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Holy Diamonds! The 21 Best Jewelry Moments at the 2026 Oscars

Holy Diamonds! The 21 Best Jewelry Moments at the 2026...

From yellow diamonds to rare sapphires, A-listers were dripping in jewels worth...

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Billy Crystal’s Tribute to Rob Reiner at the 2026 Oscars Was Both Painful and Perfect

Billy Crystal’s Tribute to Rob Reiner at the 2026 Oscars...

“My friend Rob’s movies will last for lifetimes, because they were about what makes...

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Inside the 2026 Oscars: Go Behind the Scenes With All the Best Candid Moments

Inside the 2026 Oscars: Go Behind the Scenes With All the...

Check out photos of all the best air kisses, laughs, hugs, mini-reunions, and other...

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Michael B. Jordan’s 2026 Oscars Look Is the Perfect Way to Round Off Awards Season

Michael B. Jordan’s 2026 Oscars Look Is the Perfect Way...

The Sinners star Michael B. Jordan cemented his place as one of the best-dressed...

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Groundbreaking: Anne Hathaway and Anna Wintour Presented This Year’s Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscars

Groundbreaking: Anne Hathaway and Anna Wintour Presented...

'The Devil Wears Prada' references aplenty? Check, check and check.

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Ballet, Dead? Not on the 2026 Oscars Stage, Where Misty Copeland Just Wore a Piece of Dance History

Ballet, Dead? Not on the 2026 Oscars Stage, Where Misty...

For the performance of “I Lied to You” from “Sinners” at Sunday night’s Academy...

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The 2026 Oscars-Nominated Costume Designers Wore Looks Filled With Intention

The 2026 Oscars-Nominated Costume Designers Wore Looks...

It’s a costume designer’s job to tell stories through clothes, and at tonight's...

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Live: See Every Look From the 2026 Oscars Red Carpet

Live: See Every Look From the 2026 Oscars Red Carpet

The 98th annual Academy Awards are underway! See what all of your favorite Hollywood...

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Kate Hudson Chose Her Dress for the 2026 Oscars This Morning

Kate Hudson Chose Her Dress for the 2026 Oscars This Morning

Though she’s been on the awards circuit since last year, Kate Hudson wanted her...

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Elle Fanning Used Fashion to Honor Her Childhood Home at the 2026 Oscars

Elle Fanning Used Fashion to Honor Her Childhood Home at...

A wisteria vine on Elle Fanning’s childhood home served as inspiration for her 2026...

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Jessie Buckley Channels Grace Kelly at the 2026 Oscars

Jessie Buckley Channels Grace Kelly at the 2026 Oscars

Jessie Buckley’s 2026 Oscars gown–a floor-skimming bubblegum gown with an off-the-shoulder...

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Audrey Nuna Is Going for Gold(en) at the 2026 Oscars

Audrey Nuna Is Going for Gold(en) at the 2026 Oscars

Audrey Nuna and her “KPop Demon Hunters” bandmates waited for the perfect moment...

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The African Literature Piracy Debate, Poverty and Where to Find Free Legal Books

The African Literature Piracy Debate, Poverty and Where...

Last week, a Google Drive link stuffed with African literary texts began circulating...

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Arole Agarawu Foundation Opens Submissions for Inaugural African Poetry Prize with Two $1,000 Awards

Arole Agarawu Foundation Opens Submissions for Inaugural...

The Arole Agarawu Foundation has opened submissions for the inaugural Alhaji Arole...

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Photos: Saara El-Arifi Brings Egyptian Queen Cleopatra to Life in New Novel, Celebrated with Events in New York and Manchester

Photos: Saara El-Arifi Brings Egyptian Queen Cleopatra...

Saara El-Arifi is a No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of fantasy and historical...

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Leye Adenle Is Launching a New Private Investigator Series, Fall From Grace, Arriving in September

Leye Adenle Is Launching a New Private Investigator Series,...

Nigerian crime writer Leye Adenle has a new novel coming, and this one marks the...

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Of All the Lives We’d Never Live | Uchechukwu Onyinyechukwu Onowu | Fiction

Of All the Lives We’d Never Live | Uchechukwu Onyinyechukwu...

  Grief often sits at my mother’s doorstep, an unwelcomed guest, hanging by the...

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Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Benjamin Abana Honoured at Humans Out of the Box II Exhibition in Abuja

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Benjamin Abana Honoured at Humans...

On 21 February, a gathering of diplomats, artists, and cultural figures came together...

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Marie NDiaye Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026

Marie NDiaye Longlisted for the International Booker Prize...

The 2026 International Booker Prize longlist, announced on 24 February, has two...

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Excerpt: Where The Shadows End by Louisa Bello

Excerpt: Where The Shadows End by Louisa Bello

Boat Woman’s calling me to her, across the rooftops, round the chimneys and pigeons,...

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Five Things Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s Seeking Sexual Freedom Wants You to Know

Five Things Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s Seeking Sexual Freedom...

We revealed the cover of Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s Seeking Sexual Freedom: African...

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Temi Ajibade’s Fresh Accra Cornrows Are the Chicest Braided Look You’ll See Today

Temi Ajibade’s Fresh Accra Cornrows Are the Chicest Braided...

Temi Ajibade's neat all-back cornrows from Accra, Ghana are the hair inspiration...

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Grandma’s Chair | Zizipho Godana | Poetry

Grandma’s Chair | Zizipho Godana | Poetry

  The chair was a pause in the room. Its legs rooted into a square of shadow the...

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Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson Has Launched a New Podcast and the First Episode Is Already Out

Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson Has Launched a New Podcast and the...

Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, Sunday Times bestselling author, inaugural Future Worlds...

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The Harare Review of Books Is Back with Its First Issue of 2026 and It’s a Good One

The Harare Review of Books Is Back with Its First Issue...

The Harare Review of Books has published its first newsletter of 2026, and if you...

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Chimamanda Adichie, Oyinkan Braithwaite, and Cassava Republic’s The Mercy Step Make the 2026 British Book Awards Shortlists

Chimamanda Adichie, Oyinkan Braithwaite, and Cassava Republic’s...

The 2026 British Book Awards shortlists are out, and African literature has made...

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Stephanie Bosch Santana’s Forms of Mobility Wins the Harry Levin Prize for African Literary Scholarship

Stephanie Bosch Santana’s Forms of Mobility Wins the Harry...

Stephanie Bosch Santana’s Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and Media in African...

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“I Feel I Have to Make Up for Twenty Years of Lost Time”: A Conversation with Yasmin Angoe, Author of Behind These Four Walls

“I Feel I Have to Make Up for Twenty Years of Lost Time”:...

Yasmin Angoe is a first-generation Ghanaian American thriller writer from Northern...

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Cassava Republic Press Lands a Women’s Prize Longlist Spot with Marcia Hutchinson’s The Mercy Step

Cassava Republic Press Lands a Women’s Prize Longlist Spot...

The 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist is out, and among the 16 titles selected...

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A Boy I Loved | Soter Julius Omohegbele | Fiction

A Boy I Loved | Soter Julius Omohegbele | Fiction

  I am looking at him in the picture. His hands in his pockets, he poses with six...

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