21 Best African Literature Podcasts

1. New Books in African Studies

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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support o..MORE Host Marshall Poe
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Location United States
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 82Facebook 1.3KTwitter 940 Avg Length 59 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Black Market Reads

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Black Market Reads is a menu for Black literary consumption and all of its spin-offs. Featuring Black artists who love to read and write and engage in arts and culture.PRODUCER: The Givens Foundation for African American LiteraturePRODUCTION SERVICES: iDream.tvMUSIC: Sarah White - Through People [M¥K Remix] BMR is made possible through the generous support of our individual donors, Target Foundation, and the voters of Minnesota, through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.MORE Host Lissa Jones
Producer/Network Givens Foundation for African American Literature
Email ****@icloud.com
Location Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 25Facebook 442 Avg Length 39 min Format Medium form Since Oct 2015 Get Email Contact

3. The stories we tell

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A conversation series for African writers to share the stories they have encountered on their individual writing journeys.
Host Nicole Asinugo
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 37 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Since Jun 2020 Get Email Contact

4. The Sankofa Book Club

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The Sankofa Book Club is a digital book club with a focus on African Literature. Through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and this podcast we aim to encourage discussion around African literature, African history and African culture.MORE Producer/Network The Sankofa Book Club
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Location United Kingdom
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Apple Reviews 21Facebook 391Twitter 797Instagram 485 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Since Oct 2016 Get Email Contact

5. Writing Africa Podcast

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Archiving the African and Black literary scene. The podcast is run by Nairobi, Kenya lover of books James Murua.
Host James Murua
Producer/Network Writing Africa
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Location Nairobi, Nairobi City, Kenya
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 11Twitter 2.2KInstagram 152 Avg Length 19 min Format Short form Since Mar 2018 Get Email Contact

6. Cruise With Diray

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If you're looking to be hooked on every word and be kept on edge looking forward the words you're about to hear next. You've definitely come to the right place. Cruise with Diray is a podcast that talks and discusses about real life situations, movies, African music, African literature and so much more. Stay tuned...MORE Producer/Network Dire Falode
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 22 min Format Medium form Since May 2020 Get Email Contact

7. Rants and Words (RaW)

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Rants and Words(RaW) will encompass book reviews, as well as issues surrounding family, parenting, gender, and other general lifestyle issues. I'm really just here to have fun ('unserious' =Rants, and 'serious'= Words).'Welcome' to my space!!!!!MORE Producer/Network Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 19 min Format Short form Since Sep 2020 Get Email Contact

8. The Nami Podcast

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The Nami Podcast is an anthology podcast of lightly dramatized stories and poetry by West African writers. We're here because we appreciate the stories of the everyday African and want to share that with the rest of the world.Our mission is to build a community that celebrates and supports the works, views and voices of African artist. If you want to be a part of the show, or want to contribute in anyway, send a DM on twitter or Instagram. We'd love to here from you.MORE Host Tsiddi Rashid Can-Tamakloe
Producer/Network The Nami Podcast
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 27Twitter 346Instagram 118 Avg Length 9 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

9. Nomwe

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Nomwe is an African podcast where there is story-telling, African literature, TV film reviews, pop culture, relationships and lifestyle. Nomwe is the Shona word for number 7. In numerology The number 7 is the seeker, the thinker, the searcher of Truth, mental analysis, alchemy, genius, a keen mind, the inventor, the written word, logic, understanding, knowledge, discernment and discerning, knowledge seeking, learning, and ahead of the times...MORE Producer/Network Nomwe
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Location United Kingdom
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Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 66 min Format Long form Since Dec 2016 Get Email Contact

10. African Theological Scholarship

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A podcast exploring issues in the field of African Christianity and African Theology both on the continent of Africa and in diaspora. The Podcast is hosted by Harvey Kwiyani who teaches theology, missiology, and leadership courses at several places in the US, Europe and Africa. He is currently based at Liverpool Hope University where he teaches African theology.MORE Producer/Network Missio Africanus
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Location United Kingdom
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Facebook 840Twitter 460Instagram 113 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Since Nov 2020 Get Email Contact

11. The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing

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The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is a literature prize awarded to an African writer of a short story published in English. The prize was launched in 2000 to encourage and highlight the richness and diversity of African writing by bringing it to a wider audience internationally. The focus on the short story reflects the contemporary development of the African story-telling tradition.MORE Email ****@raittorr.co.uk
Location United Kingdom
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Facebook 10.3KTwitter 18.7KInstagram 278.2K Avg Length 16 min Format Short form Since Jul 2020 Get Email Contact

