The JRB presents an excerpt from the rediscovered classic The Maroons, first published in 1844 and released for the first…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Days Come and Go by Hemley Boum, now available in English. Days Come and…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Why Do You Dance When You Walk by Djiboutian novelist Abdourahman A Waberi, winner…
The thirteen novels longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize have been revealed. This year’s longlist includes work translated into…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, out now in a new edition….
It happens that words become too inconsistent to communicate shock. Not that we can’t guess at the terrifying explosion, whose…
The six finalists for the 2020 Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique have been announced. The prize aims to promote…
The JRB Editorial Advisory Panel member James Murua reports back from his trip to the Salon du Livre de Mayotte, which took place…
Turkish author Ahmet Sait Akçay chats to Indo-Mauritian poet Moshumee T Dewoo about being denied Africanness, the hypocrisy of religion,…
The longlisted books for the 2020 International Booker Prize have been revealed, featuring translations from eight languages, originating in Europe,…
Exclusive to The JRB, we present three new short stories from the Goethe-Institut Afro Young Adult anthology, Water Birds on…
In the October issue of The JRB, we present three new short stories from the Goethe-Institut Afro Young Adult anthology,…
In the October issue of The JRB, we present three new short stories from the Goethe-Institut Afro Young Adult anthology,…
In the October issue of The JRB, we present three new short stories from the Goethe-Institut Afro Young Adult anthology,…
Djiboutian author Abdourahman Waberi talks to RFI Djiboutian author Abdourahman Waberi spoke to Radio France Internationale recently about his life growing…
Tracing the memory of bones, ‘a long thread of words that attempted to fulfil the universe’—Lara Buxbaum reviews The Old…
Every French-speaking traveller knows it better than anyone else: the French language is the same, but each time different, on…
Alain Mabanckou’s new novel, Les cigognes sont immortelles, spans three important days in the life of a Congolese boy from…
In their Summer issue, Asymptote Journal features new poetry from Congolese author Fiston Mwanza Mujila. Eschewing the more chaotic and…
The French language is notoriously conservative. There is even a congregation of very serious people—l’Académie française—that decides how the language…
Artist William Kentridge and author Denis Hirson appeared in a public conversation at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, in February, to…
French President Emmanuel Macron has made his support of the French language, Francophonie and the French-speaking world (especially the African…
Radio France Internationale’s series of radio plays of contemporary Francophone literature, « Ça va, ça va le monde ! »…
The French-language literary tradition distinguishes between ‘French’ or ‘hexagonal’ literature, written by authors born in France (the hexagon), and ‘Francophone’…
La Shamba is a newly launched South to South writing collaboration project bringing a diversity of language and viewpoints to…
