Why do certain books make it to our desks, libraries and book shops over others? On International Book Day, we take a look at the progress made by African publishers. More and more African authors are ...

Get ready, readers, because there's a week-long reading event ready to kick off your December. Promoted by publishers and teachers, #ReadAfricaWeek highlights authors from that continent. Don't worry ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG – Novelist Angela Makholwa’s fascination with South Africa’s violent crime has made her one of the country’s most popular writers. Using sharply drawn characters and intriguing plots, ...

Zakes Mda is best known as a writer of novels set in post-apartheid South Africa. His latest, however, is set outside Athens, Ohio, a town where Mda did postgraduate work and has lived and taught ...

THE WHITE NILE (385 pp.)—Alan Moorehead—Harper ($5.95). It is one of the niceties of geography that Lake Victoria is vastly larger and more important—being a principal source of the Nile—than Lake ...

African superheroes are emerging, as comic book creators from the continent seek to change the meaning of diversity, bringing relatable characters and rich storytelling traditions to the increasingly ...

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 ...

A creative reset of modern African history, including a volume focused on the diaspora, has been released in three books to ...