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).

August 15, 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.

July 9, 2025

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.

EHF speaks to Stephanie Kitchen of the African Books Collective – who sells, promotes and distributes our titles. Stephanie talks about the history of the African Books Collective and how they are making books from across Africa available around the world. She also discusses the visibility of African writers and…

February 27, 2025

Imprint Africa: Conversations with African Women Publishers maps an early twenty-first century history of the remarkable women who have pioneered the publishing industry in Africa in the last few decades. These luminaries have modeled resistance to the forces excluding African writers from the publishing industry, both on the continent and…

October 24, 2024

Karen Chalamilla, African Arguments, interviews Mkuki Bgoya, publisher at Mkuki na Nyota.

July 29, 2024

Salimah Valiani interviews Anton Krueger about his poetry collection, Everybody is a Bridge: Poems, Prose-Poems, Notes Fragments (Botsotso Publishing).

July 24, 2024

Jatinder Padda, editor with Read African Books, interviews Tanure Ojaide about his new poetry collection, History and its True Colors (Spears Media Press).

July 11, 2024

Allan Kolski Horwitz, poet and publisher at Botsotso Publishing, interviews award-winning editor and arts writer David Mann on his debut short story collection, Once Removed.