NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet ...

Prof Jaco Barnard-Naude was recently awarded the coveted Ingrid Jonker Literary Prize – widely considered the highest honour for debut Afrikaans poetry.

Jaco Barnard-Naude, a senior law academic at UCT, has been awarded the Ingrid Jonker Literary Prize for his debut poetry ...

In its first exhibit on the “diversity and excellence” of African literature, Doe Library invites visitors on a tour of literature across sub-Saharan Africa. More than 50 people attended the launch to ...

Located in the small oasis town of Somerset East in the semiarid Karoo midlands of South Africa, there is a house for writers: Paulet House, where emerging and established writers come to give their ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. From the publication of his first novel, "Things Fall Apart", ...

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What is the state of African literature given the number of African writers-poets, novelists, playwrights, more, who have moved to the Western world overtime? This issue of the mixture of African ...

The Program in African Studies provides a systematic introduction to the complex historical, political and social issues of the African continent. Its major and minor are structured to give students ...

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