50 Best African Literature Blogs & Websites in 2024

1. Brittle Paper | An African Literary Blog

Welcome to Brittle Paper, your go-to site for African writing and literary culture. We bring you all the latest news and juicy updates on publications, authors, events, prizes, and lifestyle.
Blog brittlepaper.com
Facebook Followers 27KTwitter Followers 17.2KInstagram Followers 15.7K Frequency 2 posts / day Since Aug 2010 Domain Authority 53 Get Email Contact Get Influential Bloggers ContactsGet access to 250k active Bloggers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the type of bloggers you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share blogger's data in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. All Africa | Books

AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 700 news and information items daily from over 140 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public.
Blog allafrica.com
Facebook Followers 272.4KTwitter Followers 390.8K Frequency 4 posts / week Domain Authority 82 Get Email Contact

3. Africa in Words

Africa in Words is a blog focusing on cultural production and Africa. We cover books, art, film, history, music, ideas and people and the ways they interact.
Blog africainwords.com
Facebook Followers 2.1KTwitter Followers 7.1KInstagram Followers 1.8K Frequency 12 posts / quarter Since Oct 2011 Domain Authority 45 Get Email Contact

4. The Chimurenga Chronic

Based in Africa, but with a global reach, the Chronic is an ideal platform for institutions, organisations and brands looking to get beyond the borders of nation-states and associate themselves with a cutting-edge pan-African vision.
Blog chimurengachronic.co.za
Facebook Followers 9.1KTwitter Followers 542Instagram Followers 10.5K Frequency 3 posts / month Domain Authority 49 Get Email Contact

5. ACEworld Publishers

Your No. 1 page for latest opportunity, education and literary news.
Blog aceworldpub.com.ng
Facebook Followers 1.6KTwitter Followers 479 Frequency 13 posts / week Domain Authority 23 Get Email Contact

6. Open Country Mag

Open Country Mag is a multiplatform space for African literature. We exist to record literary culture in Africa; to make the deep archives of literary resources, data, and history available for use anywhere, from general reading to academia; and, crucially, to be a ladder for the next generation of African writers, thinkers, literary journalists, and curators, to provide necessary tools in their development.
Blog opencountrymag.com
Twitter Followers 1.8KInstagram Followers 1.2K Frequency 3 posts / month Domain Authority 8 Get Email Contact

7. PEN South Africa

PEN South Africa represents the writers of southern and South Africa. We celebrate literature, defend freedom of expression, and aid writers in prison.
Blog pensouthafrica.co.za
Facebook Followers 2.7KTwitter Followers 4.3K Frequency 23 posts / year Domain Authority 33 Get Email Contact

8. Arts Lounge

Covers articles on promoting literature from Africa and the Diaspora. Arts Lounge believes Literature is a tool for radical, positive change in society, and in the fight against stereotypes; therein lies our dedication and drive.
Blog artsloungenyc.com
Facebook Followers 3.6K Frequency 5 posts / month Domain Authority 9 Get Email Contact

9. Mocha Girls Read | Blog by a group of Black Women

We are a group of Black women who love to read, want to read more and meet like minded women.
Blog mochagirlsread.com
Facebook Followers 7.2KTwitter Followers 6.1KInstagram Followers 7.8K Frequency 2 posts / week Domain Authority 32 Get Email Contact

10. Writers Space Africa

Writers Space Africa is an international literary magazine, which features rich diversity of writings from African writers to a global audience.
Blog writersspace.net
Facebook Followers 2.7KTwitter Followers 857 Frequency 3 posts / day Domain Authority 11 Get Email Contact

11. Africa Access | Expanding Perspectives on Africa Book by Book

Africa Access Review, our online database, contains over annotations and reviews of children's books about Africa published in the U.S. Our reviews are written by university professors, librarians, and teachers most of whom have lived in Africa and have graduate degrees in African Studies.
Blog africaaccessreview.org
Facebook Followers 734Twitter Followers 366 Frequency 22 posts / week Domain Authority 35 Get Email Contact

