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 cosmological source of each book.
02Oral epics to Timbuktu manuscripts to the writers publishing this month — the full arc of African literary form.
03West, East, North, Southern, Central Africa — and the diaspora publishing houses that carry the work worldwide.
04Cyclical, Web, Spiral, Non-Conflict, Negotiation — nine story architectures, and the writers who used each one.
05The full catalog — every book with a buy link, filterable by author, tradition, region, and form.
06Mythology and origins features, new release coverage, author discovery, and the African literary market report.
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Each tradition entry carries the books written from inside it, the oral and manuscript forms that preceded them, and the researchers who mapped the structure.