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March 27, 2023

Got a Place to Go? Apply for a £6,000 Morland Travel Award

Open Country Mag

October 15, 2022

It’s a Continent Is a Popular History Podcast. Now It’s Also a Book.

Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba on how their “conversational approach to the book and podcast allows us to reach audiences who wouldn’t typically engage with such content.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba, hosts and authors of the podcast-turned-book It's a Continent. Image supplied.

September 7, 2022

Booker Prize: NoViolet Bulawayo Is the First Woman to Be Shortlisted for Her First Two Novels

With Glory, the Zimbabwean joins Nigeria’s Chigozie Obioma and India’s Rohinton Mistry in an elite group.
Otosirieze
NoViolet Bulawayo

July 16, 2022

Join the Booker Prize Book Club Challenge

Does your book club think it has what it takes to be Booker Prize judges? Would you like to attend this year’s Booker Prize ceremony?
The Booker Prize Foundation
The 2022 Booker Prize judges (L-R): Helen Castor, Alain Mabanckou, Neil MacGregor, M. John Harrison, and Shahidha Bari. © Hugo Glendinning via the Booker Prize Foundation website.

July 11, 2022

Enter for the Sky Arts RSL Writers Awards for British Writers of Colour

In addition to mentorship by Inua Ellams, Jay Bernard, Nadifa Mohamed, Vinay Patel, and Nikesh Shukla, winners will get sessions with Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo.
Open Country Mag
Bernardine Evaristo by Rex.

June 23, 2022

Win £1,000 from the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize

Open Country Mag
A print issue of Wasafiri. From @WasafiriMag on Twitter.

May 4, 2022

Ikhide R. Ikheloa Receives James Currey Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award

The Nigerian social critic has blogged extensively on the intersection of African literature and politics.
Uzoma Ihejirika
ikhide ikheloa

April 29, 2022

After 4-Way Auction, W&N Acquires UK Rights to Arinze Ifeakandu’s “Future Classic”

The author of God’s Children Are Broken Little Things is “destined to join the ranks of artists such as Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Arinze Ifeakandu by Bec Stupak Diop.

February 10, 2022

Damon Galgut Is a Finalist for the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize

The South African stylist, just announced as the February 2022 cover star of Open Country Mag, makes the shortlist with his Booker Prize-winning novel The Promise.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Author Damon Galgut at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony in London, Wednesday Nov. 3, 2021. South African writer Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize for fiction for “The Promise”. (David Parry/PA via AP)

January 27, 2022

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn’s Romantic Comedy Debut

In Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?, a woman charts the pressure to marry, and finds self-love.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Lizzie Damilola Blackburn - Yinka, Where Is Your Husband. Credit: Nataka Books.

January 21, 2022

Bookshop.org Announces Shortlist for New Futures Programme

It includes BAME, neurodiverse, LGBTQ+, and visually and hearing impaired as well as mental health advocates.
Midas PR
A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

December 23, 2021

Enter for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize

The £10,000 award went to Ethiopia’s Meron Hadero in 2021.
The AKO Caine Prize
Copies of Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize 2015 anthology. From caineprize.com.

December 21, 2021

Ore Agbaje-Williams’ Comedy Noir Debut Novel Set for 2023

The Three of Us, about a British Nigerian family, explores “questions about cultural expectations, the fine line between compromise and betrayal, and the nature of truth.”
Uzoma Ihejirika
Ore Agbaje-Williams by Ore Agbaje-Williams.

December 10, 2021

In Before Them, We, 24 U.K. Poets of African Descent Explore Their Grandparents’ Lives

Midas PR
The cover art of Before Them, We. Credit: Adama Jalloh.

December 2, 2021

Bernardine Evaristo Named President of Royal Society of Literature

The Booker Prize winner will be the second woman to hold the position. She is “one of literature’s most passionate and effective advocates,” said retiring president Marina Warner.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Bernardine Evaristo by Rex.

October 7, 2021

Bookshop.org Launches New Futures, an Initiative for Underrepresented Communities

Partnering with The Booksellers Association, Gardners, and The Bookseller, the initiative will see booksellers from Black and marginalized groups open their own indie bookshops.
Midas PR
A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

August 9, 2021

The Stories in Ben Okri’s Prayer for the Living Move between Reality and Myth

The book has been described as “playful, frightening, shocking,” one that “will make you think, or make you laugh.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
Ben Okri's Prayer for the Living.

August 9, 2021

Bolu Babalola’s Debut Collection Centers Women of Colour in Joyful Love

With Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around The World, Retold, the Nigerian British writer reinvents centuries-old love stories from West Africa, South Asia, and ancient Greece.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Bolu Babalola. Credit: Refinery29.

July 26, 2021

The Borough Press Acquires Adorah Nworah’s Debut, House Woman

The book, a tribute to horror stories, arrives in 2022.
The Borough Press
Adorah Nworah. From law.temple.edu.

June 14, 2021

Ellah P. Wakatama: The 2021 Harriet Martineau Lecture

National Centre for Writing
Ellah Wakatama still from 2021 Harriet Martineau Lecture

March 27, 2023

Got a Place to Go? Apply for a £6,000 Morland Travel Award

Open Country Mag

October 15, 2022

Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba, hosts and authors of the podcast-turned-book It's a Continent. Image supplied.

