David Lacey, who died earlier this month at age 83, leaves an imposing legacy: his writing is the standard by which every football journalist will forever be judged
Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels
Biodun Olumuyiwa has been writing since the late 1980s, but has only recently published his debut poetry collection
One of Nigeria’s greatest poets has died. ‘I sing for you brother, teacher, poet, prophet’
The first bid to place Africa at the heart of literary studies took place in Kenya
The classic novel by Chinua Achebe, and how it came to be, are legendary African tales
Harry Garuba wrote his first collection of poems in 1982. It’s taken him 35 years to do a second
It’s not surprising that the country has still not
rid itself of its violent and racial bigotry
Ayòbámi Adébáyò summons Yoruba folklore and a longstanding literary tradition in her debut novel
With her intricate writing of physical suffering and supernatural torment, Toni Morrison vividly paints the pain of slavery