Even in countries where homophobia is pervasive and same-sex relationships are illegal, authors are pushing boundaries, finding an audience and winning awards.
Black Writers Matter: Who to Read this Month, and Every Month redbrick.me - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from redbrick.me Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Nyrobi Book Fest promises a celebration of Kenya's old and new literature standardmedia.co.ke - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from standardmedia.co.ke Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Senegalese writers Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo have made history by becoming the first pair to win the prestigious Caine Prize for African writing. Their winning story, "A Soul of Small Places," drew inspiration from Diallo's personal experience of gender-based violence in Senegal.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, a renaissance woman in Kenya and on the continent theafricareport.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theafricareport.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Book Bunk: Project rebuilds city social infrastructure one library at a time businessdailyafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from businessdailyafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
HKW is one of Berlin's iconic artistic spaces and - under new director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Senior Curator Cosmin Costinaș - something new is growing there.