AFRICAN LITERARY AGENCY
10 YEARS!
Incredible! I completely forgot. It’s TEN wonderful years ago I started my African Literary Agency this day. And I don’t regret any of those years.
All the authors we have represented—and continue to represent—have made this journey possible, and I am deeply grateful to each of them. Our mission has always been to share African voices on the global stage, to raise awareness of the imbalance in representation within the international publishing industry, and to do our utmost to bridge that gap.
What started as a solo effort has grown into a team of four, covering fiction, children’s literature, and our highly successful speculative fiction genre.
African literary agency is thriving, and I owe immense thanks to every publisher, co-agent, and my wonderful colleagues who have believed in us and supported our work over the past ten years.
A special thanks to my incredible team— Debbie van der Zande
Martijn Lindeboom, and Caitlin Farley —whose support has been invaluable in our daily workload.
With gratitude, I carry on, forever connected to the brilliant and talented African writers we are privileged to represent.
See you around.
About Us
African Literary Agency is a literary agency working with a premium group of books, authors, and publishers. We have been selecting emerging authors from the African continent for the past ten years, and successfully work with African fiction, Speculative Fiction mainly Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, Children’s books, and non-fiction.
We tirelessly search for the best match between author and publisher on a global scale. Together with a team of scouts and editors, African Literary Agency works to empower African voices in literature, bringing the best stories, from all over the continent, to you.
