Tomi Adeyemi Makes TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People List
Tomi Adeyemi Makes TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People List ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ author Tomi Adeyemi has been named as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. The brilliant…
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands…
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when…
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives…
New book on how to maintain going to the toilet twice a day
An African American author who goes by the name of C.S. (Clean Stomach) has released a new book entitled 2 + Bowel Movements A Day: A Natural Way to Maintain Going…
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
Original essays by some of our best black female writers and creative voices to shine a light on how we search for ourselves in literature, and how important it is…
The Infinite by Patience Agbabi
Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift – the ability to leap through time. Elle Bibi-Imbele Ifie has The…
Addis Ababa Noir
What marks life in Addis Ababa are the starkly different realities coexisting in one place. It’s a growing city taking shape beneath the fraught weight of history, myth, and memory….
Film Director Mann Robinson Releases the 1st and Only Book for Black Indie Filmmakers
A Look Into: Black Independent Filmmaking by Mann Robinson is a guide to succeeding in the world of filmmaking. If after watching a movie, you have ever wondered about creating a…
Unbury Our Dead With Song by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
This novel is a love letter to African music, beauty and imagination. Unbury our Dead With Song is a novel about four talented Ethiopian musicians – The Diva,The Corporal, the…
We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan
1960s UGANDA. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way forward, a new regime seizes…
The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka
1981, and England looks forward to a new decade. But on the streets of Brixton, it’s hard to hold onto your optimism, especially if you are a young black man….
How to Write about Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
This is a trio of essays. In ‘How to Write About Africa’, Wainaina dissects the cliché of Africa and the preconceptions dear to western writers and readers. ‘My Clan KC’…
The Greatness Of Africa
When I look at the Nile or Niger My heart overflows with profound admiration As currents daringly flow on each iconic river Every fountain has wealth embedded in her waters…