Africa
Friday – 12th October 2018
Call for submissions: AfroYoungAdult – a talent-search for Young Adult fiction from Africa!
Calling aspiring African writers of all ages interested in writing for Young Adults!
Thursday – 11th October 2018
Coming soon! Tsitsi Dangarembga’s new novel This Mournable Body is about to hit the shelves
Jacana Media has exciting news! This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga has gone to the printers and will hit the shelves soon.
Wednesday – 3rd October 2018
Find your flow: Apply for the Short Story Day Africa 2018 Flow Writing Workshop in Kigali
Calling all writers in Rwanda! Apply today to attend the 2018 Hotel Africa Flow Workshop hosted by Goethe-Institut Kigali.
Don’t miss the launch of As You Like It – Talking gender, social justice and sexuality with The Cheeky Natives
Jacana Media and The Other Foundation invite you to the launch of As You Like It, hosted by the Forum for the Empowerment of Women.
Monday – 17th September 2018
Otosirieze joins Gerald Kraak Prize and Anthology judging panel
The Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology has announced the appointment of Otosirieze to the 2018/19 judging panel.
Exclusive Books wins BASA Award for Pan-African Reading Room, which houses over 2000 African books at Windybrow Heritage House
Exclusive Books, The Market Theatre Foundation and The Coloured Cube have been announced as BASA Award winners for the Sponsorship in Kind …
Friday – 14th September 2018
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Olumide Popoola’s debut novel When We Speak of Nothing
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend! Stay in this evening and enjoy a glass of wine with …
Monday – 3rd September 2018
Read an excerpt from Nigerian–American author Tomi Adeyemi’s epic West African fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone
It’s all I can do not to scream. I dig my nails into the marula oak of my staff and squeeze to keep from fidgeting. Beads of sweat drip down my back, but I can’t tell if it’s from dawn’s early heat or from my heart slamming against my chest. Moon after moon I’ve been passed over.
Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien – an incredibly powerful portrayal of what it means to be a gay Nigerian man
Lives of Great Men, the award-winning memoir from Chike Frankie Edozien, is out now from Jacana Media.
Tuesday – 28th August 2018
Short Story Day Africa Prize 2018 deadline extended
The deadline for the Short Story Day Africa Prize has been extended to 31 October 2018.
Friday – 24th August 2018
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
Wednesday – 22nd August 2018
Listen to an excerpt from Hold, the debut novel from Michael Donkor set in Ghana and South-East London
‘Both moving and funny, a big-hearted book that will stay with you.’ – The Guardian (Best Fiction for 2018)
Tuesday – 14th August 2018
This Mournable Body – the new novel from Tsitsi Dangarembga is here!
With her 1988 novel Nervous Conditions, Dangarembga became the first black Zimbabwean woman to publish a novel in English. The Book of Not, published in 2006, continued with Tambudzai’s story. This Mournable Body completes the trilogy, thirty years later.
Friday – 10th August 2018
Trifonia Melibea Obono’s La Bastarda: Modjaji Books releases first novel by an Equatorial Guinean woman to be translated into English
Cape Town-based independent feminist press Modjaji Books is set to release the southern African version of La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono.
Africa! Submissions are open for the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology
Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology: An award and anthology on the topics of gender, human rights and sexuality, for writers and photographers across Africa.
Tuesday – 7th August 2018
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2018
To celebrate 20 years since the beginning of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, a special 20th anniversary edition of the book that started it all has been released.
Monday – 6th August 2018
An exciting new African voice – Read an excerpt from Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s debut novel The Theory of Flight
Read an excerpt from The Theory of Flight, the debut novel by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu!
Friday – 3rd August 2018
The programme for the 2018 Open Book Festival has been revealed!
The full programme has been announced for the eighth Open Book Festival!
Thursday – 2nd August 2018
The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe – a fascinating account of the rise and fall of one of Africa’s longest-ruling dictators
The ousting of Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe’s president took the world by surprise. In The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe, veteran Zimbabwean journalist Geoffrey Nyarota explains how and why the events of November 2017 happened as they did.
Details of Panashe Chigumadzi’s South African author tour for her new book These Bones Will Rise Again
A timeous book, with Zimbabwe’s elections having taken place on 30 July, These Bones Will Rise Again responds to the November 2017 ousting of Robert Mugabe, exploring events leading up to the ‘coup not coup’ that brought his 37-year rule to an end.