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“EKOSIMBA” (Mlimani Editions) is a multilingual anthology of 63 poems by contemporary Congolese writers from the African continent and global Diaspora. Primarily translated into English, it will be released during Congo Week as a non-profit project. 63 POEMS, ONE MESSAGE: to increase visibility for the Congolese literary community, including both emerging and established writers, and […]

From September 18–20, 2026, the New York Black & African Literature Festival (NYBALF) returns to Harlem for its second edition. For a weekend of literature at close range, the Harlem Stage will bring together writers, poets, scholars, artists, and public thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean, the United States, and the wider Black diaspora. This year’s […]

OlongoAfrica Press is pleased to announce the publication of The New Anthology of Young African and African American Poetry, a collection that galvanizes emerging poets from Africa and the African American community/diaspora in a shared literary space. Since its inception, OlongoAfrica has recorded different literary successes and publications of new books as part of its […]

This July, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka turns 92. In his honour, Olongo Africa is making Ebrohimie Road: a Museum of Memory available to watch online for free for seven days. The documentary film, produced by OlongoAfrica, directed by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún and shot by veteran filmmaker Tunde Kelani examines how the personal story of one man […]

Free four-month program for poets and writers from Nigeria, Africa, and the diaspora launches with faculty including Nick Makoha, Titilope Sonuga, and Romeo Oriogun The Lagos International Poetry Festival (LIPFest) has opened applications for the first cohort of the LIPFest Craft and Development Lab, a new four-month program focused on craft, mentorship, and professional development […]

The relationship between Africa and African America has long been mediated through language, memory, rupture, and imaginative return towards home. Across the long history of the Black Atlantic, poetry has served as one of the most intimate vessels through which these crossings are felt, remembered, and reimagined. It is for this reason that Édouard Glissant […]

In 2025, OlongoAfrica embarked on a historic journey to recover, digitize, and restore the complete run of Black Orpheus (1957–1993). For the first time in decades, the journal that defined African modernism—publishing the early works of Leon Damas, Wole Soyinka, Ama Ata Aidoo, Christopher Okigbo, J.P. Clark, Chinua Achebe and many others —was made freely […]

Seasonality dictates the character of Canadian life, its tone, texture, and the pulses of its resilience. It tells its history ruthlessly and informs us of the roots of traditions that govern the north and its confluences. To imagine the seasonal life of Canadian is to come into its brutal history of settler colonialism and the […]

From 252 entries down to 11 longlisted authors, The Nigeria Prize for Literature have pruned their list down to three finalists. This year’s panel of judges is chaired by Associate Professor Saeedat Bolajoko Aliyu of the Department of English, Kwara State University. Other members of the panel include Professor Stephen Mbanefo Ogene, Professor of Comparative […]

The longlist for the 2025 Nigeria Prize for Literature has been announced. Rotatating annually across four genres: prose fiction, poetry, drama, and children & literature, this year’s edition is focused on Prose Fiction.  Out of the 252 entries received this year, here are the 11 titles that made the cut: Professor Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, Chairman of […]