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    What It’s Like To … Build and Run a Pan-African Bookstore in Nairobi
    What It's Like To...
    16 April 2025

    What It’s Like To … Build and Run a Pan-African Bookstore in Nairobi

    Kenya’s Muthoni Muiruri on co-founding Soma Nami, Nairobi’s only female-owned Pan-African bookstore, and creating space for African literature to thrive.

    How Noname's Book Club is Bridging the Black Diaspora
    News
    14 April 2025

    How Noname's Book Club is Bridging the Black Diaspora

    The Chicago rapper's community-centered book club has expanded from U.S. prisons to Kenya and Nigeria, creating spaces for Black readers to connect through literature.

    A collection of books by African authors with colorful covers.
    Arts + Culture
    11 December 2024

    Review This Year in Books With the Best African Literature of 2024

    Brittle Paper has unveiled their yearly celebration of the best African storytelling: 100 books that made an impact across genres and countries.

    A poster for ‘Yasuke: Way of the Butterfly’ showing Yasuke stretching his sword.
    Literature
    29 November 2024

    ‘Yasuke: Way of the Butterfly’ Tells the Origin Story of a Real-Life African Samurai

    The story of the first Black samurai, who’s often wrongly portrayed as a slave, is told from an African perspective for the first time in the South African graphic novel ‘Yasuke: Way of the Butterfly.’

    Here are 10 Recent Books from Black South African Women Writers That You Need to Read
    Arts + Culture
    22 August 2024

    Here are 10 Recent Books from Black South African Women Writers That You Need to Read

    These 10 powerful books by Black South African women writers offer a compelling lens on Black women’s complex realities and triumphs in today’s world.

    An image from the comic book series, Jember, created by Etan of a superhero with some lightning bolt rays emanating from him
    Arts + Culture
    03 February 2023

    Ethiopia’s First Superhero Comic is Going Global

    Etan Comics is launching a kids version of the kickstarter-backed title, which will be published in 11 languages.

    Roye Okupe headshot
    Film + TV
    30 September 2022

    Roye Okupe is Championing African Representation in Animation

    We spoke with Roye Okupe about his studio, Iyanu getting adapted into an animated series, and storytelling for an African audience.

    Damilare Kuku
    Arts + Culture
    01 July 2022

    Damilare Kuku on How Real Life Inspired Her Hit Novel ‘Nearly All The Men in Lagos Are Mad’

    OkayAfrica spoke to author Damilare Kuku about her salient breakout novel ‘Nearly All The Men in Lagos Are Mad.’

    Queer woman holding books
    Arts + Culture
    13 June 2022

    10 African LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride Month

    We combined a list of thought provoking books from poetry, fiction, and memoir to help you through your pride month.

    An image of people sitting in a circle having a book club meeting
    Arts + Culture
    06 April 2022

    How This Nigerian Book Club is Spreading Joy through Literature

    The founders of Book O'clock in Sokoto aim to share their love of African books in a part of Nigeria where an appreciation of literature isn't often encouraged.

    An image of a woman taking a selfie in front of a shelf of books
    Arts + Culture
    09 March 2022

    Africa's Bookstagrammers are Carving Out a Space for the Continent's Authors

    Growing communities of social media users, spread all over the continent, are evolving into a major powerhouse for African literature.

    Etan Comics Retell Ethiopia's History Through Animation
    Arts + Culture
    03 November 2021

    Etan Comics Retell Ethiopia's History Through Animation

    Creator Beserat Debebe's newest release, Zufan, fictionalizes Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in a narrative fit for the whole family.

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