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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.”

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn’s Romantic Comedy Debut

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

Bookshop.org Announces Shortlist for New Futures Programme

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

Enter for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize

The £10,000 award went to Ethiopia’s Meron Hadero in 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.”

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

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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

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

Ellah P. Wakatama: The 2021 Harriet Martineau Lecture

Tsitsi Dangarembga Awarded PEN Pinter Prize 2021

The novelist—Open Country Mag’s December 2020 cover star—is recognized for her “unflinching, unswerving gaze,” having “charted the development of Zimbabwe from a British colony to an autocratic and troubled free state.”

Ernest Ogunyemi

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

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

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

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

June 23, 2022

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

Open Country Mag

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

December 10, 2021

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

Midas PR

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

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

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

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.

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