70 Best African Literature Blogs & Websites

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.
brittlepaper.com
Facebook Followers 27KTwitter Followers 32.5KInstagram Followers 15.4K Frequency 2 posts / day Since Aug 2010 Domain Authority 53 Get Email Contact

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.
allafrica.com
Facebook Followers 272.4KTwitter Followers 481.7K 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.
africainwords.com
Facebook Followers 2.1KTwitter Followers 9.4KInstagram 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.
chimurengachronic.co.za
Facebook Followers 9.1KTwitter Followers 489Instagram Followers 10.1K Frequency 3 posts / month Domain Authority 49 Get Email Contact

5. ACEworld Publishers

Your No. 1 page for latest opportunity, education and literary news.
aceworldpub.com.ng
Facebook Followers 1.6KTwitter Followers 523 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.
opencountrymag.com
Twitter Followers 3.4KInstagram Followers 1.1K 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.
pensouthafrica.co.za
Facebook Followers 2.7KTwitter Followers 5.6K 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.
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.
mochagirlsread.com
Facebook Followers 7.2KTwitter Followers 7.4KInstagram Followers 7.7K Frequency 2 posts / week Domain Authority 32 Get Email Contact

10. 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.
africaaccessreview.org
Facebook Followers 734Twitter Followers 344 Frequency 22 posts / week Domain Authority 35 Get Email Contact

11. Writers Space Africa

Writers Space Africa is an international literary magazine, which features rich diversity of writings from African writers to a global audience.
writersspace.net
Facebook Followers 2.7KTwitter Followers 2.5K Frequency 3 posts / day Domain Authority 11 Get Email Contact

12. 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.
africanlit.org
Facebook Followers 5.2KTwitter Followers 2K Frequency 2 posts / quarter Domain Authority 39 Get Email Contact

13. 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.
caineprize.com
Facebook Followers 10KTwitter Followers 18.7KInstagram Followers 4.1K Frequency 2 posts / year Domain Authority 53 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.
jaladaafrica.org
Facebook Followers 11.3KTwitter Followers 11.5K 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.
wrr.ng
Facebook Followers 6.6KInstagram Followers 3.4K Frequency 12 posts / month Domain Authority 22 Get Email Contact

16. African Writer Magazine

African Writer Magazine is a New Jersey-based monthly celebrating African Literature & Writers.
africanwriter.com
Facebook Followers 179 Frequency 11 posts / quarter Domain Authority 37 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.
africanbookaddict.com
Twitter Followers 2.1KInstagram 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.
playgroundofrandomness.co.za
Facebook Followers 75Twitter Followers 586Instagram Followers 11 Frequency 2 posts / month Since Feb 2016 Domain Authority 13 Get Email Contact

19. 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.
parousiamagazine.wordpress.com
Facebook Followers 1.7KTwitter Followers 428Instagram Followers 1.1K Frequency 3 posts / quarter Domain Authority 8 Get Email Contact

20. 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.
librettong.com
Facebook Followers 1KTwitter Followers 836Instagram Followers 483 Frequency 9 posts / quarter Domain Authority 9 Get Email Contact

21. Black books blog

I will be reviewing all the books I read and also interviewing authors when they have book launches. I am also involved in lots of Blog tours for various Publishers and Independent authors so if you are looking for an honest review of a new book then look no further.
blackbooks2017.wordpress.com
Facebook Followers 105 Frequency 2 posts / quarter Domain Authority 19 Get Email Contact

22. The Namse Chronicles

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

23. 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.
leomuzivoreva.wordpress.com
Twitter Followers 529 Frequency 3 posts / quarter Domain Authority 6 Get Email Contact

24. 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.
africabooklink.com
Frequency 2 posts / quarter Domain Authority 19 Get Email Contact

25. Nigerian Stories

Angelica Uwaezuoke, a medical student at the University of Nigeria, is an astute writer, a conversationalist and a serial entrepreneur. She mentors many young writers and heads several editorial boards. A great blog for exciting short Nigerian fiction that leaves you wanting for more.
nigerianstories.com
Twitter Followers 4.1K Frequency 1 post / quarter Since Aug 2020 Domain Authority 1 Get Email Contact

26. 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.
eboquills.com
Facebook Followers 2.2KTwitter Followers 205 Frequency 6 posts / quarter Domain Authority 4 Get Email Contact

27. 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.
afrinotes.net
Facebook Followers 571Twitter Followers 3 Frequency 1 post / month Domain Authority 1 Get Email Contact

28. Africa Writes Blog

The Africa Writes festival is an annual celebration of contemporary literature from Africa and the diaspora brought to you by The Royal African Society. Africa Writes aims to enhance coverage and discussion about African literature and writers in London - and the UK, by extension.
africawrites.org
Facebook Followers 13.8KTwitter Followers 10.3KInstagram Followers 7.1K Domain Authority 42 Get Email Contact

