'The Water Princess' is an upcoming new children's book by award-winning author Susan Verde. The book is inspired by the early life of Burkina Faso-born fashion model Georgie Badiel. Synopsis Based on supermodel Georgie Badiel’s childhood, a young gir ...
NEW BOOK: Mount Pleasant: A Novel by Patrice Nganang
Cameroonian author and associate professor Patrice Nganang will be releasing his latest novel 'Mount Pleasant' later on this month. The novel was originally written in French by Nganang and translated in English by Amy Baram Reid. Synopsis In Came ...
NEW BOOK: Fuchsia by Mahtem Shiferraw
'Fuchsia' is the title of author Mahtem Shiferraw's new anthology of poems published by the University of Nebraska Press, as part of the African Poetry Book Series. The California-based author is a native of Ethiopia and Eritrea and has had her work publi ...
NEW BOOK: The Book of Memory: A Novel by Pettina Gappah
In 2009, Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah won the Guardian first book award for her short story collection 'An Elegy for Easterly', Six years later she returns with her debut novel 'The Book of Memory', a book that the Guardian describes as proudly Zimbabw ...