Anshita Ail had a conversation with South African author Sihle Ntuli about his new poetry collection, Owele (Uhlanga Publishers, 2025), and the layering of language to produce work with deeper meaning.

Brian Walter in conversation with K.G. Goddard about his recent publication, Notes from the Dream Kingdom (Botsotso, 2025).

K. G. Goddard, author of Notes from the Dream Kingdom (Botsotso 2025), speaks with Brian Walter, author of Down the Baakens Underworld (Botsotso 2024) about his practice.

Aimé Badjam Yan-Tchamsi Aimé Badjam Yan-Tchamsi is a writer and Managing Director of Éditions le Souffle in Chad. He has set out the following editorial guidelines aimed at authors wishing to publish their literary and academic works. They draw on his seven years editorial experience at Éditions Toumaï and having…

Sithembele Isaac Xhegwana is a celebrated South African author and curator at Amazwi South African Museum of Literature. His debut novel The Faint‑Hearted Man (1991) was long‑listed for the Noma Award. His poetry collections, including Scatter the Shrilling Bones (2003) and Dark Lines of History (2023), have earned critical acclaim…

In Inside an Eyeball, Zeenit Saban-Jacobs blends surrealism, Sufi philosophy, and spiritual inquiry. Her poetry evokes vivid “feeling states,” exploring love, consciousness, and the experience of being a stranger. Visceral and layered, the collection invites deep reflection. Available through Botsotso Publishing and African Books Collective.

Sanya Osha reviews Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s “Incompleteness, Mobility and Conviviality “

In Not This Tender, Sarah Uheida reflects on memory, displacement, and inherited grief with lyrical precision. In conversation with Anshita Ail, she discusses poetry’s unique power to hold both rupture and refuge, shaping language into a sanctuary where mythology, family, and the ache for home reverberate with haunting clarity.

Aimé Badjam The book, before arriving in the hands of the reader, traverses a long process. This is called the book chain. This chain includes a series of actors and stages, each playing a crucial role in the birth, production, distribution, and valorisation of a work. It is essential that…