His characters – tramps, discarded people, poor people, people on the fringes – are connected with all the people we know of ...

Athol Fugard, who has died aged 92, was widely acclaimed as one of South Africa's greatest playwrights. The son of an Afrikaner mother, he was best known for his politically charged plays challenging ...

Three African screenwriters who took part in the AuthenticA Series Lab will pitch new genre projects at the Series Mania ...

In March 1986 the president of Burkina Faso, who hid his books in trunks to avoid revealing himself, granted a very personal ...

Binyavanga was a great Kenyan. Like Chinua Achebe before him, Binyavanga will be remembered for helping to initiate and promote literary production by a new breed of Kenyan and African writers.

In the earliest days of Africans, before the advent of colonialism, African society was rooted in oral literature, to pass down histories, teach values, and also entertain. Among the Yorubas of ...