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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi wins $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize for her debut novel, Kintu
Ugandan writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has won a prestigious 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, Kintu.
Cynthia Jele’s next book: Title and cover revealed
Kwela Books has revealed the title and a sneak peek of Cynthia Jele’s next novel!
NB Publishers on Hawks raid of Jacques Pauw’s home: ‘We condemn this jackboot move in the strongest of terms’
NB Publishers has released a statement following a raid by the Hawks on the home of Jacques Pauw, author of the controversial book The President’s Keepers.
Niq Mhlongo: The banning of Inxeba is illegal
Niq Mhlongo, author and City Editor of the Johannesburg Review of Books, has written a response to the recent effective banning of Inxeba: The Wound.
Part of your water crisis survival kit: 101 Water Wise Ways by Helen Moffett
101 Water Wise Ways by Helen Moffett – an essential guide for those dealing with the Cape water crisis and for general water saving in South and southern Africa, a notoriously water-scarce region.
Feminism Is: A collection of fresh, contemporary feminist writing from South Africans
Do you call yourself a feminist? What does this mean in your daily life?
Lupita Nyong’o to star in film adaptation of Trevor Noah’s memoir Born A Crime
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, currently starring in the smash hit Black Panther, has announced that she has signed on to star in a feature film adaptation of Trevor Noah’s memoir Born A Crime.
RIP: ‘People’s economist’ Sampie Terreblanche dies at 84
Veteran political economist and academic Professor Johannes ‘Sampie’ Terreblanche passed away on Saturday at the age of 84.
2018 Time of the Writer Festival lineup announced, including Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Alain Mabanckou, Yewande Omotoso and Mohale Mashigo
The lineup for this year’s Time of the Writer Festival has been announced!
A darkly comic, powerful portrait of South Africa: Christopher Hope’s new book The Cafe de Move-on Blues announced
Christopher Hope’s new book, The Cafe de Move-on Blues: A Look at Post-Apartheid South Africa will be published by Atlantic Books in May! Hope was …
Dates announced for the 2018 Abantu Book Festival
Get your diaries out! Dates have been announced for the third annual Abantu Book Festival!
Cover reveal: Zukiswa Wanner’s new book Hardly Working
The cover for Zukiswa Wanner’s new book Hardly Working has been revealed!
Win a copy of Diane Awerbuck’s haiku notebook, As Above, So Below
The Reading List is giving away two copies of Diane Awerbuck’s beautiful new notebook, As Above, So Below! The book features Awerbuck’s …
Cover reveal and publication date for Chigozie Obioma’s second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma’s second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, will be published by Little, Brown in the United States on 4 September, 2018!
Not House Baratheon or House Stark: Cape Town is House Greywater – ‘That which is used may be used again’
Cape Town-based writer Charlie Human has created a wry, Game of Thrones-themed response to the Western Cape’s water crisis. Human is …
Remembering Hugh Masekela: The horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day
Trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer.
Africa’s Lit: 2017 highlights, featuring Zakes Mda, Dudu Busani-Dube, Ayobami Adebayo, Malebo Sephodi and Angela Makholwa!
The December edition of Africa’s Lit features the light and quirky moments with your favourite authors from video recordings throughout 2018.
Kopano Matlwa, Zinzi Clemmons and Fiona Melrose reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement
Johannesburg was the focus in the Times Literary Supplement this month, with a review of Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain, Zinzi Clemmons’s What We Lose and Fiona Melrose’s Johannesburg.
Niq Mhlongo reveals cover for his next book, Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree
Niq Mhlongo has revealed the prospective cover for his next book, a collection of short stories to be titled Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree.
Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ considers key questions around the misreading of African literature in The Rise of the African Novel
The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership, a new book by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, will be out in March 2018 from University of Michigan Press’s African Perspectives series.