As a novel centred on lesbian love set in an intensely homophobic country, These Letters End in Tears by Musih…
The JRB presents an extract from ‘It Just Kills You Inside’, excerpted from Walking on Cowrie Shells, the debut short…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Days Come and Go by Hemley Boum, now available in English. Days Come and…
I cannot count the number of times I’ve read the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s viral Granta essay, ‘How to write about…
For Francis on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. I met Francis B Nyamnjoh, now a world-renowned professor of social…
The JRB presents an excerpt from In the Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo, out now in a new edition….
The JRB presents an excerpt from African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other. African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the OtherFotofestSchilt…
This December marked the The JRB’s forty-second issue, the final issue of our fourth volume. With the new year just…
This longlist for the seventh annual Short Story Day Africa Prize has been announced! The prize was founded in 2013,…
I am a Western visa rejection expert. Three times—even though I work at an airport. But I am mostly a…
It happens that words become too inconsistent to communicate shock. Not that we can’t guess at the terrifying explosion, whose…
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Djiboutian author Abdourahman Waberi talks to RFI Djiboutian author Abdourahman Waberi spoke to Radio France Internationale recently about his life growing…
Munyal, les larmes de la patience by Cameroonian author Djaïli Amadou Amal has won the first Prix Orange du livre…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon, a collection of short stories forthcoming…
The six finalists for the Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique have been revealed. The new prize was announced late…
The longlist for the Short Story Day Africa Prize for Short Fiction has been announced. The prize was founded in…
Ivorian author Véronique Tadjo has been announced as the head judge of the new Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique…
Achille Mbembe’s vision is a guide to the revolution that stands on the other side of revolution, writes Imraan Coovadia. Critique…
The JRB is proud to present an exclusive excerpt from the graphic novel An Eternity in Tangiers, by Ivorian illustrator…
The longlist for the Short Story Day Africa Prize for Short Fiction has been announced. The prize is worth $1,000…
Six African authors have made the longlist for the International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for…
Since August, Congolese-French author Alain Mabanckou has been posting enigmatic pictures and tweeting with the hashtag #RevolutionBassinDuCongo (samples below). Known…
Main image: Bongani Madondo photographed by JRB Photo Editor Victor Dlamini To celebrate their seventh anniversary, Brittle Paper recently launched the…
Swing Time Zadie Smith Penguin Books 2016 Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue HarperCollins 2017 1. Zadie Smith’s new novel, Swing…