12. The Nook Podcast

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The Nook Podcast is a podcast about books. A bookcast if you will. It covers discussions on books as discussed by The Nook Bookclub held monthly. Conversations about books and the beauty they hold. Rants about books. The place of African literature among other bookish topics.MORE Producer/Network The Nook
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Apple Rating 2/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 3 min Format Bite size Since Sep 2020 Get Email Contact

13. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African by Olaudah

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter. The book contains an interesting discussion of slavery in West Africa and illustrates how the experience differs from the dehumanising slavery of the Americas...MORE Producer/Network Loyal Books
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 12Facebook 5.9KTwitter 247 Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Since Nov 2020 Get Email Contact

14. Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne

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First published in 1863, Five Weeks in a Balloon depicts an insightful journey undertaken by a group of intrepid explorers into the partly uncharted African continent, as they aim to explore its exotic wonders. Apart from concentrating on themes including exploration, loyalty, friendship, determination, and honor, the novel also offers an endearing set of jovial characters and vivid imagery. Furthermore, the novel is the first book in Verne's distinguished Voyages Extraordinaires series.The adventure begins when Dr...MORE Producer/Network Loyal Books
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Apple Rating 1/5Apple Reviews 2Facebook 5.9KTwitter 247 Avg Length 12 min Format Short form Since Oct 2020 Get Email Contact

15. Positively African

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We create content and curate events that celebrate African stories and heritage.Using different mediums, from audio stories to theatre productions, we work with writers, storytellers, actors, publishers, illustrators, graphic designers, sound designers and musicians from across the continent on a range of projects with long-lasting social impact in the literary and performance space.MORE Producer/Network Positively African
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Location Nairobi, Nairobi City, Kenya
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Apple Reviews 1Facebook 2.3KTwitter 403Instagram 862 Avg Length 15 min Format Short form Since Sep 2020 Get Email Contact

16. The Osaro Theory Podcast

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Efosa Osaro is an African writer and the author of The Osaro Theory . The Osaro Theory Podcast gives you exclusive access into the mind of the author, discuss of subject like psychology , philosophy, history and the challenges that are hindering the African development.For more about the podcast Please visit osaroefosa.comMORE Producer/Network Efosa Osaro
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Instagram 3.4K Avg Length 20 min Format Short form Since Apr 2020 Get Email Contact

17. StoryThatTouchs

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We discuss African books by the best African Authors, you can visit StoryThatTouchs.com to read life changing books and connect with Africa on a different level. You are one good book away from a good moodMORE Producer/Network StoryThatTouchs
Location Kenya
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Apple Reviews 1Twitter 31 Avg Length 16 min Format Short form Since Aug 2020 Get Email Contact

18. Afrophilia

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Afrophilia means to love Africa and people of African descent. Afrophilia is both a magazine and creative agency. Our mag is an upbeat digital offering exploring all there is to love about Africa. From film to literature, fine art, entertainment, style, travel and climate action. Our creative agency exists to help African businesses improve their digital footprint and visibility in multiple markets. On this channel, we will share beautiful stories from the continent and reflections on media and the creative industry.Tune in to hear from and of Africa in ways you haven't before.MORE Producer/Network Afrophilia Magazine
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Location South Africa
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Facebook 164Twitter 110Instagram 424 Avg Length 5 min Format Bite size Since Aug 2020 Get Email Contact

19. African Culture Matters Podcast

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An introspective discussion of Africa's challenges based on the new book, African Culture Matters: How to transform a continent by changing mindsets. The author John Samwani leads the discussion on how a continent this blessed continues to harrassed by poverty, hunger, diseases and corruption. The premise of the book is that we should look closer home for the African solution. Maybe we are the Problem and also the Solution.MORE Email ****@johnsamwani.com
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Facebook 943 Avg Length 17 min Format Short form Since May 2020 Get Email Contact

20. African-American Collection, July 2007 by Unknown

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This collection recognizes Black History Month, February 2007. Two excellent resources for public domain African American writing are African American Writers (Bookshelf) and The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson's collection inspired the Harlem Renaissance generation to establish a firm African-American literary tradition in the United States.MORE Producer/Network Loyal Books
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Apple Reviews 1Facebook 5.9KTwitter 247 Avg Length 5 min Format Bite size Since Nov 2020 Get Email Contact

21. Black Canon

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Black Canon, like a shot across the bow, is a literally show that showcases writers from the African diaspora, the beauty, and pain in their work, their struggles, in a tentative to bring African literature back to America and restore a glory lost due to centuries of migrations.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Twitter 6 Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Since Sep 2019 Get Email Contact