African literature

Writing Africa’s Future in New Characters

Meet the Ńdébé Script

Wading Through Chale Wote

Perhaps this is what it means to host a successful street art festival: people will come in large numbers, do whatever they want, and even ignore the art. Freedom.

A House for Mr. Soyinka

If the estate's location deep in the bush inconvenienced his visitors, he clearly delighted in their discomfort.

Bessie Head: A Life of Letters

She was an insatiable correspondent, whether writing from her home in District Six in Cape Town, or in the two-roomed house in Serowe, Botswana she called “Rain Clouds.”