Nigerian writer Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ took the literary world by storm with her debut novel Stay With Me in 2017. Six years later, she has followed up with an equally brilliant second novel, A Spell of ...

Ogaga Ifowodo has won the 2026 edition of The Nigeria Prize for Literature with his poetry collection, ‘Why Does God Need a Gun?’, earning the $100,000 prize, while Peter Oghenetega Oke and Feranmi ...

The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has produced its first-ever graduate in Hausa and Literature, marking a historic ...

Literary prizes come and go. Others survive on reputation long after their relevance has thinned. The Nigeria Prize for Literature has achieved something rare: it has remained, evolved, and continued ...

Lindsay Barrett is one Diaspora Pan-Africanist, who boldly stuck out his head in the heady days of the 1960s to relocate from Jamaica to parts of West Africa before settling down finally in Nigeria.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the best-selling Nigerian author, wants American readers to know that African writers don’t just write about Africa’s problems. “When we talk about the developing world, ...

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Writing for the British Council, Emma Shercliff, Director of Cassava Republic Press in the UK, looked at the changing face of Nigerian literature, both in its writing and publishing. It’s a ...

The first book-length study of digital literature in Africa has attracted a lot of academic attention. African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Kenya and ...