
Afreximbank Opens Submissions for the 2026 CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa
June 8, 2026 .
africanliterature, publishing
Now in its third edition, the USD20,000 prize celebrates excellence in African and Caribbean publishing.
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June 8, 2026 .
africanliterature, publishing
Now in its third edition, the USD20,000 prize celebrates excellence in African and Caribbean publishing.
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June 3, 2026 .
africanliterature, publishing
The publishing platform expands its cultural mandate with a dedicated advisory division offering strategic counseling to writers,...
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March 30, 2026 .
Nollywood
This situation is more than just a snub at a movie premiere. It reflects the realities of Nollywood at the highest level, where su...
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May 22, 2026 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Itohan had travelled to Juk to retrieve Ebuka’s badly mangled body and returned it to his old parents in their village in Imo Stat...
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November 19, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
A Meal Is a Meal is a journey into the surprising and the bizarre, as well as the tantalising and the delicious.
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November 15, 2025 .
akefestival, news
This year’s theme, Reclaiming Truth, speaks to the realities of the current world; a world where even “from positions ...
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November 10, 2025 .
Excerpt
In fact, on the morning of my birthday, just after we had broken up, I had spent time in the hotel begging someone else to love me...
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November 7, 2025 .
Anthology, Excerpt, Narrative Landscape
But he walked out the door and said he would go, by foot, if necessary, to Afghanistan, to kill the infidels who were bombing Musl...
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November 5, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Those hours waiting for her mother to return were spent in a state of inertia; she wouldn’t have been able to say what she had don...
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November 3, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt, Middle Grade
By the time you get this, I will be far away. It is cowardly, I know, but I cannot see your faces and walk away. Please forgive me...
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December 9, 2025 .
news
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s debut Afropantheology novel, the first in a trilogy, has been acquired by Shahid Mahmud.
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October 7, 2025 .
Leading voices across publishing, scholarship, and literacy initiatives come together to interrogate the role of the child in Afri...
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