The Africana Book Awards are supposed to encourage the publication of accurate, balanced children's literature about Africa. Guest host Celeste Headleee speaks to award winners Karen Leggett ...

One Iowa library is not only a big deal to its small town, but also across the globe. The Manning Public Library doesn’t only exist in Carroll County, Iowa but also in West Africa. Manning’s main ...

Monica Edinger, author of “Africa is My Home, A Child of the Amistad,” is a former Peace Corps volunteer who began writing children’s books during Sierra Leone’s Civil War. “Sierra Leone and its ...

In other words, I was likely to hate Gettleman’s new book, “Love, Africa” before I even started it. And I did. I expected the book to be much like his reporting: reductionist and exoticizing.

Last week, Africa Is a Country, a blog that documents and skewers Western misconceptions of Africa, ran a fascinating story about book design. It posted a collage of 36 covers of books that were ...

A meme triggered this week by the Africa Is a Country blog exposes the latter. A reader of the blog posted on Twitter a collage of 36 prominent books set in or about Africa, all of which seem to ...

A few weeks ago, a fascinating post on Africa Is a Country plumbed the strange visual meme—which is so familiar, it’s almost invisible. On Twitter, Simon Stevens pulled together 36 examples of ...

From literary icons to fresh, buzzworthy talent, we're highlighting 25 books by African American authors you should add to your reading list today. 1. Kindred // Octavia Butler.

For decades, there was one path to becoming a successful African writer: Getting a book deal in the publishing meccas of New York, London or Paris. But a radical shift is underway, ...