A Ghanaian-born poet; a chronicler of the Cuban refugee experience; and an experimental artist "writing between genres" are this year's winners.

Film Independent has chosen the recipients of the 2025 Amplifier Fellowship, a program designed to support emerging and ...

This weapon assists us in defining such things as the African book and the African writer, which is the basis of this piece.

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

Like all South African writers of his generation, he was faced with something of a creative crisis when apartheid was ...

Athol Fugard, who has died aged 92, was widely acclaimed as one of South Africa's greatest playwrights. The son of an ...

For Togolese writer Sami Tchak, it is important to have a fair that focuses on African writers and themes, to celebrate what is "rare" in the world, and to "zero in on special talents", he says.

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

Vivid Sydney and the Sydney Writers’ Festival are joining forces for three events – ” Dreams of The Future, Why We Sleep, ...