• Jeremy Weate

Nigeria's Minister of Finance imposes a 62.5% tariff on imported printed books, where previously there has been none.

• Marta Tveit

The real question is of course about the racism of Sherlock Holmes's creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

• Chandra Frank

The writer on Frank’s Archive, based on her father's records, that explores the different functions of books, power and knowledge.

• Marissa Moorman

António Oliveira Salazar founded Portugal’s New State dictatorship in 1933. Some Portuguese still remember him fondly.

• Megan Eardley

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.

• Ben Carrington

In gratitude to Stuart Hall, a socialist intellectual who taught us to confront the political with a smile.

• Paula Akugizibwe

• Grace Benton

The 54-storey building in Johannesburg, built in the 1970s, is the tallest residential building on the continent, and subject of a new photobook.

• Cedric Nunn

• Binyavanga Wainaina

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.

• Jonathan Duncan

The melodic world alive in the work of Somali author Diriye Osman.

• Orlando Reade

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.

• Matt Temple

The first full color photographs of the vibrant, underground jazz scene that flourished in South Africa in the 1960s.

• Steffan Horowitz

Introducing the South African writer, K. Sello Duiker's novel 'Thirteen Cents' to US audiences.

• Chiwoniso Kaitano

The fact that the global novel has emerged from the world of the global literary economy does not render it "lite."

• Z’étoile Imma

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.

• Nii Ayikwei Parkes

A former student of Kofi Awoonor remembers the famed Ghanaian writer who was killed in a terror attack by Al Shabaab in Niairobi, Kenya.

• Monica Popescu

J M Coetzee, South Africa's most decorated and celebrated writer, gets the country's literary scholars and biographers, all worked up.

• Jill E. Kelly

The film "Zulu" - starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom - are getting lukewarm reviews. Is the novel, it's based on, any good?

• Netta Kornberg

Namibian literature is a subject that usually draws a blank look and those deeply involved face many frustrations.