Journalist, diplomat and former Member of Parliament Joe Khamisi launched his third book The Wretched Africans at the Goethe Institut in Nairobi on 7th April 2016. The Wretched Africans is a historical narrative about slavery in the nineteenth century. The book was launched as a moderated panel discussion with the author Joe Khamisi, Dr. Mshai Mwangola, […]
The Abantu Book Festival is set to be hosted in Soweto, South Africa from 6-10 December 2016. The festival theme is “Imagining Ourselves into Being.” The Abantu Book Festival was founded as a healing project for black readers, writers, performers, scholars, publishers, booksellers, and abantu interested in literature, following the painful experience of existing in […]
Renee Edwige Dro is the head of Collection Danbé a new imprint at l’Harmattan Publishing House in Côte d’Ivoire. Danbe is loosely translated as Dignity in Bambara, because it goes beyond dignity and that is what the new imprint promises. An imprint to those who might be novices to this publishing industry is a trade […]
The longlist for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction 2016 in association with Porcupine Ridge has been announced. The Alan Paton Award which is 27 this year celebrates a book that presents “the illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it that are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power”, […]
The Barry Ronge Fiction Prize which was formerly the Sunday Times Fiction Prize have announced the long list of twenty five writers were announced yesterday. Some of the previous winners of the prize which is worth R100,000 are Sifiso Mzobe, Imraan Coovadia, Ivan Vladislavic and Zakes Mda. Publishers from our most Southernmost nation have been hard at work and […]
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Adichie and Taiye Selasi feature in a new series that speaks about Black identity by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an art museum north of Copenhagen, Denmark that produce weekly videos on art, literature, music, design and architecture. Their Vimeo channel describes themselves as having, “videos on the arts, featuring […]
The New Golden Baobab Prize launched on the International Children’s Book Day which was on Saturday 4nd April 2016. International Children’s Book Day is an annual event sponsored by the International Board on Books for Young People that was first celebrated in 1967. It is hosted on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, April 2. Andersen you […]
The Imagine Africa 500 anthology featuring some of the continent’s leading names in speculative fiction this month. It will make its online debut on April 30. In November last year, I spoke about a workshop hosted by the Story Club in Malawi was facilitated by Billy Kahora, Jackee Batanda and Beatrice Lamwaka. Those at the workshop were […]
The first annual Rutanang Book Fair will be held in Tlokwe, South Africa on 25 – 27 April 2016; the theme is Decolonising Literature. It looks like our African Literary Festivals have been coming thick and fast in 2016. With the ending Alexandra Book Fair ending this weekend there is another book fair on the horizon […]
Egyptian novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji will be honoured by PEN America as he is conferred the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award at its annual Literary Gala. The gala to will be hosted on May 16 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Naji, 30, is the author of three books and a […]
English
Deutsch
