Located in the small oasis town of Somerset East in the semiarid Karoo midlands of South Africa, there is a house for writers: Paulet House, where emerging and established writers come to give their ...

The Race Unity Coalition in Carbondale is engaging in a national effort to highlight African American literature and history this February.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet ...

Anyone familiar with African literature is likely to have read one of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels or NoViolet Bulawayo’s highly praised debut We Need New Names. If you’re looking to delve deeper ...

Nigerian author Wole Soyinka speaks to journalists at the UNESCO headquarters after he became the first author from Africa to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paris, 1986 (AP photo by Laurent ...

NEW YORK - The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway: "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond," Chinua Achebe wrote in ...

When Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Oct. 7 — the first Black African writer since Nigerian Wole Soyinka won it in 1986 — you could almost hear the head-scratching, at ...

Thomas Jefferson’s skepticism about the ability of African-Americans to produce poetry and art prompted black authors to prove their equality in literature, Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Friday as he ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya's capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Nuria ...

The Jaguars topped the Chiefs 31-28 in an epic game on “Monday Night Football” at EverBank Stadium. Jags vs. Colts: What fans need to know about gameday weather Read full article: Jags vs. Colts: What ...