Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the best-selling Nigerian author, wants American readers to know that African writers don’t just write about Africa’s problems. “When we talk about the developing world, ...

African literature is the object of immense international interest across both academic and popular registers. Far from the field’s earlier, post-colonial association with marginality, a handful of ...

This interview, conducted by Élisabeth Nicolini with Élimane Fall present, was published in Jeune Afrique no.1314, dated 12 March 1986. We know him as a revolutionary fighter; less as a literature ...

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 ...

When it comes to African literature, translation has mostly meant translating work from European languages into African ones. Translation from African languages into English has been long overdue. Now ...

I’d like to make a claim that runs counter to much of literary scholarship. Historically speaking, the collective enterprise we call African-American or black literature is of recent vintage—in fact, ...

The award of the Goncourt Prize, a prestigious French literature award, to Senegalese author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr in 2021 marks the first recognition of a sub-Saharan author by this institution in ...

At 4:30pm on Tuesday, Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi officially opened the second edition of the Sharjah Festival of African Literature, transforming University City into a vibrant space of ...