Literature

New photobook to add to your lockdown reading list – AFRICAN COSMOLOGIES: PHOTOGRAPHY, TIME AND THE OTHER

Autograph ABP Director, Mark Sealy, recently curated African Cosmologies – Photography, Time and the Other,…

South African author and Zulu Sangoma (traditional healer) Credo Mutwa Dies

Celebrated South African author and Zulu sangoma (traditional healer) Credo Mutwa died following a period…

Interview with Malorie Blackman, author of Noughts + Crosses catch up on BBC iPlayer

Malorie Blackman OBE is a British writer who held the position of Children’s Laureate from…

London Book Fair Cancelled due to Coronavirus scare

The 2020 London Book Fair, which one of the UK’s largest book events, has been…

Third decade of AKO Caine Prize for African Writing has a record 222 Submissions from 28 countries across the Continent

Now entering its third decade, the AKO Caine Prize has received a record total of…

Dream No Small Dream: the Story of October Gallery

Dream No Small Dream: the Story of October Gallery celebrates 40 years of artistic innovation…

National Theatre: Bernardine Evaristo in Conversation in association with Penguin Live

Bernardine Evaristo on her Booker Prize-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other In conversation with Samira Ahmed, with readings by actors Adjoa…

Black Cultural Archives: This Is Book Love Half Term Takeover

AFTER ITS SOUTH LONDON SCHOOL TOUR, THE BOOK LOVE MULTICULTURAL TRAVELLING BOOK CARNIVAL RETURNS TO…

The AKO Caine Prize announces 2020 judges Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp named Chair of Judges

The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing has announced its panel of judges for 2020.…

BBC Radio 4 to air “New” Andrea Levy Interview recorded to be released only after death

Speaking on the condition that the recording would only be released after her death, Andrea…

New Children’s Book Follows Adventures of House Pets and Their Lives with Their Loving Owners

“Animals You’ll Learn to Love” by author Benessa Harrison is a delightful new children’s book…

The Margaret Busby Interview: A “Daughter of Africa”…..

“The first novel we published, in March 1969, was The Spook Who Sat by the…

Almeida Theatre announces Channel 4 Playwrights Bursary Winner Dipo Baruwa-Etti

The 2018/19 Almeida Youth Advisory Board member Dipo Baruwa-Etti has been awarded a Channel 4…

Fundraiser | Today Dec 5 George Padmore Institute: ‘The Padmore Tradition in Pan-Africanism’, with Hakim Adi and Margaret Busby

2019 is the 60th anniversary of the death of George Padmore who was born in…

Zadie Smith writes THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN for Brent

Internationally-acclaimed author Zadie Smith will write a new work as a gift to her home…