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African literature

June 6, 2025

32 Books in 63 Years: Your Guide to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Body of Work

The late great Kenyan writer produced full-length work in all genres except poetry, capturing the tensions between colonizer and colonized, orality and literacy, and tradition and modernity.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji
Your guide to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's body of work

April 29, 2022

Keletso Mopai Owns Her Story and Her Voice

The author of the short story collection If You Keep Digging on activism, the social power of literature, and South Africa’s need for change.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Keletso Mopai

April 13, 2022

The Seminal Breakout of Gbenga Adesina

The prize-winning Nigerian poet and co-founder of A Long House magazine honed his craft in the quiet, and then we heard his pathbreaking voice.
Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu
Gbenga Adesina by Ladan Osman.

April 13, 2022

At Africa in Dialogue, Gaamangwe Joy Mogami Lures Out Storytelling Truths

For many writers and artists in the continent, the Motswana shaman, poet, scriptwriter, editor, and interviewer is a go-to for deep conversations. What she does is “about consciousness,” going “into the realm of memory.”
Otosirieze
Gaamangwe Joy Mogami.

April 13, 2022

Cheswayo Mphanza on Intertextual Poetry & Zambia’s Moment

The author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated poetry collection The Rinehart Frames wants “an expansion in terms of how we speak of African literature.”
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
Cheswayo Mphanza.

April 13, 2022

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s Curation of African Speculative Fiction

The writer and editor, working from Nigeria, has seen his groundbreaking work with the anthology Dominion earn major acclaim in the US and the UK, including becoming the first Africa-born Black writer to earn a Hugo Award nomination.
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.

April 13, 2022

Logan February on Their Becoming

The Future Award Africa Prize-winning Nigerian poet and author of the collection In the Nude on “the book as an interface for the soul” and their literary, musical, and cinematic influences.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Logan February by Weiji Wang.

April 9, 2022

Remy Ngamije on Doek! & the New Age of Namibian Literature

The editor of Doek!, author of The Eternal Audience of One, and Commonwealth Prize winner is leading a charge to place his country on the literary map.
Otosirieze
Remy Ngamije by Namafu Amutse.

April 9, 2022

Inside The Cheeky Natives, Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane & Alma-Nalisha Cele’s Archive of Intentionality

The lawyer and the doctor on podcasting, documenting South Africa’s Black voices, and getting African literature its own due.
Otosirieze
Alma-Nalisha Cisse (L) and Letlhogonolo Mogkoroane (R) of The Cheeky Natives.

April 6, 2022

Romeo Oriogun Wrested Poetry from Pain

From the streets of Benin City to The New Yorker, a young working-class Nigerian writer scaled obstacles and became a defining voice in African poetry.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Romeo Oriogun for Open Country Mag.

June 6, 2025

Your guide to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's body of work

32 Books in 63 Years: Your Guide to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Body of Work

The late great Kenyan writer produced full-length work in all genres except poetry, capturing the tensions between colonizer and colonized, orality and literacy, and tradition and modernity.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

April 29, 2022

Keletso Mopai

Keletso Mopai Owns Her Story and Her Voice

The author of the short story collection If You Keep Digging on activism, the social power of literature, and South Africa’s need for change.
Paula Willie-Okafor

April 13, 2022

Gbenga Adesina by Ladan Osman.

The Seminal Breakout of Gbenga Adesina

The prize-winning Nigerian poet and co-founder of A Long House magazine honed his craft in the quiet, and then we heard his pathbreaking voice.
Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu

April 13, 2022

Gaamangwe Joy Mogami.

At Africa in Dialogue, Gaamangwe Joy Mogami Lures Out Storytelling Truths

For many writers and artists in the continent, the Motswana shaman, poet, scriptwriter, editor, and interviewer is a go-to for deep conversations. What she does is “about consciousness,” going “into the realm of memory.”
Otosirieze

April 13, 2022

Cheswayo Mphanza.

Cheswayo Mphanza on Intertextual Poetry & Zambia’s Moment

The author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated poetry collection The Rinehart Frames wants “an expansion in terms of how we speak of African literature.”
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola

April 13, 2022

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s Curation of African Speculative Fiction

The writer and editor, working from Nigeria, has seen his groundbreaking work with the anthology Dominion earn major acclaim in the US and the UK, including becoming the first Africa-born Black writer to earn a Hugo Award nomination.
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola

April 13, 2022

Logan February by Weiji Wang.

Logan February on Their Becoming

The Future Award Africa Prize-winning Nigerian poet and author of the collection In the Nude on “the book as an interface for the soul” and their literary, musical, and cinematic influences.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

April 9, 2022

Remy Ngamije by Namafu Amutse.

Remy Ngamije on Doek! & the New Age of Namibian Literature

The editor of Doek!, author of The Eternal Audience of One, and Commonwealth Prize winner is leading a charge to place his country on the literary map.
Otosirieze

April 9, 2022

Alma-Nalisha Cisse (L) and Letlhogonolo Mogkoroane (R) of The Cheeky Natives.

Inside The Cheeky Natives, Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane & Alma-Nalisha Cele’s Archive of Intentionality

The lawyer and the doctor on podcasting, documenting South Africa’s Black voices, and getting African literature its own due.
Otosirieze

April 6, 2022

Romeo Oriogun for Open Country Mag.

Romeo Oriogun Wrested Poetry from Pain

From the streets of Benin City to The New Yorker, a young working-class Nigerian writer scaled obstacles and became a defining voice in African poetry.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

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