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On Translating Your Own Novel *Back* Into Your Mother Tongue

On Translating Your Own Novel Back Into Your Mother Tongue

Hannes Barnard and Andreas Roman Talk to Jessica Powers

By Jessica Powers | May 16, 2025

Listening To Africa: Three African Writers Discuss the History and Future of African Music

Listening To Africa: Three African Writers Discuss the History and Future of African Music

Ashawnta Jackson Talks to Christian Adofo, Liam Brickhill, and Lior Phillips About the Continent’s Diverse Soundscape For #ReadingAfrica

By Literary Hub | December 5, 2024

How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

Jessica Powers and Kenechi Uzor on What Diversity Means, Defining African Literature, and Taking Risks as Publishers

By Jessica Powers | August 5, 2024

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Lynnette Mawhinney Speaks with Cicely Lewis, Christopher Stewart, Shamika J. Simpson, Ahmed Ismail Yusuf, and Holly Y. McGee

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2023

Books That Travel: A Report From the 2023 Nairobi International Book Fair

Books That Travel: A Report From the 2023 Nairobi International Book Fair

Jessica Powers on the Struggles and Rewards of Bringing African Literature to the Global Market

By Jessica Powers | December 4, 2023

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu on Crafting and Subverting Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu | September 27, 2023

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Eye Brother Horn

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#ReadingAfrica: Five Writers and Publishers Discuss the Continent’s Boundless Literary Landscape

By Literary Hub | December 8, 2022

Ten Books to Help Understand the Conflicts in South Sudan and Ethiopia

Ten Books to Help Understand the Conflicts in South Sudan and Ethiopia

Caroline Kurtz Recommends Maaza Mengiste, Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Dinaw Mengestu, and More

By Caroline Kurtz | April 25, 2022

The History of Man

The History of Man

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 13, 2022

On the Complex Historical and Contemporary Terrain of African Literature

On the Complex Historical and Contemporary Terrain of African Literature

Jessica Powers Talks to Kwasi Konadu, Trevor Getz, Lizzy Attree, Wendy Urban-Mead, Holly Y. McGee, and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu for #readingAfrica

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2021

“The Fish Tank Crab”

“The Fish Tank Crab”

Genna Gardini

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 3, 2021

On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

Siphiwe Ndlovu Charts the Path to Her Debut Novel

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu | January 13, 2021

5 Books You May Have Missed in February

5 Books You May Have Missed in February

From Scottish Seal Women to Nigerian Curses, Stories from Around the World

By Bethanne Patrick | March 14, 2019

At the Mogadishu Book Fair, Literature Is Hope

At the Mogadishu Book Fair, Literature Is Hope

Writer Ahmed Ismail Yusuf on Going Home After Decades Away

By Ahmed Ismail Yusuf | September 17, 2018