It’s a Continent Is a Popular History Podcast. Now It’s Also a Book.

Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba on how their “conversational approach to the book and podcast allows us to reach audiences who wouldn’t typically engage with such content.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

September 7, 2022

NoViolet Bulawayo

Booker Prize: NoViolet Bulawayo Is the First Woman to Be Shortlisted for Her First Two Novels

With Glory, the Zimbabwean joins Nigeria’s Chigozie Obioma and India’s Rohinton Mistry in an elite group.
Otosirieze

July 16, 2022

The 2022 Booker Prize judges (L-R): Helen Castor, Alain Mabanckou, Neil MacGregor, M. John Harrison, and Shahidha Bari. © Hugo Glendinning via the Booker Prize Foundation website.

Join the Booker Prize Book Club Challenge

Does your book club think it has what it takes to be Booker Prize judges? Would you like to attend this year’s Booker Prize ceremony?
The Booker Prize Foundation

July 11, 2022

Bernardine Evaristo by Rex.

Enter for the Sky Arts RSL Writers Awards for British Writers of Colour

In addition to mentorship by Inua Ellams, Jay Bernard, Nadifa Mohamed, Vinay Patel, and Nikesh Shukla, winners will get sessions with Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo.
Open Country Mag

June 23, 2022

A print issue of Wasafiri. From @WasafiriMag on Twitter.

Win £1,000 from the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize

Open Country Mag

May 4, 2022

ikhide ikheloa

Ikhide R. Ikheloa Receives James Currey Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award

The Nigerian social critic has blogged extensively on the intersection of African literature and politics.
Uzoma Ihejirika

April 29, 2022

Arinze Ifeakandu by Bec Stupak Diop.

After 4-Way Auction, W&N Acquires UK Rights to Arinze Ifeakandu’s “Future Classic”

The author of God’s Children Are Broken Little Things is “destined to join the ranks of artists such as Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu

February 10, 2022

Author Damon Galgut at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony in London, Wednesday Nov. 3, 2021. South African writer Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize for fiction for “The Promise”. (David Parry/PA via AP)

Damon Galgut Is a Finalist for the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize

The South African stylist, just announced as the February 2022 cover star of Open Country Mag, makes the shortlist with his Booker Prize-winning novel The Promise.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

January 27, 2022

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn - Yinka, Where Is Your Husband. Credit: Nataka Books.

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn’s Romantic Comedy Debut

In Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?, a woman charts the pressure to marry, and finds self-love.
Paula Willie-Okafor

January 21, 2022

A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

Bookshop.org Announces Shortlist for New Futures Programme

It includes BAME, neurodiverse, LGBTQ+, and visually and hearing impaired as well as mental health advocates.
Midas PR

December 23, 2021

Copies of Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize 2015 anthology. From caineprize.com.

Enter for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize

The £10,000 award went to Ethiopia’s Meron Hadero in 2021.
The AKO Caine Prize

December 21, 2021

Ore Agbaje-Williams by Ore Agbaje-Williams.

Ore Agbaje-Williams’ Comedy Noir Debut Novel Set for 2023

The Three of Us, about a British Nigerian family, explores “questions about cultural expectations, the fine line between compromise and betrayal, and the nature of truth.”
Uzoma Ihejirika

December 10, 2021

The cover art of Before Them, We. Credit: Adama Jalloh.

In Before Them, We, 24 U.K. Poets of African Descent Explore Their Grandparents’ Lives

Midas PR

December 2, 2021

Bernardine Evaristo by Rex.

Bernardine Evaristo Named President of Royal Society of Literature

The Booker Prize winner will be the second woman to hold the position. She is “one of literature’s most passionate and effective advocates,” said retiring president Marina Warner.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

October 7, 2021

A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

Bookshop.org Launches New Futures, an Initiative for Underrepresented Communities

Partnering with The Booksellers Association, Gardners, and The Bookseller, the initiative will see booksellers from Black and marginalized groups open their own indie bookshops.
Midas PR

August 9, 2021

Ben Okri's Prayer for the Living.

The Stories in Ben Okri’s Prayer for the Living Move between Reality and Myth

The book has been described as “playful, frightening, shocking,” one that “will make you think, or make you laugh.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

August 9, 2021

Bolu Babalola. Credit: Refinery29.

Bolu Babalola’s Debut Collection Centers Women of Colour in Joyful Love

With Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around The World, Retold, the Nigerian British writer reinvents centuries-old love stories from West Africa, South Asia, and ancient Greece.
Paula Willie-Okafor

July 26, 2021

Adorah Nworah. From law.temple.edu.

The Borough Press Acquires Adorah Nworah’s Debut, House Woman

The book, a tribute to horror stories, arrives in 2022.
The Borough Press

June 14, 2021

Ellah Wakatama still from 2021 Harriet Martineau Lecture

Ellah P. Wakatama: The 2021 Harriet Martineau Lecture

National Centre for Writing

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