Hughes was both a contributor and supporter of his fellow African American writers.

Oh, she's got contacts among South African writers, or so she claims.

Like authors all around the world, African writers are interested in the lives of the people around them, he continued.

The society was the first national organisation to be dedicated to the work of an African American writer.

You'll hear how Harlem became home for African American writers and artists at the turn of the 20th century.

By the 1920s, speculative fiction was also published by African writers.

This promoted interaction of African writers and critics with visiting international scholars.

It is one of the earliest books published by a black African writer.

These African writers took their blackness as central and the whites were the "other."

He is the first African writer to win the award since its inception in 1990.