Video
Audio
- Radio New Zealand "Saturday Morning", 10 July 2021
- "200 Women" Project, 2017
- "The Kojo Nnamdi Show", 27 Oct 2013
- BBC World Service "Talking Books", 13 May 2013
- BBC World Service "The Forum", 28 April 2013
- BBC Radio 4 "Open Book", 24 Mar 2013
- ABC (Australia) "The Book Show, 6 Jun 2011
- The Bat Segundo Show, 1 Mar 2011
- Economica: Women and the Global Economy (Podcast), 26 Jan 2011
Print and online
- Public Books, 16 Jun 2023
- Los Angeles Review of Books, 9 Apr 2022
- BlackIris (Part 2), 26 Oct 2021
- BlackIris (Part 1), 18 Oct 2021
- Fiction Advocate, July 2021
- World Literature Today, July 2019
- VPRO (Netherlands), 25 Nov 2018
- Johannesburg Review of Books (South Africa), 1 Oct 2018
- Open Magazine, 22 Jun 2018
- The National, 6 May 2018
- Rain Taxi, 2018
- The Guardian, 13 Apr 2018
- Daily Mail, 12 Apr 2018
- Houstonia, 20 Mar 2018
- Doculife (Italy)
- Volkskrant (Netherlands), 2 Feb 2014
- The Guardian, 3 May 2013
- The Telegraph, 24 Mar 2013
- Ziher.hr, 16 Feb 2013 [In Croatian]
- The New York Times "India Ink" blog, 25 Jan 2013
- The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), 29 Jan 2012
- The Times Live (South Africa), 25 Sep 2011
- The Independent, 4 Jun 2011
- The Bat Segundo Show, 1 Mar 2011
- The Independent, 20 Feb 2011
- The Independent, Jun 2010
- VIDEO: Discussing The Memory of Love on BBC World Service, May 2010
- Financial Times, Apr 2010
- TheInterviewOnline.co.uk, Apr 2010
- Wartime loves and betrayals: Aminatta Forna's new novel casts a fresh light on old war wounds, The Independent, Apr 2010
- Nieman Foundation's Narrative Digest, Jan 2010
- Mslexia Issue 38, Jul/Aug/Sept 2008
- "No stone...unturned!", Calabash Magazine, Summer 2007
- Discussing Ancestor Stones and Life and War in Sierra Leone, NPR's "Morning Edition," 2 Jul 2007
- Discussing Ancestor Stones on the Paula Gordon Show, 25 Sep 2006
- The Listener, (New Zealand), 2 Sep 2006
- Discussing Ancestor Stones, BBC Radio's "Woman's Hour," 4 Jul 2006
- The Independent, 30 Jun 2006 [PDF]
- Discussing The Devil that Danced on the Water, NPR's "The Connection," 13 Feb 2003
- Discussing The Devil that Danced on the Water on the Paula Gordon Show, 11 Feb 2003
- Discussing The Devil that Danced on the Water, BBC Radio's "Woman's Hour," 23 May 2002