We are honoured, and we are proud. This is what independent, Black-owned publishing is for - not as a corrective to the mainstream, but as a home. A place where a writer can debut at sixty. Where a story rooted in Black British life can be treated with the full literary ambition it deserves. We started in Abuja twenty years ago with passion and an unshakeable belief that African storytelling belonged to the world. Today, the world agrees.”
Independent Black publisher Cassava Republic Press is celebrating a major literary victory for its title The Mercy Step by Marcia...
The 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist has been revealed with Marcia Hutchinson and her acclaimed novel, The Mercy Step,...






