It’s going to be another banner year (in the words of lying African governments, a “bumper harvest”) for books from authors on the Continent and in its Diaspora! Here’s your list, sorted by month, with all kinds of genres included (including children’s books, at the end of the post). There’s no way I could list every book that’s coming, but here’s what I think is notable—as always, a work in progress, subject to updates.

If you’re chasing a sense of belonging in what can feel like an ever-more-alienating real world, An Unlikely Coven is the book you need.

in the shade of the human-sized Ricinus bush, with the bagpipe over his shoulder, slumped on top of the slumped horse, hidden by leaves wide as webbed hands, sweating, he solemnly picks one of the …