40 Best African Literature Blogs to Follow in 2026

1. Kinna Reads

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Description I love books, reading, nurturing and developing my appreciation for the art form. I read mostly fiction, both contemporary and classic. I really enjoy world literature. I'm partial to women writers and their works, especially African women writers.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
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2. African Book Addict

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Description My name is Darkowaa and I am a Ghanaian-American, currently living where my heart feels most at home, Accra, Ghana. African Book Addict was created mid-2014 and its dedicated to celebrating BLACK literature through book reviews, book chats with fellow readers & writers, book hauls and more.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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3. Brittle Paper

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Description Welcome to Brittle Paper, your go-to site for African writing and literary culture. We bring you all the latest news and juicy updates on publications, authors, events, prizes, and lifestyle.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States
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4. Saraba Magazine

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Description Saraba is a literary magazine focused on the work of new writers in Nigeria and other parts of the African continent. Since 2009, we have published several issues of a magazine, editions of poetry chapbooks, and online-only work.MORE Email ****@sarabamag.com
Location Nigeria
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5. Jalada Africa

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Description Jalada Africa is pan-African writers collective. Our aim is to publish literature by African authors regularly by making it as easy as possible for any member to publish anything or execute any literary project as quickly and effectively as possible.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location South Africa
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6. The Chimurenga Chronic

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Description Based in Africa, but with a global reach, the Chronic is an ideal platform for institutions, organisations and brands looking to get beyond the borders of nation-states and associate themselves with a cutting-edge pan-African vision.MORE Email ****@chimurenga.co.za
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7. The Caine Prize for African Writing Blog

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Description The Caine Prize for African Writing is a registered charity whose aim is to bring African writing to a wider audience using our annual literary award. In addition to administering the Prize, we work to connect readers with African writers through a series of public events, as well as helping emerging writers in Africa to enter the world of mainstream publishing.MORE Email ****@caineprize.com
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8. Africa in Words

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Description Africa in Words is a blog focusing on cultural production and Africa. We cover books, art, film, history, music, ideas and people and the ways they interact.
Email ****@gmail.com
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9. Africa Writes Blog

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Description The Africa Writes festival is an annual celebration of contemporary literature from Africa and the diaspora brought to you by The Royal African Society. Africa Writes aims to enhance coverage and discussion about African literature and writers in London - and the UK, by extension.MORE Email ****@soas.ac.uk
Location London, England, United Kingdom
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10. Open Country Mag

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Description Open Country Mag is a multiplatform space for African literature. We exist to record literary culture in Africa; to make the deep archives of literary resources, data, and history available for use anywhere, from general reading to academia; and, crucially, to be a ladder for the next generation of African writers, thinkers, literary journalists, and curators, to provide necessary tools in their development.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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11. African Literature Association

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Description The African Literature Association is an independent non-profit professional society open to scholars, teachers and writers from every country. It exists primarily to facilitate the attempts of a world-wide audience to appreciate the efforts of African writers and artists.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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12. Books LIVE

http://bookslive.co.za/cat/reviews/ + Follow Blog
Description South African, African and international books and literature news, as it happens. Web network and news source for southern African writers and publishers.
Email ****@book.co.za
Location Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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13. African Writer Magazine

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Description African Writer Magazine is a New Jersey-based monthly celebrating African Literature & Writers.
Email ****@africanwriter.com
Location New Jersey, United States
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14. AFREADA

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Description AFREADA is an online literary magazine, featuring original short stories from emerging writers across the Continent. A fusion of the two words, Africa and Reader, we live for the well-crafted narratives and effortless reads that speak to our daily realities as Africans at home and abroad.MORE Email ****@afreada.com
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15. Naija Stories

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Description Promoting Nigerian Reading and Writing. Naija Stories is a website set up and committed to promoting Nigerian Fiction. We are a social network for Nigerian writers of all skill levels and readers of both genre novels and literary fiction.MORE Email ****@naijastories.com
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16. uHlanga

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Description uHlanga focuses on publishing single-author collections. We also publish a small number of edited anthologies and chapbooks. uHlanga was founded in 2014 as a magazine of poetry from KwaZulu-Natal. Our books have won most major South African and African poetry awards, including three Ingrid Jonker Prizes for Poetry in English, and more.MORE Email ****@uhlangapress.co.za
Location South Africa
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17. Africa Access

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Description Africa Access Review, our online database, contains over annotations and reviews of children's books about Africa published in the U.S. Our reviews are written by university professors, librarians, and teachers most of whom have lived in Africa and have graduate degrees in African Studies.MORE Email ****@aol.com
Location Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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18. Africa Book Link

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Description The Africa Book Link is a newsletter, primarily announcing new and forthcoming African literature, drama and criticism. Secondly, it announces conferences and highlights the latest articles, interviews and bookreviews related to African literature, drama or criticism.MORE Email ****@africabooklink.com
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19. Wawa Book Review

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Description Wawa Book Review focuses on the outputs of African publishers. We cannot review all books published by African publishers, not even all the important ones. We however will do as much as our generous, volunteer reviewers can manage. Review copies of newly published books are welcome. However, we cannot guarantee that we will review every book we receive.MORE Email ****@wawabookreview.com
Location South Africa
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20. Sooo Many Stories Blog

