All literary roads in Lagos, Nigeria head to the Intercontinental Hotel on Victoria Island as the winner of the Etisalat Prize for Literature 2015 is announced tomorrow. The event will see either Penny Busetto, Fiston Mwanza Mujila or Rehana Rossouw go home much richer than they were at the beginning of the ceremony. There were […]
It was a fun time last week at the Eco Sanaa Terrace, Mikocheni B in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as a writers and editors’ workshop for budding writers, sub-editor/ editors and book editors was hosted. It started on Wednesday and ended on Friday March 11, 2016. The event was organized by the` Culture and Development […]
The Time of the Writer 2016 started on March 14th, 2016 in Durban with writers from around the continent converging on the South Africa seaside city. The festival with the theme “Decolonising the book” ended on March 19th this year. The festival which is the longest running in Africa’s most Southernmost country started slowly with […]
The Uganda Women Writers Association popularly known as Femrite is celebrating twenty years as an organisation this year. Femrite was founded when women writers gathered on the office of Hon. Mary Karooro Okurut at the Makerere University in 1996. Okurut was a lecturer in the Literature Department at the time. It was attended by Lillian Tindyebwa, […]
On Saturday, March 19 2016 a new icon will be introduced to the African literary game as the Etisalat Prize for Literature 2015 is announced. In the running are three books The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself by South Africa’s Penny Busetto, Tram 83 by DR Congo’s Fiston Mwanza Mujila and What […]
Sarah Ladipo Manyika has announced on her website that her second novel, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun will be making is entry to the market on April 1st, 2016. Manyika who was born and raised in Nigeria and has also lived in Kenya, France, and England stormed into the African literary conscious in 2008 with […]
The focus of the week festival wise has to be The Time of The Writer literary festival which kicked off today in Durban, South Africa. The festival which is in its 19th year will be hosting writers from around the continent and further afield will run until Saturday 19th March. Some of the writers who […]
The finalists for the Burt Awards Kenya 2016 was announced at a breakfast at the Nairobi Safari Club last week. The award celebrates writers of Young Adult fiction. The Burt Awards which are administered by the National Book Development Council of Kenya are one of the richest in the region with writers going home with […]
There was a huge turnout at the Goethe Institut for the Literary Crossroads event called Quo Vadis Africa: The Power of Words – The Words of Power last night. The event which was moderated by the columnist and radio personality Ndumiso Ngcobo featured Zukiswa Wanner and Panashe Chigumadzi. The writing community in Johannesburg turned out to support […]
Book: Season of Crimson Blossoms Author: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Publisher: Parresia Books Year of publication: 2015 Number of pages: 345 Genre: Fiction Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is not an unknown name in the world of African literature. Some of his many accolades include being shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African writing, a BBC African performance […]
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