Red Summer | Amber James | Fiction

  Octavio Johnson stood beside the news kiosk reading the headlines of The Chicago Defender: Troops…

I Have Offered Myself as a Sacrifice | Olubukola Odusanya | Poetry

  It’s a shame my body doesn’t hold scars, So maybe then you’d know to fear…

Seven Billion Ways to Tell a Story | Precious Afolabi | Fiction

  As you stood at the bus stop at Maryland downtown, hand in hand with Remi,…

Prison Memoir by Egyptian Author Wins the 2024 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

Katharine Halls wins the 2024 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for her translation…

Fatima Sadiqi on Orality, Art, and Indigenous Moroccan Writing | Interview | Conducted by Jagravi Dave

We had the chance to sit down with Prof. Fatima Sadiqi, author of Women and the…

Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Book About Africans Living in China Shortlisted for the 2025 Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year

Noo Saro-Wiwa’s book, Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China, has been…

Face Me, I Face You | Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi | Poetry

  The rooms woke before us, staring at each other with closed mouths. The curtain dropped…

The JAY Lit Awards Is Making Space for African Literary Youth Culture

The Journal of African Youth Literature (JAY Lit) is making space for young African writers. They…

The Sandman | Amber James | Fiction

  The blackface minstrelsy and acrobatics of Black Patti Troubadors’ Greatest Colored Show on Earth enlivened…

Ugandan Poet Tramaine Suubi is Guest Editor for Yellow Arrow Journal’s New Issue

Ugandan author Tramaine Suubi is the guest editor for the Fall 2024 issue Yellow Arrow Journal,…