African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can ...

The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re ...

A South African children's colouring book is at the centre of a crackdown on freedom of expression in Israel. On Sunday afternoon Israeli police raided the most popular Palestinian-owned bookshop ...

The inaugural Sharjah Festival of African Literature (SFAL) was held January 24–27 in University City, Sharjah, U.A.E., during the only time of year when cool temperatures allow for an outdoor ...

Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

and fueled racial tensions,” said ANC Western Cape provincial secretary, Neville Delport. He said the actions of the lobby groups violate key South African laws, including the Constitution ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

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The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed ...

Investors do not appear the slightest bit concerned that the town is located on disputed territory at the centre of Africa's longest-running conflict. When Spanish colonists left the Western ...