12. The Caine Prize for African Writing

The Caine Prize for African Writing is a registered charity whose aim is to bring African writing to a wider audience using our annual literary award. In addition to administering the Prize, we work to connect readers with African writers through a series of public events, as well as helping emerging writers in Africa to enter the world of mainstream publishing.
Blog caineprize.com
Facebook Followers 10KTwitter Followers 12.9KInstagram Followers 4.1K Frequency 2 posts / year Domain Authority 53 Get Email Contact

13. African Literature Association

The African Literature Association is an independent non-profit professional society open to scholars, teachers and writers from every country. It exists primarily to facilitate the attempts of a world-wide audience to appreciate the efforts of African writers and artists.
Blog africanlit.org
Facebook Followers 5.2KTwitter Followers 1K Frequency 2 posts / quarter Domain Authority 39 Get Email Contact

14. Jalada Africa | A pan-African writers' collective

Jalada Africa is pan-African writers collective. Our aim is to publish literature by African authors regularly by making it as easy as possible for any member to publish anything or execute any literary project as quickly and effectively as possible.
Blog jaladaafrica.org
Facebook Followers 11.3KTwitter Followers 9.6K Frequency 10 posts / year Domain Authority 34 Get Email Contact

15. WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM

We are a foremost Nigerian publishing and educational institution. The culture of helping each other grow has become our strength, as we actively promote Nigerian writing, acting as a support base for young Nigerian writers and providing client-customized publishing services at competitive rates.
Blog wrr.ng
Facebook Followers 6.6KInstagram Followers 3.4K Frequency 12 posts / month Domain Authority 22 Get Email Contact

16. PAROUSIA Magazine

Africa's First Christian Arts And Literary Magazine. our vision is to be a platform where the arts and literature would be made available, reaching nations, covering the earth.
Blog parousiamagazine.wordpress.com
Facebook Followers 1.7KTwitter Followers 428Instagram Followers 1.1K Frequency 3 posts / quarter Domain Authority 8 Get Email Contact

17. African Book Addict

My name is Darkowaa and I am a Ghanaian-American, currently living where my heart feels most at home, Accra, Ghana. African Book Addict was created mid-2014 and its dedicated to celebrating BLACK literature through book reviews, book chats with fellow readers & writers, book hauls and more.
Blog africanbookaddict.com
Twitter Followers 1.9KInstagram Followers 5.6K Frequency 1 post / month Since Jun 2014 Domain Authority 33 Get Email Contact

18. Playground of Randomness | A lifestyle and book blog

My name is Shanice Singh and I,m an English major. I enjoy reading, writing, watching TV and good clothes. I have an unhealthy obsession with books and shopping. I'm from sunny South Africa.
Blog playgroundofrandomness.co.za
Facebook Followers 75Twitter Followers 586Instagram Followers 10 Frequency 2 posts / month Since Feb 2016 Domain Authority 13 Get Email Contact

19. Librettong

LIBRETTO is a publishing company, bookstore & and Africa's finest online magazine of arts and publishing that aims to publish the works of new/emerged and established writers and artists and all kinds of literary electronic publication and distribution of EBook across Africa and the world at large. We aim to publish fine and qualified works considering race and themes. We so much believe that literature and arts should be celebrated for their aesthetics. We want to inform, educate, exposing morals and ideals. We also define new voices as those with qualities, new themes, styles, and forms.
Blog librettong.com
Facebook Followers 1KTwitter Followers 748Instagram Followers 493 Frequency 9 posts / quarter Domain Authority 9 Get Email Contact

20. uHlanga

uHlanga focuses on publishing single-author collections. We also publish a small number of edited anthologies and chapbooks. uHlanga was founded in 2014 as a magazine of poetry from KwaZulu-Natal. Our books have won most major South African and African poetry awards, including three Ingrid Jonker Prizes for Poetry in English, and more.
Blog uhlangapress.co.za
Facebook Followers 1.5KTwitter Followers 387Instagram Followers 1.1K Frequency 3 posts / year Domain Authority 32 Get Email Contact

