A South African poet’s multilingual performance at the G20 Social Summit touched viewers as she blended several local ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country’s cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that. Focused on ...

The 2026 AVBOB Poetry Competition closes at 23:59 on 30 November 2025. Fabulous prizes await the winners, whose names will be ...

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Over 200 dignitaries attended the ceremony, which is increasingly being regarded as the “Oscars” of the literary calendar in ...

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In the past year, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR's West Africa correspondent, has brought us stories about everything from political violence, to natural disasters, to Senegalese rappers, to post-apartheid ...

Adam Schwartzman poet, writer Adam Schwartzman was born in Johannesburg in 1973. After completing degrees in English literature and development studies at Oxford University, he held positions in the ...

The 150th anniversary of Fort England Psychiatric Hospital makes it South Africa's oldest psychiatric facility. Rory du Plessis's poetry collection, Automaton(tik), memorialises the lives of 25 ...

FREEPORT, Maine -- A former teacher who travels the country to document the final resting places of poets is looking forward to calling attention to African-American poets on a tour of the South and ...

For 10 years, Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes and his friend the Nigerian writer Chris Abani have sifted through piles of manuscripts looking for Africa's new poetic talent. Since 2014, the African Poetry ...