29. 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.
literarytourism.co.za
Facebook Followers 674Twitter Followers 542 Domain Authority 31 Get Email Contact

30. 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.
wellreadblackgirl.com
Facebook Followers 42.9KTwitter Followers 67.6KInstagram Followers 425.4K Domain Authority 47 Get Email Contact

31. 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.
naijastories.com
Facebook Followers 1.2KTwitter Followers 1.5K Domain Authority 40 Get Email Contact

32. Books LIVE | Book Reviews

South African, African and international books and literature news, as it happens. Web network and news source for southern African writers and publishers.
bookslive.co.za
Facebook Followers 11.4KTwitter Followers 22.2K Domain Authority 58 Get Email Contact

33. Saraba Magazine

Saraba is a literary magazine focused on the work of new writers in Nigeria and other parts of the African continent. Since 2009, we have published several issues of a magazine, editions of poetry chapbooks, and online-only work.
sarabamag.com
Facebook Followers 6.6KTwitter Followers 7.5K Domain Authority 40 Get Email Contact

34. African American Literature Book Club Blog

AALBC are the largest and most popular website dedicated to African American books and Black literature from around the world. We celebrate Black culture, through books, for readers of all backgrounds to enjoy. Follow this blog to know more about African American Literature Books.
aalbc.com/blog
Twitter Followers 7.1KInstagram Followers 3K Frequency 1 post / year Since Dec 2004 Domain Authority 62 Get Email Contact

35. Africa Book Club | Africa's best books and more

Africa Book Club is a place to share your interest in African literature with people from all over the world. It features blog postings, news, competitions and giveaways, reviews, and posts about Africa's established and emerging writers.
africabookclub.com
Facebook Followers 5.2KTwitter Followers 3.7K Domain Authority 37 Get Email Contact

36. Bookshy | An Africa book lover

I fell in love with African literature, and I've been hooked ever since. Bookshy is my personal labour of love dedicated to African literature. It is a space where I celebrate, promote and recognise contemporary African literature - although sometimes I go back in time to commemorate the greats. It is about the books I love, the books I have read and the books that I am dying to read.
bookshybooks.com
Facebook Followers 649Twitter Followers 3.9K Domain Authority 33 Get Email Contact

37. AFREADA

AFREADA is an online literary magazine, featuring original short stories from emerging writers across the Continent. A fusion of the two words, Africa and Reader, we live for the well-crafted narratives and effortless reads that speak to our daily realities as Africans at home and abroad.
afreada.com
Facebook Followers 1.6KTwitter Followers 13.5KInstagram Followers 6.7K Domain Authority 31 Get Email Contact

38. James Murua's Literature Blog

JamesMurua.com was born on June 2013 to give news and reviews from the African literature scene. We specialize in telling you what work your favourite African writer is up to. That means that you will find news on news books, events like book launches, literary festivals, author profiles and more.
jamesmurua.com
Facebook Followers 2Twitter Followers 22Instagram Followers 1.7K Frequency 30 posts / year Domain Authority 40 Get Email Contact

39. Kinna Reads

I love books, reading, nurturing and developing my appreciation for the art form. I read mostly fiction, both contemporary and classic. I really enjoy world literature. I'm partial to women writers and their works, especially African women writers.
kinnareads.com
Facebook Followers 105Twitter Followers 9.5KInstagram Followers 668 Domain Authority 35 Get Email Contact

40. Syncityng | African Literary Blog

SynCity NG is an African Literary blog that publishes the best of African Literature; African stories, poetry, etc. At Syncity Ng you get to experience thr best of what African Literature has to offer.
syncityng.com
Facebook Followers 24KTwitter Followers 9.1KInstagram Followers 10.9K Domain Authority 16 Get Email Contact

41. The Book Club Blog

At The Book Club Blog we read books. Many of them, and we share bookish information.
thebookclubblog.co.za
Facebook Followers 359Twitter Followers 111 Since Sep 2009 Domain Authority 14 Get Email Contact

42. The Black Book Review Online | QBR

QBR is the first national book review exclusively dedicated to books about the African experience. In its pages you will find fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's books, health and lifestyle management, writers from Africa and the Caribbean--the whole of the Diaspora, the whole of our experience.
qbrbookreview.com
Twitter Followers 841Instagram Followers 1K Domain Authority 34 Get Email Contact

43. Wawa Book Review

Wawa Book Review focuses on the outputs of African publishers. We cannot review all books published by African publishers, not even all the important ones. We however will do as much as our generous, volunteer reviewers can manage. Review copies of newly published books are welcome. However, we cannot guarantee that we will review every book we receive.
wawabookreview.com
Facebook Followers 532Twitter Followers 4K Domain Authority 17 Get Email Contact

