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Throwback Thursday: Watch Taiye Selasi’s Ever-relevant TED Talk, “Don’t Ask...
In October 2014, Ghana Must Go author Taiye Selasi gave a fascinating TED Talk about the essential human question, “Where are you from?” Selasi says the majority of people do not think about how loaded...
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Burchell’s Travels by Susan Buchanan; Illustrated with over 100 Sketches and...
New from Penguin Books South Africa, Burchell’s Travels by Susan Buchanan: Just over 200 years ago, in 1810, a 30-year-old Englishman named William Burchell landed in Cape Town after a four-year stint...
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How Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go is Changing the Literary Landscape in Ghana
Daniel Neilson recently wrote an article for Time Out Accra on how Ghanaian fiction is taking the world by storm, “carving its way out of the ‘West African literature’ hold-all category”. In the...
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This World Rhino Day, Meet Sudan – the Last Male Northern White Rhino in the...
22 September is World Rhino Day, so take a minute to meet Sudan, the last male northern white rhinoceros in the world, and see what you can do to help his kind. Sudan is kept at the Ol Pejeta...
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"A Quiet But Determined Relevance": Green Lion and Tales of the Metric System...
Jeanne-Marie Jackson recently wrote an article for n+1 about the South African novel of ideas. Jackson provides an overview of the African literary landscape, outlining the various arguments that...
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I Will Probably Wrestle with the Notion of Being an African for the Rest of...
Ivan Vladislavić recently travelled to the US to launch the North American edition of The Folly and celebrate his 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction during the Windham Campbell Prize Festival...
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“There is only fear and the possibility of dying”– Read two excerpts from...
Back to Angola is Paul Morris’ personal account of the filth of war. Morris, now a counsellor and life coach, shares the story of the misadventure that took place when he was reluctantly conscripted as...
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Coming soon: The Woman Next Door, the new novel from Yewande Omotoso
Penguin Random House is delighted to present The Woman Next Door, the new novel from award-winning novelist Yewande Omotoso: Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one...
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Don’t miss the launch of The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso at Love...
Love Books and Penguin Random House invite you to the launch of The Woman Next Door, the new novel from Yewande Omotoso. The event will take place at Love Books in Melville on Tuesday, 10 May. The...
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Presenting Homegoing: Yaa Gyasi’s searing, profound, and highly anticipated...
Penguin is proud to present Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, the novel that made headlines last year when it received a seven-figure deal at the London Book Fair: Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very...
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