• Zoë Wicomb

Zoë Wicomb thinks she knows why black South African readers appreciate Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel 'The Promise' (2021) whilst many white readers were turned off by it.

• Chinelo Okparanta

The Nigerian-American author of the novel "Harry Sylvester Bird" talks to the Radical Books Collective ahead of her appearance at their book club.

• Marta Mboka Tveit

The rise of African Speculative Fiction and other exciting cultural production indicates that modernity is not an exercise in “catching up” with Europe, but an entirely new condition.

• Joanna Woods

What kinds of radical emancipatory futures are being imagined in Africa’s speculative fictions?

• Taiwo Egunjobi

Director Taiwo Egunjobi disavows Nollywood’s penchant for crass comedies and maudlin dramas.

• Ainehi Edoro

African writers produce in literary prose — a language and cultural ethos in which they do not live.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

The online retrospective, “Literary Sudans," is intended to highlight the two Sudans as sites of literature and culture.