Mr. Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan ...

Achraf Hakimi is the second African to win the UEFA Champions League with two clubs. Does his standing in the continent's ...

British writer Bernardine Evaristo has won the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award for her “transformative impact on literature.” ...

Bob Jeffrey, the chief executive of the International Centre of Photography (ICP), says such is the “enduring power” of an ...

The debates at Makerere included, among other things, the question of what constituted African literature, and whether literature in non-African languages (including English) could ever be truly ...

The pioneering gay writer Edmund White has died aged 85. Diagnosed with HIV in the late 1970s, he often said he had not ...

I had the privilege of sitting down with UC San Diego communication professor Zeinabu irene Davis, whose independent 1999 ...

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