figurative sense of his impact on the Anglophone ...

A Nobel Prize winner, who criticized Donald Trump and compared him to one of history’s most brutal dictators, has thanked the ...

With the final adjudication convention and related processes for this year's South African Literary Awards (Sala) now completed by a 33-strong distinguished panel of judges, the shortlisted names of ...

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 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya's capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Nuria ...

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 ...