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Description This site aims to show you our (Uganda) literature. To remind everyone that we are here, we are writing, we are reading and we have sooo many stories to tell.
Email ****@somanystories.ug
Location Kampala, Uganda
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21. PEN South Africa

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Description PEN South Africa represents the writers of southern and South Africa. We celebrate literature, defend freedom of expression, and aid writers in prison.
Email ****@pensouthafrica.co.za
Location South Africa
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22. Writers Space Africa

https://www.writersspace.net/tag/african-literature/ + Follow Blog
Description Writers Space Africa is an international literary magazine, which features rich diversity of writings from African writers to a global audience.
Email ****@writersspace.net
Location South Africa
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23. Bookshy

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Description I fell in love with African literature, and I've been hooked ever since. Bookshy is my personal labour of love dedicated to African literature. It is a space where I celebrate, promote and recognise contemporary African literature - although sometimes I go back in time to commemorate the greats. It is about the books I love, the books I have read and the books that I am dying to read.MORE Email ****@gmail.com.
Location London, England, United Kingdom
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24. Black & Bookish Blog

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Description Antoinette wanted to get closer to her history and culture, something that can easily slip away when you use the narrative of your oppressors. Black & Bookish was created to celebrate Black literature throughout the African Diaspora, tell the stories of Black people, and grow a global community behind those efforts.MORE Email ****@blackandbookish.com
Location Los Angeles, California, United States
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25. The Afro Reader

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Description Our goal is to bridge the gap between literature books and those using digital media while working with the Sustainable Development Goals in mind.
Email ****@gmail.com
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26. Librettong

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Description LIBRETTO is a publishing company, bookstore & and Africa's finest online magazine of arts and publishing that aims to publish the works of new/emerged and established writers and artists and all kinds of literary electronic publication and distribution of EBook across Africa and the world at large. We aim to publish fine and qualified works considering race and themes. We so much believe that literature and arts should be celebrated for their aesthetics. We want to inform, educate, exposing morals and ideals. We also define new voices as those with qualities, new themes, styles, and forms.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Nigeria
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27. WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM Blog

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Description We are a foremost Nigerian publishing and educational institution. The culture of helping each other grow has become our strength, as we actively promote Nigerian writing, acting as a support base for young Nigerian writers and providing client-customized publishing services at competitive rates.MORE Email ****@wrr.ng
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28. Arts Lounge

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Description Covers articles on promoting literature from Africa and the Diaspora. Arts Lounge believes Literature is a tool for radical, positive change in society, and in the fight against stereotypes; therein lies our dedication and drive.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Nigeria
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29. Maisha Yetu

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Description This site is run by Nairobi based journalist Joseph Ngunjiri. It focus on the arts in general but has quite a bit of information from the Kenyan publishing industry.
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30. Literary Tourism

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Description Through KZN Literary Tourism we aim to provide an invaluable resource for those interested in the relatively new field of Literary Tourism as well as provide information on the work we are currently doing from our base in Durban, South Africa. KZN Literary Tourism is a resource for those interested in books.MORE Email ****@ukzn.ac.za
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31. Mocha Girls Read

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Description We are a group of Black women who love to read, want to read more and meet like minded women.
Email ****@email.com
Location Los Angeles, California, United States
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32. EBOquills

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Description EBOquills is a literary platform, which aside from promoting African Literature, seeks to be a clinic for creatives and a spa for stressed and distressed artists. We want to take hundreds of writers from the shadows and place them in the spotlight. Because we know that writing is a sojourn on a long lonely lane and it is difficult to stay sane with overdoses of silence and solitude. This is why we want to walk willing writers down this lane, offer pieces of advice, churn out writing prompts, and simply be a reliable support system.MORE Email ****@eboquills.com
Location Nigeria
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33. THE LEO NATION

https://leomuzivoreva.wordpress.com/ + Follow Blog
Description A warm welcome to TheLeoNation, a land of non-fictional chronicles, debacles and anecdotes on life as an African literate, the ups and downs, common and rare, are shared here.
Email ****@yahoo.co.uk
Location Zimbabwe
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34. Playground of Randomness

https://playgroundofrandomness.co.za/ + Follow Blog
Description My name is Shanice Singh and I,m an English major. I enjoy reading, writing, watching TV and good clothes. I have an unhealthy obsession with books and shopping. I'm from sunny South Africa.
Location Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
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35. African Street Literatures Blog

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Description African Street Literatures is a research project based at Uppsala University on emergent African writing. We are interested in the variety of forms that literature takes in African cities, from spoken word to chapbooks, blogs to street theatre, and all forms of print producing an emergent contemporary African literature. We aim to publish guest blogs on this material by African literary producers and academics in a variety of African languagesMORE Email ****@gmail.com
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36. All Africa

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Description AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 700 news and information items daily from over 140 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public.MORE Email ****@allafrica.com
Location South Africa
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37. African American Literature Book Club Blog

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Description AALBC are the largest and most popular website dedicated to African American books and Black literature from around the world. We celebrate Black culture, through books, for readers of all backgrounds to enjoy. Follow this blog to know more about African American Literature Books.MORE Email ****@aalbc.com
Location Harlem, Georgia, United States
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