Eboka Chukwudi Peter is the winner in the fiction category of the inaugural Saraba Manuscript Prize for his manuscript Mosaic: Stitches of Stories Lived, Stories Learned and Stories Told. Eboka who beat the other shortlisted entries was announced winner by the judges Rotimi Babatunde, Azafi Omoluabi-Ogosi, and Eghosa Imasuen. Eboka Chukwudi Peter who is from Delta State, Nigeria grew up […]
Nnedi Okorafor is on the shortlist for the Arthur C Clark award 2016 for her novel The Book of Phoenix. The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the most prestigious award for science fiction in Britain for a book first published in the United Kingdom. The award, established with a generous grant given by Sir Arthur […]
Egyptian Mohamed Rabie and Moroccan Tareq Bakari missed out as the winner of the ninth International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) was announced on Tuesday, 26th April at a ceremony in Abu Dhabi in the UAE. The $50,000 prize money and English translation of his novel went to Palestinian born Brit Rabai al-Madhoun for his novel Destinies: […]
Stanely Gazemba is one of the writers who have made the shortlists for the inaugural Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Its not the first time that Stanely Gazemba is in the running for a prize that he went on to win. In 2003, he was in the running for the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature […]
The Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation for emerging African poets was recently announced. The one-off award will be administered by the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) will celebrate fifty years since the publication of Okot P’Bitek’s Song of Lawino. Okot P’Bitek was a legendary poet from Uganda who became immediately immortal when his […]
Legendary Kenyan publisher Henry Chakava will celebrate his 70th birthday with the launch of his memoir Coming of Age: Strides in African Publishing. Henry Chakava who has often been called ‘the father of Kenyan publishing’ has been a colossus in African publishing for four decades. He started as an editor subsequently rose to managing director […]
There was a bit a low key celebration of World Book and Copyright Day 2016 across the African continent from our investigation. World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day which is also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days is a yearly event on April 23rd, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural […]
The Gerald Kraak Award and anthology is the latest one with a focus on the topics of gender, human rights and sexuality for a range of writing genres and photography. Gerald Kraak was a South African writer, grant-maker, film-maker, war resister and human rights activist who passed on in 2014. He was most well known in […]
Decolonising literature is the order of the day in South Africa and this is the theme of the Rutanang Book Fair 2016 next week, 25-27th April, in Tlokwe. There promises to be a large number of events at the book fair, organized by Tlokwe-based media and events company Red Dune, geared towards this theme next […]
It was a special time on Thursday evening with five African books reimagined by respected performers at the Goethe Nairobi. The performers were Mumbi Kaigwa, Patricia Kihoro, Aleya Kassim, Raya Wambui, and Maimouna Jallow and the performed Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye’s Coming to Birth, Zukiswa Wanner’s Maid In SA, Doreen Baingana’s Tropical Fish, Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchid Of Lost […]
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