Magunga Williams grew up in Kisumu, a Kenyan city that’s home to more than three hundred thousand people but to only two major bookstores. There, Williams told me recently, “people depend on books ...

Share this list of children’s books set in Africa with your children ages 2 to 12. Discover picture books, chapter books, and middle grade books with stories spotlight the rich diversity of the ...

The acclaimed French publishing imprint Assouline, famous for it’s collectible, image rich coffee table books, is taking on safaris for the first time with “African Adventures: The Greatest Safari on ...

South African-born literary scholar Dennis Walder recently published an evocative life story called Amid the Alien Corn: A Son’s Memoir. In it, he tracks how, even as a child, he became aware that his ...

African literature is the object of immense international interest across both academic and popular registers. Far from the field’s earlier, post-colonial association with marginality, a handful of ...

Selling African-American–themed titles overseas isn’t always easy, but it can be done. Ayana Mathis’s acclaimed multigenerational saga (and Oprah pick), The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, is popular abroad; ...

On Saturday night, the NAACP celebrated the winners of its annual Image Awards event, spanning music, film and literature. We had shared all 40 nominees in the latter category last week and are back ...

Nasozi Kakembo is a journalist, writer, and Ugandan-American designer passionate about bringing awareness to the beauty of African designers and artisans. Although she has partnered with brands such ...

Books have long been a cornerstone of cultural preservation and empowerment; this is especially true within the African-American community, where books created for us and by us have a history of being ...