70 Best African Literature Blogs & Websites
African Literature Blogs
Here are 70 Best African Literature Blogs you should follow in 2023
1. Brittle Paper | An African Literary Blog
Chicago, Illinois, US
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. more
brittlepaper.com
27K 32.5K 14.1K 3 posts / day Aug 2010 DA 53 Get Email Contact
2. All Africa | Books
South Africa
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.more
allafrica.com/books
272.4K 481.7K 9 posts / month DA 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 in...teract.more
africainwords.com
2.1K 9.4K 189 1 post / week Oct 2011 DA 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 border...s of nation-states and associate themselves with a cutting-edge pan-African vision.more
chimurengachronic...
9.1K 489 4.1K 5 posts / month DA 49 Get Email Contact
5. ACEworld Publishers
Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria
Your No. 1 page for latest opportunity, education and literary news.
aceworldpub.com.ng
1.6K 523 9 posts / day DA 23 Get Email Contact
6. Open Country Mag
Africa
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.more
opencountrymag.com
3.4K 1.1K 4 posts / month DA 8 Get Email Contact
7. PEN South Africa
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....more
pensouthafrica.co.za
2.7K 5.6K 1 post / month DA 33 Get Email Contact
8. Arts Lounge
Nigeria
Covers articles on promoting literature from Africa and the Diaspora. Arts Lounge believes Literature is a tool for radical, positive change in societ...y, and in the fight against stereotypes; therein lies our dedication and drive.more
artsloungenyc.com
3.6K 5 posts / month DA 9 Get Email Contact
9. Mocha Girls Read | Blog by a group of Black Women
Los Angeles, California, US
We are a group of Black women who love to read, want to read more and meet like minded women.
mochagirlsread.com
7.2K 7.4K 7.5K 3 posts / day DA 32 Get Email Contact
10. Writers Space Africa
South Africa
Writers Space Africa is an international literary magazine, which features rich diversity of writings from African writers to a global audience.
writersspace.net
2.7K 2.5K 9 posts / week DA 11 Get Email Contact
11. Africa Access | Expanding Perspectives on Africa Book by Book
Washington, District of Columbia, US
Africa Access Review, our online database, contains over annotations and reviews of children's books about Africa published in the U.S. Our review...s are written by university professors, librarians, and teachers most of whom have lived in Africa and have graduate degrees in African Studies.more
africaaccessreview..
734 344 7 posts / quarter DA 35 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 exi...sts primarily to facilitate the attempts of a world-wide audience to appreciate the efforts of African writers and artists.more
africanlit.org
5.2K 2K 1 post / week DA 39 Get Email Contact
13. African Writer Magazine
New Jersey, US
African Writer Magazine is a New Jersey-based monthly celebrating African Literature & Writers.
africanwriter.com
179 5 posts / week DA 37 Get Email Contact
14. Jalada Africa | A pan-African writers' collective
South Africa
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 an...y member to publish anything or execute any literary project as quickly and effectively as possible.more
jaladaafrica.org
11.3K 11.5K 4 posts / year DA 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 prom...ote Nigerian writing, acting as a support base for young Nigerian writers and providing client-customized publishing services at competitive rates.more
wrr.ng
6.6K 3.4K 1 post / week DA 22 Get Email Contact
16. Playground of Randomness | A lifestyle and book blog
Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
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 an...d shopping. I'm from sunny South Africa.more
playgroundofrandom..
75 586 290 2 posts / month Feb 2016 DA 13 Get Email Contact
17. uHlanga
South Africa
uHlanga focuses on publishing single-author collections. We also publish a small number of edited anthologies and chapbooks. uHlanga was founded in 20...14 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.more
uhlangapress.co.za
1.5K 501 1.1K 1 post / month DA 32 Get Email Contact
18. 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
339 454 1 post / month DA 7 Get Email Contact
19. 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 vari...ous Publishers and Independent authors so if you are looking for an honest review of a new book then look no further.more
blackbooks2017.wor..
105 2 posts / week DA 19 Get Email Contact
20. Librettong
Nigeria
LIBRETTO is a publishing company, bookstore & and Africa's finest online magazine of arts and publishing that aims to publish the works of new/eme...rged 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.more
librettong.com
1K 836 472 1 post / month DA 9 Get Email Contact
21. PAROUSIA Magazine
Nigeria
Africa's First Christian Arts And Literary Magazine. our vision is to be a platform where the arts and literature would be made available, reachin...g nations, covering the earth.more
parousiamagazine.w..
1.7K 428 163 9 posts / quarter DA 8 Get Email Contact
22. THE LEO NATION
Zimbabwe
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 a...nd rare, are shared here.more
leomuzivoreva.word..
