News & Events

On 6 November 1966 Equatoguinean author and activist, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, was born. His parents were from the remote island of Annobón, off the West African coast. Ávila Laurel is featured in our library weekly.

Northern Rhodesia became independent on 24 October 1964 as Zambia. Read about the country's history, demographic and social-economic developments over the past 60 years in our latest Infosheet. It is the final Infosheet in the series about African countries that became independent in the 1960s!

South African writer Nadia Davids is the winner of this year’s Caine Prize for African Writing, with  her short story Bridling. Bridling, first published in The Georgia Review in 2023, was selected out of 320 entries representing 28 countries. Nadia Davids, Bridling, and the Caine Prize is the topic of our latest Library Highlight.