Celebrating Black Writers

Afro Reveal celebrates these accomplishment black female writers.  Support our fabulous black princesses by going out now and buying their books.


Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, born 15 September 1977, is a Nigerian writer. She is Igbo. She has been called "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [that] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature". ... Wikipedia


 Rochelle Alers


Rochelle Alers, born August 7 1963, is an American writer of romance novels and a national best selling author. She has also written under the pen names Susan James and Rena McLeary. Wikipedia


 A.C. Arthur


During the course of her writing career Artist has won the YOUnity Guild’s Best New Drama and Romance Author Award in 2005/06; been nominated 3 years straight for EMMA Awards, with the fourth time being a charm she took home the 2007 EMMA Award for Favorite Romantic Suspense; and has also received her first Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award Nomination for Best African American Romance. She is represented by Christine Witthohn at Book Cents Literary Agency, LLC. Source


 Brenda Jackson
 

Brenda Jackson born, 1953, is an American novelist who writes contemporary multicultural romance novels. She was the first African-American author to have a novel published as part of the Silhouette Desire line, and has seen many of her novels reach the New York Times and USAToday Bestsellers lists. Wikipedia


  Kiru Taye


Kiru, born 18 May, writes historical, contemporary and paranormal romances. Her stories are steamy and sensual, her characters are passionate and sassy and the settings, atmospheric and exotic.


 Netty Ejike


Netty Ejike is a romance writer and an independent publisher from Nigeria. She writes her own stories and from her own imprint called DeRafelo Romance. Netty has written four novels since 2010: OBSESSION, HIS SIN, STORMY AFFAIR, and AN IMPIOUS PROPOSALand is currently working on my next two novels.


Cynthia Jele

Cynthia Jele is a South African novelist. Her novel Happiness is a Four-Letter Word won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region and the M-Net film prize at the 2011 M-Net Literary Awards. She grew up in Mpumalanga. Wikipedia


 Nkem Ivara