529 15 posts / year DA 6 Get Email Contact
23. EBOquills
Nigeria
EBOquills is a literary platform, which aside from promoting African Literature, seeks to be a clinic for creatives and a spa for stressed and distres...sed 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.more
eboquills.com
2.2K 205 2 posts / month DA 4 Get Email Contact
24. Nigerian Stories
Enugu, Nigeria
Angelica Uwaezuoke, a medical student at the University of Nigeria, is an astute writer, a conversationalist and a serial entrepreneur. She mentors ma...ny young writers and heads several editorial boards. A great blog for exciting short Nigerian fiction that leaves you wanting for more.more
nigerianstories.com
4.1K 1 post / month Aug 2020 DA 1 Get Email Contact
25. 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 confere...nces and highlights the latest articles, interviews and bookreviews related to African literature, drama or criticism.more
africabooklink.com..
2 posts / year DA 19 Get Email Contact
26. 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.more
afrinotes.net/arti..
530 3 11 posts / quarter DA 1 Get Email Contact
27. Africa Writes Blog
London, England, UK
The Africa Writes festival is an annual celebration of contemporary literature from Africa and the diaspora brought to you by The Royal African Societ...y. Africa Writes aims to enhance coverage and discussion about African literature and writers in London - and the UK, by extension. more
africawrites.org/c..
13.8K 10.3K 7K DA 42 Get Email Contact
28. KZN Literary Tourism
Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
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.more
literarytourism.co.za
674 542 DA 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 conn...ect and grow in conversation.more
wellreadblackgirl.com
42.9K 67.6K 426K DA 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 Nig...erian writers of all skill levels and readers of both genre novels and literary fiction. more
naijastories.com
1.2K 1.5K 6 posts / year DA 40 Get Email Contact
31. Books LIVE | Book Reviews
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
South African, African and international books and literature news, as it happens. Web network and news source for southern African writers and publis...hers.more
bookslive.co.za/ca..
11.4K 22.2K DA 58 Get Email Contact
32. Saraba Magazine
Nigeria
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 se...veral issues of a magazine, editions of poetry chapbooks, and online-only work.more
sarabamag.com
6.6K 7.5K DA 40 Get Email Contact
33. African American Literature Book Club Blog
Harlem, Georgia, US
AALBC are the largest and most popular website dedicated to African American books and Black literature from around the world. We celebrate Black cult...ure, through books, for readers of all backgrounds to enjoy. Follow this blog to know more about African American Literature Books.more
aalbc.com/blog
7.1K 1.5K 1 post / week Dec 2004 DA 62 Get Email Contact
34. 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.more
caineprize.com/blog
10K 18.7K 1.5K 2 posts / week DA 53 Get Email Contact
35. Africa Book Club | Africa's best books and more
South Africa
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, compet...itions and giveaways, reviews, and posts about Africa's established and emerging writers. more
africabookclub.com
5.2K 3.7K DA 37 Get Email Contact
36. Bookshy | An Africa book lover
London, England, UK
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. more
bookshybooks.com
649 3.9K DA 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.more
afreada.com
1.6K 13.5K 6.3K DA 31 Get Email Contact
38. James Murua's Literature Blog
Nairobi, Nairobi City, Kenya
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.more
jamesmurua.com
2 22 1.7K 5 posts / week DA 40 Get Email Contact
39. Kinna Reads
Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
I love books, reading, nurturing and developing my appreciation for the art form. I read mostly fiction, both contemporary and classic. I really enj...oy world literature. I'm partial to women writers and their works, especially African women writers.more
kinnareads.com
105 9.5K 668 DA 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 experienc...e thr best of what African Literature has to offer.more
syncityng.com
24K 9.1K 10.9K DA 16 Get Email Contact
41. The Book Club Blog
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
At The Book Club Blog we read books. Many of them, and we share bookish information.
thebookclubblog.co.za
359 111 Sep 2009 DA 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, poe...try, children's books, health and lifestyle management, writers from Africa and the Caribbean--the whole of the Diaspora, the whole of our experience.more
qbrbookreview.com
841 921 DA 34 Get Email Contact
43. African Book Addict
Boston, Massachusetts, US
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 mi...d-2014 and its dedicated to celebrating BLACK literature through book reviews, book chats with fellow readers & writers, book hauls and more.more
africanbookaddict.com
2.1K 3.4K 4 posts / year Jun 2014 DA 33 Get Email Contact
44. Wawa Book Review
South Africa
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.more
wawabookreview.com
532 4K DA 17 Get Email Contact
45. 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.more
newbooksnigeria.wo..
2.2K 1.3K DA 18 Get Email Contact
46. Maisha Yetu
Nairobi
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 publi...shing industry.more
kenyanbooks.wordpr..
917 DA 15 Get Email Contact
47. Incessant Scribble | An African Literary Blog
Harlingen, Texas, US
An African Literary Blog. Book Reviews | Author Interviews | Short Stories from the continent of Africa.
osonduawaraka.blog..
