NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Home to the third largest international book and publishing fair in Africa, Rabat will kick off the year of celebrations on 23 April 2026, on World Book and Copyright Day.

Sada Malumfashi founded and curated the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival to showcase the best contemporary African literature, poetry, music, art, film, and theatre in Hausa.

Israel Campos, a participant in the 2024 CANEX Creative Writing Workshop, has won the second Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda/Angola Literature Prize for Baloiço de Memória.

The sixth edition of the African Small Publishers Catalogue showcases over 60 publishers from across Africa.

The Miles Morland Foundation has awarded the 2024 Morland African Writing Scholarships to Carey Baraka (Kenya), Fayssal Bensalah (Algeria), Yvette Ndlovu (Zimbabwe), and Frances Ogamba (Nigeria).

The Botswana Literature Awards were founded to recognise the contributions and hard work of authors in Botswana by Dr Lame Pusetso in 2023.

African digital distribution platform eKitabu, renowned for its “Books for All” mission, introduced a new book publishing imprint called Mvua Press in November.

Rosarium Publishing is accepting submissions for Planet Black Joy, an anthology edited by Chinelo Onwualu, Susana M. Morris, and Bill Campbell.

On October 18, Cassava Republic Press, founded by Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, won the first CANEX Prize for Publishing at CANEX WKND 2024 for Female Fear Factory by Pumla Dineo Gqola.