How To Kill The Nigerian Publishing Industry
Nigeria's Minister of Finance imposes a 62.5% tariff on imported printed books, where previously there has been none.
Nigeria's Minister of Finance imposes a 62.5% tariff on imported printed books, where previously there has been none.
The real question is of course about the racism of Sherlock Holmes's creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The writer on Frank’s Archive, based on her father's records, that explores the different functions of books, power and knowledge.
António Oliveira Salazar founded Portugal’s New State dictatorship in 1933. Some Portuguese still remember him fondly.
In Deji Olukotun’s novel, a Nigerian NASA scientist -- on behalf of all colonized people -- wants to return moon rocks that Neil Armstrong brought back to earth.
In gratitude to Stuart Hall, a socialist intellectual who taught us to confront the political with a smile.
Every side-eye, cringe, SMH and WTF in the world has gathered for a family reunion in
The 54-storey building in Johannesburg, built in the 1970s, is the tallest residential building on the continent, and subject of a new photobook.
Between 2012 and 2013, an exercise took place known as the France South Africa Season. This
A lost chapter from Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir, "One Day I Will Write About This Place," dated 11 July, 2000, the day his mother passed away.
The melodic world alive in the work of Somali author Diriye Osman.
Pierre Joris and Habib Tengou edit a book about the multiple beginnings, traditions and genealogies in the literatures of the many languages of the region, and the region's diasporas.
The first full color photographs of the vibrant, underground jazz scene that flourished in South Africa in the 1960s.
Introducing the South African writer, K. Sello Duiker's novel 'Thirteen Cents' to US audiences.
The fact that the global novel has emerged from the world of the global literary economy does not render it "lite."
Only five African or African-born writers have been awarded the prize since it was first awarded in 1901: Soyinka, Mahfouz, Gordimer, Coetzee and Lessing.
A former student of Kofi Awoonor remembers the famed Ghanaian writer who was killed in a terror attack by Al Shabaab in Niairobi, Kenya.
J M Coetzee, South Africa's most decorated and celebrated writer, gets the country's literary scholars and biographers, all worked up.
The film "Zulu" - starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom - are getting lukewarm reviews. Is the novel, it's based on, any good?
Namibian literature is a subject that usually draws a blank look and those deeply involved face many frustrations.