HeadStrong: The Women of Rural Uganda, a new photobook by New York-based photographer Dan Nelken, is out from Kehrer Verlag in 2026. It pairs portraits with the personal testimonies of a diverse group of working women across rural Uganda, and it includes contributions by the Ugandan writers Beatrice
Two Interlocked Triangles, a new stage play by Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè, will be staged at the Wole Soyinka Theatre, University of Ibadan, on Saturday, November 28, at 5 p.m. It is part of Fàdákà Fest 2026, whose third edition is themed RE:CLAIM. The production is directed by Adedapo Treasure and p
Sahra Noor will discuss her memoir Salt in the Snow: A Somali Immigration Story with Bhakti Shringarpure at a Radical Books Collective book club on Sunday, November 15, at 12 p.m. New York time. The conversation will be livestreamed on Substack, YouTube, and Facebook. We wrote about the book in Sept
ZamaShort Volume One, the debut annual anthology from the ZamaShort imprint, was released on November 8. It collects the first twelve stories from the imprint’s ongoing singles series and covers satire, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and literary fiction. The editor is Ivor W. Hartmann, and the f
Three Ghanaian authors will bring their work to Dubai this Saturday, November 14, at Ghanaian Voices in Dubai 2026. Oswald Okaitei, an author and spoken word artist, Elizabeth-Irene Baitie, an author and biochemist, and Ruby Yayra Ama Goka, an author and dentist, will give readings and take part in
This Friday, November 13, readers will hear Bientang in English for the first time. Jolyn Phillips’s award-winning epic poem, first published in Afrikaans in 2020, will be read aloud in a virtual event hosted by the Africana Studies Global Virtual Forum at Penn State’s Department of Africana Studies
A new episode of Global Insights on New Lines Magazine’s podcast The Lede takes on the AI accusations that have unsettled literary prizes this year. Host Kwangu Liwewe Agyei is joined by author and 2013 Caine Prize winner Tope Folarin and AI researcher Tuhin Chakrabarty to discuss what the controver
The African Feminist Initiative (AFI) at Penn State has announced this year’s grant recipients, naming five scholars and artists whose work spans parliamentary politics in Uganda, Black womanhood in South Africa’s Diamond City, Black masculinities across three continents, women’s cultural production
Nigerian author Marvellous Michael Anson, known to readers as Marve, is heading out on tour to celebrate the release of Heir of the Shadow, Book Two of her Yoruba-inspired epic fantasy trilogy Firstborn of the Sun, out on 26 November 2026. The adult epic fantasy romance returns to the Kingdom of Oru
South African author Diane Awerbuck has launched her new poetry collection, Fishwife, published by Modjaji Books. The launch took place on 27 October at Kalk Bay Books in Cape Town, where Awerbuck was in conversation with Charisse Louw, curator of Burning Down the House. An appreciative crowd turned