The historical archive of HIV
Kayo Chingonyi’s latest poetry collection is a powerful meditation on the cycle of infection, death, and mourning wrought by HIV.
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Lizzy Attree
Lizzy Attree, Ph.D. is director of Short Story Day Africa and co-founder of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize.
A big African literature prize in an African language
The Kiswahili Prize works to undermine the marginalization of African languages in literary culture. An interview with one of its founders.
In the company of coronavirus
What literature can teach us about what happens when the chain that connects human beings to nature is broken.
Tips from the apocalypse
Speculative fiction by writers from Africa explore viral apocalypses. What can we learn from art on catastrophe?
The Kiswahili Prize for African Literature
Can an African language literature prize be inherently Pan-African?