Celebrating a Year of African Literature
This year for Black History Season we are highlighting a selection of the brilliant African writers that have taken the publishing market by storm in the last few months.
We have collected together some of the most inspiring fiction, non fiction and poetry from 2024 and early 2025. Read on and reserve your next read…
An African History of Africa
Zeinab Badawi
In this fascinating book, Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history – from the origins of humanity, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence.
Somadina
Akwaeke Emezi
When twins Somadina and Jayaike come of age, their magical gifts begin to develop. But while Jayaike's powers enchant, Somadina's cause fear to ripple through her town.
Hail Mary
Funmi Fetto
In this stunning collection, nine Nigerian women discover what it means to confront traditional expectations that have held them hostage for too long.
A Mouth Full of Salt
Reem Gaafar
This novel uncovers a country on the brink of seismic change as its women decide for themselves which traditions are fit for purpose – and which prophecies it’s time to rewrite.
Theft
Abdulrazak Gurnah
It is the 1990s. Growing up in Zanzibar, three very different young people – Karim, Fauzia and Badar – are coming of age, and dreaming of great possibilities in their young nation.
Blessings
Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Interweaving the perspectives of Obiefuna and his mother Uzoamaka, as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, this is an elegant and exquisitely moving story of love and loneliness.
Someone Like Us
Dinaw Mengestu
We follow journalist Mamush as he leaves his young family and returns to the close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community of Washington DC that defined his childhood.
Allow Me to Introduce Myself
Onyi Nwabineli
Ever since she was a child, Anuri's life was chronicled and monetized by her influencer stepmother. Now an adult, she's finally broken free.
A Kind of Madness
Uche Okonkwo
Across ten stories, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness unravels the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings, and more.
They Dream in Gold
Mai Sennaar
An electrifying Afrobeat love story about a young Senegalese jazz musician and an aspiring African American producer thrown together by chance, and destined to make music that will change the world.