Pan-African editorial ecosystem
African stories deserve… a stage worthy of them.
A book can do three things.
Make you see more clearly. Give you a language for what you felt without words. Give you back power over your own story.
African voices exist.
Demanding, funny, political, intimate. Often unsettling. They write from Lomé, Dakar, Rabat, Kinshasa, Abidjan, Paris, Montreal. They are quietly taking their place.
What they lack are bridges.
- Spaces to write
- Places to be read
- Professionals to support them
- People to defend their rights
- Communities that help works endure
SUSU is building this editorial infrastructure.
Step by step, from Africa and its diaspora. If this vision speaks to you, let’s build what comes next together.
Three women, three intertwined voices in the Cameroonian Sahel, and a single watchword passed down from mother to daughter: munyal, patience.
The whole SUSU Bookshop
The SUSU ecosystem
Write, read, get support, publish.
Four ways in, one ecosystem: from the first page to the published book, SUSU supports authors and brings their readers together.
- SUSU LAB Submit a manuscript Write Write, submit your text, be read: SUSU LAB is the platform where manuscripts find their first readers. Enter SUSU LAB
- The readers’ community Read with SUSU Stories to discover, readings to share, voices to follow. Reading, but never alone. Join the readers
- Studio, workshops & programmes Get support Manuscript assessment, editorial support, writing workshops: professionals by your side, from first draft to finished text. Discover the studio
- Literary agency · Publishing house Publish a book Be represented by the literary agency or published by the SUSU publishing house: let’s find the right path for your book together. Find my path
The SUSU Bookshop
Our recommendations
Literature from Africa and its diasporas: an excerpt to read here, the book in print or as an e-book.
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Petit pays
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Ma sœur, serial killeuse – version française de My sister, the serial killer
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Le pauvre Christ de Bomba
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Notre quelque part
Read an excerpt — Notre quelque part -
Americanah
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Une si longue lettre
Read an excerpt — Une si longue lettre
Book of the month
Les impatientes
Three women. Three intertwined voices. A single watchword, passed down from mother to daughter in the Cameroonian Sahel: munyal, patience. Patience as the supreme virtue, the only response allowed to pain, to humiliation, to a confiscated life.
Les impatientes follows Ramla, Hindou and Safira through forced marriages and silences that serve as law: three destinies, three ways of resisting or giving in.
“The SUSU Bookshop needs it not because it won a prize, but because it is right.”
Events
SUSU’s gatherings
Festivals, meetings, readings: where African literatures are spoken out loud.
Calls for submissions
Open calls
Short stories, manuscripts, short texts: three open doors to get your writing read.
See all calls- Call for short stories Open Enfances africaines : apprendre à se tenir debout Fiction that lets us feel, at a child’s height, how the lines shift. Deadline: 30 October 2026.
- Call for manuscripts Open Appels à manuscrits Fiction and narrative non-fiction in French, to join a demanding list. Deadline: 31 January 2027.
- Call for submissions Open Appel à textes – SUSU Lab Short texts and projects published on SUSU LAB, chapter by chapter. Deadline: 31 December 2027.
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