Every writer, every book, every tradition they wrote from — the oldest oral records to what published this month.
Yoruba / Ifá · Mandé / Griot · Dogon · Kemet · Bantu · Amazigh · Kongo — the tradition each book was written from.
02Oral epics to Timbuktu manuscripts to the writers publishing this month — the full arc of African literary form.
03West, East, North, Southern and Central Africa, and the Horn — the continent’s writers, region by region.
04Cyclical, Web, Spiral, Non-Conflict, Negotiation — nine story architectures, and the writers who used each one.
05The full catalogue — every book with a buy link, filterable by author, tradition, region and form.
06Mythology and origins features, new releases, writer profiles, and the African literary market report.
African writers and the books they made — and the writers publishing this month. Books filed in the catalogue appear here as they are added.
Browse the full market →Each tradition entry carries the books written from inside it, the oral and manuscript forms that came before them, and the scholars who recorded the structure.