21. The Namse Chronicles

Namse's perspectives on love, socio-cultural issues and life in general.
Blog thenamsechronicles.wordpress.com
Twitter Followers 2.7K Frequency 2 posts / week Domain Authority 2 Get Email Contact

22. THE LEO NATION

A warm welcome to TheLeoNation, a land of non-fictional chronicles, debacles and anecdotes on life as an African literate, the ups and downs, common and rare, are shared here.
Blog leomuzivoreva.wordpress.com
Twitter Followers 491 Frequency 3 posts / quarter Domain Authority 6 Get Email Contact

23. Africa Book Link | New African literature, drama & criticism

The Africa Book Link is a newsletter, primarily announcing new and forthcoming African literature, drama and criticism. Secondly, it announces conferences and highlights the latest articles, interviews and bookreviews related to African literature, drama or criticism.
Blog africabooklink.com
Frequency 2 posts / quarter Domain Authority 19 Get Email Contact

24. Afrinotes

Afrinotes publishes book reviews, critical essays, summaries and analyses of African literary works. Our aim is to make reference materials on African literary works and other educational materials available to both students and researchers who are curious to know more about the African world.
Blog afrinotes.net
Facebook Followers 571Twitter Followers 1 Frequency 1 post / month Domain Authority 1 Get Email Contact

25. EBOquills

EBOquills is a literary platform, which aside from promoting African Literature, seeks to be a clinic for creatives and a spa for stressed and distressed artists. We want to take hundreds of writers from the shadows and place them in the spotlight. Because we know that writing is a sojourn on a long lonely lane and it is difficult to stay sane with overdoses of silence and solitude. This is why we want to walk willing writers down this lane, offer pieces of advice, churn out writing prompts, and simply be a reliable support system.
Blog eboquills.com
Facebook Followers 2.2KTwitter Followers 164 Frequency 6 posts / quarter Domain Authority 4 Get Email Contact

26. Sprinkle storiez

Literature and lifestyle blog by Literary Activist Veralynchinenye.
Blog sprinklestoriez.blogspot.com
Instagram Followers 1.3K Frequency 1 post / week Since Dec 2017 Domain Authority 3 Get Email Contact

27. MahoganyBooks | African American Literature Blog

MahoganyBooks is an online bookstore that believes in social entrepreneurship. We take a leadership role in the community promoting African American literature, reading, writing, and cultural awareness as tools to improve communities as well as enrich the lives of motivated individuals.
Blog blog.mahoganybooks.com+ Follow
Facebook Followers 16.3KTwitter Followers 15K Since Aug 2014 Domain Authority 39 Get Email Contact

28. KZN Literary Tourism

Through KZN Literary Tourism we aim to provide an invaluable resource for those interested in the relatively new field of Literary Tourism as well as provide information on the work we are currently doing from our base in Durban, South Africa. KZN Literary Tourism is a resource for those interested in books.
Blog literarytourism.co.za
Facebook Followers 674Twitter Followers 565 Domain Authority 31 Get Email Contact

29. Well-Read Black Girl

Well-Read Black Girl celebrates the phenomenal Black women on our bookshelves. WRBG provides a vital space for Black women readers and writers to connect and grow in conversation.
Blog wellreadblackgirl.com
Facebook Followers 42.9KTwitter Followers 54.6KInstagram Followers 425.3K Domain Authority 47 Get Email Contact

30. Naija Stories

Promoting Nigerian Reading and Writing. Naija Stories is a website set up and committed to promoting Nigerian Fiction. We are a social network for Nigerian writers of all skill levels and readers of both genre novels and literary fiction.
Blog naijastories.com
Facebook Followers 1.2KTwitter Followers 1.5K Domain Authority 40 Get Email Contact