15.9K 72 DA 16 Get Email Contact
48. The Namse Chronicles
Kaduna, Nigeria
Namse's perspectives on love, socio-cultural issues and life in general.
thenamsechronicles..
2.7K 1 post / quarter DA 2 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...
4 posts / quarter DA 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 upcom...ing African writers. We at The African Book Review are excited to watch as more people become acquainted with and intimately connected to African Literature.more
theafricanbookrevi..
480 324 1 post / month DA 24 Get Email Contact
51. Loudink | The Best of Africa, Home of Art, Culture and Inspiration
Zambia
Loudink.net is a knowledge, entertainment poetic site full of Art, Culture and Inspiration. Artists can share their passion, honor feelings, provoke t...hought.more
loudink.net
2.4K 3.2K 480 15 posts / year DA 5 Get Email Contact
52. Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu
Nigeria
I am Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu. I write stuff about things and things about stuff. Poetrenuer, Blogger, Author-Graphic/Web Developer, Writing Coach an...d eBook Publisher.more
stefnsylvester.com
DA 12 Get Email Contact
53. Sooo Many Stories Blog | The Home of Ugandan Literature
Kampala, Uganda
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. more
somanystories.ug/blog
3.8K DA 19 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.more
sawn.co.za/soap-bo..
297 DA 26 Get Email Contact
55. Black & Bookish Blog
Los Angeles, California, US
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.more
blackandbookish.co..
452 541 9.2K 1 post / year Jan 2016 DA 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
484 DA 1 Get Email Contact
57. Sprinkle storiez
Literature and lifestyle blog by Literary Activist Veralynchinenye.
sprinklestoriez.bl..
1.3K Dec 2017 DA 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 an...d 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.more
amashiwii.wordpres..
DA 3 Get Email Contact
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
DA 1 Get Email Contact
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 th...at 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 languagesmore
africanstreetliter..
1 post / month DA 1 Get Email Contact
61. Literary Intelligence
Lagos, Ogun State, Nigeria
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.more
litintelligence.org
3 posts / year Feb 2020 DA 1 Get Email Contact
African Literature Bloggers
Blogger Name | Blog Link | Total Blog Posts | |
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Othuke Veno | aceworldpub.com.ng | 416 | |
sam oluwarantimi | aceworldpub.com.ng | 90 | |
Kuhelika Ghosh | brittlepaper.com | 84 | |
Mocha Girl Alysia | mochagirlsread.com | 77 | |
Writers Space Africa | writersspace.net | 71 | |
artslounge | artsloungenyc.com | 34 | |
James Murua | jamesmurua.com | 31 | |
Brittle Paper | brittlepaper.com | 22 | |
Eboquills | eboquills.com | 19 | |
TheLeoNation | leomuzivoreva.wordpress.com | 16 | |
Vivian | mochagirlsread.com | 11 | |
Chukwuebuka Ibeh | brittlepaper.com | 10 | |
PEN South Africa | pensouthafrica.co.za | 9 | |
Sam Awa | afrinotes.net | 9 | |
Parousia Magazine | parousiamagazine.wordpress.com | 9 | |
ShaniceSingh | playgroundofrandomness.co.za | 8 | |
Chimurenga | chimurengachronic.co.za | 7 | |
Chronic | chimurengachronic.co.za | 5 | |
Alesia Alexander | brittlepaper.com | 5 | |
reluctantmemsahib | reluctantmemsahib.wordpress.com | 4 | |
ACEworld Publishers | aceworldpub.com.ng | 4 | |
namselicious | thenamsechronicles.wordpress.com | 4 | |
Africa in Words Guest | africainwords.com | 4 | |
Paula Willie-Okafor | opencountrymag.com | 4 | |
Otosirieze | opencountrymag.com | 3 | |
Idongesit Etim | afrinotes.net | 3 | |
Dan Lenington | africanlit.org | 3 | |
Olubunmi Oni | africanwriter.com | 2 | |
Ainehi Edoro | brittlepaper.com | 2 | |
Matthew Brown | africanlit.org | 2 | |
Otosirieze Obi-Young | opencountrymag.com | 1 | |
Yanjanani L. Banda | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Ritah Tumushabe | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Yandisa Krobani | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Winifred Òdúnóku | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu | opencountrymag.com | 1 | |
Masimba Musodza | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Tolu' A. Akinyemi | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Uchenna Emelife | opencountrymag.com | 1 | |
Ugochukwu Anadị | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Ike Aro | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Abigail George | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Adedamola Ruqayyah Aderibigbe | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Africa in Words | africainwords.com | 1 | |
Alexis Langendorf | africanlit.org | 1 | |
Augustine Muwega | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Creative Africa | opencountrymag.com | 1 | |
Eliongema Udofia | africanwriter.com | 1 | |
Emmanuel Esomnofu | opencountrymag.com | 1 | |
Enit'ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya | africanwriter.com | 1 |