44. New Books Nigeria

New Book Nigeria is a portal of new creative writing out of Nigeria. We catalogue new books written by Nigerians or set significantly in Nigeria since 2011.
newbooksnigeria.wordpress.com
Facebook Followers 2.2KTwitter Followers 1.3K Domain Authority 18 Get Email Contact

45. Maisha Yetu

This site is run by Nairobi based journalist Joseph Ngunjiri. It focus on the arts in general but has quite a bit of information from the Kenyan publishing industry.
kenyanbooks.wordpress.com
Twitter Followers 917 Domain Authority 15 Get Email Contact

46. 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.
uhlangapress.co.za
Facebook Followers 1.5KTwitter Followers 501Instagram Followers 1.1K Frequency 3 posts / year Domain Authority 32 Get Email Contact

47. The Afro Reader

Our goal is to bridge the gap between literature books and those using digital media while working with the Sustainable Development Goals in mind.
theafroreader.com
Facebook Followers 363Twitter Followers 454 Frequency 2 posts / year Domain Authority 7 Get Email Contact

48. Incessant Scribble | An African Literary Blog

An African Literary Blog. Book Reviews | Author Interviews | Short Stories from the continent of Africa.
osonduawaraka.blogspot.com
Facebook Followers 15.9KTwitter Followers 72 Domain Authority 16 Get Email Contact

49. Reluctant Memsahib

A literary blog by an Africa-based journalist. The diary of wife, mother, and failed domestic goddess in Africa.
reluctantmemsahib.wordpress.com
Frequency 1 post / year Domain Authority 21 Get Email Contact

50. The African Book Review | Exploring African novels

The African Book Review exists to provide a platform that engages with African arts from a literacy perspective, exploring new, established, and upcoming African writers. We at The African Book Review are excited to watch as more people become acquainted with and intimately connected to African Literature.
theafricanbookreview.com
Facebook Followers 480Twitter Followers 324 Domain Authority 24 Get Email Contact

51. Loudink | The Best of Africa, Home of Art, Culture and Inspiration

Loudink.net is a knowledge, entertainment poetic site full of Art, Culture and Inspiration. Artists can share their passion, honor feelings, provoke thought.
loudink.net
Facebook Followers 2.5KTwitter Followers 3.2KInstagram Followers 474 Domain Authority 5 Get Email Contact

52. Sooo Many Stories Blog | The Home of Ugandan Literature

This site aims to show you our (Uganda) literature. To remind everyone that we are here, we are writing, we are reading and we have sooo many stories to tell.
somanystories.ug
Facebook Followers 3.8K Domain Authority 19 Get Email Contact

53. Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu

I am Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu. I write stuff about things and things about stuff. Poetrenuer, Blogger, Author-Graphic/Web Developer, Writing Coach and eBook Publisher.
stefnsylvester.com
Instagram Followers 1.9K Domain Authority 12 Get Email Contact

54. The South African Writers' Network

The South African Writers' Network serves as a platform from which authors and aspirant writers can explore the wealth of human information on the Internet and contribute to this burgeoning network culture.
sawn.co.za
Facebook Followers 297 Domain Authority 26 Get Email Contact

55. Black & Bookish Blog

Antoinette wanted to get closer to her history and culture, something that can easily slip away when you use the narrative of your oppressors. Black & Bookish was created to celebrate Black literature throughout the African Diaspora, tell the stories of Black people, and grow a global community behind those efforts.
blackandbookish.com
Facebook Followers 452Twitter Followers 526Instagram Followers 9.2K Since Jan 2016 Domain Authority 20 Get Email Contact

56. Bronze Empire

Bronze Empire is an amazing blog where you can read awesome stories, poems, comics and novels.
bronzeempire.com.ng
Facebook Followers 484 Domain Authority 1 Get Email Contact

57. Sprinkle storiez

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

58. AmashiWii Journal

Echoing new voices in Arts and Literature. The main objective of AmashiWii Journal is to create a platform for rising bards and creatives in Africa and the world at large. We seek to uplift the culture of literature, and reading and other Arts, especially in Africa where we've got so many stories to tell.
amashiwii.wordpress.com
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59. Daher Publications

This website was designed to help readers such as yourself to familiarize with my work and get to be up to date about my future projects.
dahersworld.com
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60. African Street Literatures Blog

African Street Literatures is a research project based at Uppsala University on emergent African writing. We are interested in the variety of forms that literature takes in African cities, from spoken word to chapbooks, blogs to street theatre, and all forms of print producing an emergent contemporary African literature. We aim to publish guest blogs on this material by African literary producers and academics in a variety of African languages
africanstreetliterature.wordpress.com
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61. Literary Intelligence

Literary Intelligence is an African literary blog, established with the aim of spreading African artful works everywhere, amidst propelling a channel for African writers and poets to be better in their craft.
litintelligence.org
Since Feb 2020 Domain Authority 1 Get Email Contact

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