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19 Southern African Poets Selected for Modjaji Books’ Woordeloos Anthology

Modjaji Books is turning 19 this year, and they are marking the milestone with poetry. The Woordeloos anthology, funded and initiated by Liliana Risi, was conceived as both a celeb...

South African Poet Siphokazi Jonas Wins 2025 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry for Debut Collection Weeping Become...

Siphokazi Jonas, the South African poet, playwright, performer, and producer, has been announced as the 2025 winner of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry — the only pan-Af...

South African Poet Gabeba Baderoon Selected to Judge the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry | Submit by October 1

There are prizes, and then there are prizes that feel like a genuine act of witness. The Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, administered by the African Poetry Book Fund at Br...

An Online Four-Week Poetry Workshop on African Poets by San Antonio’s Writing Arts Centre Is Coming 

Gemini Ink, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Centre, is offering a four-week online poetry workshop this June. Titled Exploring Africa: Inspiration from International Poets, the workshop...

Short Story: Postage

A memory of Africa in the 60’s....

Amazwi South African Museum of Literature is Dedicated Entirely to Literature, You Should Check It Out

Tucked in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape, Amazwi South African Museum of Literature is treating African literature as the heritage it is. The name amazwi means...

Don’t Romanticise: Reset, Reconstruct and Return  

Didn’t our forefathers teach us not to give up or tire? Ideally, today I would love to tuck into an African attire, charm all senses: hearing, taste, smell, touch and sight, turnin...

What Bold Art Teaches Africans About Migration and Africa  

Beautiful art is bold; its pushers and planners are unindoctrinated and unapologetic. In critical and tough issues, they are marinated.   They challenge the reader to broach diffic...

Nkomo Records: Protest and Poetry

This article was first published on All About Jazz on January 10, 2004. Keyboard player Mike Perry shares the management of Nkomo Records, an independent South African jazz label,...

Where Do You Stand?

The mindset of Afrophobic souls and actors smacks of being badly scared as opposed to being bold, of loathing instead of loving, of dogged closedmindedness and arrogance in place o...

New Poetry Collection Explores Identity, Love, and Spirituality Through a Trinbagonian Lens

In his evocative and deeply personal collection “Poems,” Trinidadian poet Israfil Sahibdeen invites readers into a lyrical world shaped by cultural memory, spiritual reflection,...

Zaïre Krieger schrijft Regenbooggedicht 2026

Africa: 'An African Cannot Be a Foreigner in Africa'

[GroundUp] In St George's Cathedral on Africa Day activists called out Afrophobia, saying immigrants are fighting for the same dignity as marginalised South Africans

“Nation-Building Is Also the Work of Artists”: Prof. Siphiwo Mahala Opens the 52nd National Arts Festival in Makhanda

South Africa’s National Arts Festival opened this week in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, running from June 25 to July 5, 2026, under the theme “Create New Worlds, Come Together.” Now in i...

Conceição Lima, the Preeminent Poet of São Tomé and Príncipe, Has Died

African literature has lost one of its most singular and necessary voices. Conceição Lima, the preeminent poet and journalist from São Tomé and Príncipe, died on May 15, 2026, at H...

Qinisela Possenti Ndlovu reviews Ndaba Sibanda’s poem titled March M 0, Mexico 2

March M 0, Mexico 2   Supa Xeno rolled the ball to Dudu and Dudu dribbled and delivered it to We First, who unfortunately fumbled, miskicked and tumbled. Spaza Shopu was not impres...

Write Out Loud's Poem of The Month - June 2026

"June's poem of the month is 'Of An Obscurity Of Poets' by Trevor Alexander,&n...

Genesis | Naa Asheley Ashitey | Poetry

  Now, we have found ourselves falling into a silence only familiar with those accustomed to their new homes in graves. Only if the sun rises at a particular angle does the bed, ev...

South Africa: 'Phantsi, Afrophobia!' - Cape Town Artists and Activists Reject Hatred

[GroundUp] World Refugee Day events show "African solidarity"

Nostalgia | Owen Habel Lwanda | Poetry

  At the barber shop, the barber asks where I come from. I say “Kenya.” He nods politely and drapes a shawl around my shoulders. I want him to ask another question. Which part of K...

Transit | Wole Oguntola | Poetry

  I died in Seville. The stone remembers. They buried me under the cathedral floor where gold from my father’s debt still sweats through the mortar. Four hundred years of damp. I c...

Excerpt: Sea Stories and Other Poems from Contraband Bodies by Jide Salawu

Sea Stories I have no stomach to keep sea stories. Ten thousand boys are crossing the black Atlantic without life jackets. In Thiaroye-sur-Mer, hundreds are wading through the buta...

Xenophobia Is Un-African: South Africa Must Not Betray Africa’s Shared Destiny

For decades, South Africa occupied a unique place in the hearts of Africans. It was not merely another country on the continent; it was a symbol of resilience, courage, and the tri...

Beautiful People in Dunedin: the Sunday Poem

Lines on the uneven distribution of beauty in Dunedin...