I am threads woven together. Specifically, threads from cotton crops grown on West African soil, spun, in the past, by the spindly hands of grandmothers. Men wove those threads on looms that required ...

Yarri Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-Ugandan writer, translator and policy researcher who has lived and travelled extensively in the Sahel. She has been awarded several translation grants and was a finali...

An essay by Yarri Kamara

Adichie has moved countless readers with her novels about Nigerians at home and abroad. After the death in Lagos of her toddler son, her homeland no longer feels as much like home.

Fiction is often where we come to read and enjoy interesting stories about life, its ups and downs, its strange turns and unexpected possibilities. But fiction, even at its most imaginative, is often ...

For International Literacy Day, Poda-Poda Stories interviewed Ama King, the founder of Sierra Learners and Congo Town Community Library in Freetown. King spoke about the importance of early childhood...

C'est une première dans l'histoire financière du Burkina Faso. Ce jeudi 3 septembre 2026, à Abidjan, le Trésor public burkinabè a fait sonner la cloche de la Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (B...

World Editions has just launched a new series, Read the World A to Z, with books from Argentina, Belgium and China. From World Editions: Read the World A to Z invites readers to travel the globe with the most influential voices from Argentina to Zambia. Published by the award-winning press World Editions, the collectible Read the World series features translated novels from A to Z—one country for every letter of the…

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When a crisis erupts, it sets crisis-management reflexes in motion and prompts efforts to contain its effects. Analysts then begin looking for the malfunctions, oversights, and failures that caused it...

The EU’s panic and the lack of solidarity emboldens smugglers and the far right – and makes Spain even more vulnerable, says Ruben Andersson, professor of social anthropology

Moroccan migrants described their despair at their economic future, explaining what propelled them across the border with Spain.

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The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey

According to the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Developments (EBID) most recent annual report, the three member nations of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, will have ...

Twenty thousand years into the future, an exploration of the Earth uncovers the final notes and unfinished stories left behind by the last sentient human beings in the twilight of their history.

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Now he's warning wealthy countries to stop ignoring diseases in Africa -- because no one is safe.

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How does a country shaped by anticolonial struggle become fertile ground for wealth concentration alongside enduring inequality? This is the paradox Mesrob Vartavarian dissects in Privileged Minoritie...

Burkinabé author Monique Ilboudo’s novel offers a compelling and complex portrait of migration in Yarri Kamara’s PEN Heim Award-winning translation.

The son of a Ghanaian doctor who once wrote a US$10,000 personal cheque to anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has called for renewed African solidarity in

Mali’s Defence Minister, Sadio Camara, has been killed during an attack on his residence near the capital Bamako,as fighting continued around the country between the army and Tuareg rebels backed by…

Nigeria imports 90% of its printing paper, losing its own mills to policy failure. With 400 million people by 2050, the cost of inaction is existential.

The backing by large firms underscores the growing interest from the nation in African companies as they contend with a shrinking market and relatively low interest rates at home.

African literature in 2026 did not start with a bang, but there are already enough incidents to suggest that much literary water has passed under the proverbial bridge