Supporting authors, celebrating literature, and creating opportunities through an official partnership with the Africa Laureate Awards.
Official Partnership Announcement
Courtney Sharpe is proud to announce an official partnership with the Africa Laureate Awards, an organisation committed to recognising literary excellence and supporting authors around the world.
This partnership reflects a shared commitment to encouraging creativity, celebrating achievement, and helping authors gain greater visibility through meaningful recognition and professional opportunities.
Our Shared Mission
This partnership is built on a shared belief in the power of literature, storytelling and author recognition.
About the Africa Laureate Awards
The Africa Laureate Awards recognises authors and literary contributions while providing opportunities for writers to showcase their work to a wider audience.
Through awards, interviews, recognition programmes and community initiatives, the organisation continues to support writers and celebrate the impact of literature across communities.
Opportunities for Authors
Authors interested in engaging with the Africa Laureate Awards can explore the following official resources.
Submit Your Book
If you are an author and would like your work to be considered, you can submit your book through the official Africa Laureate Awards submission page.
Submit Your BookSupport the Mission
Help support the Africa Laureate Awards and their mission to recognise authors, promote literature and encourage literary achievement.
DonateLooking Ahead
This partnership marks another step in Courtney Sharpe’s wider commitment to supporting authors, encouraging independent publishing and contributing to initiatives that celebrate literature on a global scale.
Together, Courtney Sharpe and the Africa Laureate Awards look forward to supporting future opportunities that benefit writers, readers and the wider literary community.
Featured Collaboration
Supporting Independent Literary Voices
A featured collaboration celebrating meaningful work from fellow independent authors and creators.
Featured Book
Fi Mi Jamaica: Land of Wood and Wata
Courtney Sharpe is pleased to feature Fi Mi Jamaica: Land of Wood and Wata by Winnifred Reid as a featured collaboration.
This poetry collection celebrates Jamaica’s landscapes, history, culture and people, offering a heartfelt literary tribute to the island’s heritage, beauty and enduring spirit.
This collaboration reflects a shared commitment to supporting independent authors and recognising work that contributes meaningfully to literature and cultural storytelling.
Explore the BookSupporting a Literary Cause
Save 1 Million Black Books
Supporting an urgent campaign to protect one of Britain’s largest collections of Black literature and help return it to the community.
Community Initiative
Help Preserve a Major Collection of Black Literature
The Save 1 Million Black Books campaign has been created by the Black British Book Festival in support of Pepukayi and the Maa Maat Centre in Tottenham, London.
For more than fifty years, Pepukayi has worked to make Black literature available to readers, schools, libraries and community organisations. The collection now contains more than one million books, including rare and out-of-print titles.
The campaign is raising funds to secure the building, make the premises safe and accessible, and begin cataloguing and digitising the collection so that these books can once again reach the people they were collected for.
This initiative is independently organised. Courtney Sharpe is featuring it as a cause worthy of wider awareness and support.
The campaign aims to help:
Secure the Maa Maat Centre against further break-ins.
Make the premises safe and accessible to the public.
Begin cataloguing, digitising and protecting the collection.