Book bloggers are a very important lot in the African literary ecosystem and on Thursday afternoon some of the most well-known ones strutted their stuff in a panel at the #AkeFest2015. Moderated by Kate Haines were bloggers Kinna Likimani of Kinnareads.com and Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed of bookshybooks.blogspot.com with Emmanuel Iduma of online journal Saraba magazine accompanying […]
The young writers who will be taking part in the Writivism workshops in fiction, non-fiction and poetry were announced on Friday afternoon at the Ake Festival happening in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The workshops will be running in Accra, Kampala, Abidjan, Dakar and Goma in 2016 will be facilitated by Yewande Omotoso, Sitawa Namwalie, Mamadou Diallo, Edwige […]
Ayodele Morocco-Clarke moderated “Writing our way out of social inequality in Africa”, one the first panels at the Ake Festival with writers Siphiwo Mahala, Dilman Dila and Mona Eltahawy. As she moderated, it became evident that Ayodele had either not prepared enough for the panel or she had been given this assignment to fill in […]
Elnathan John is famous for many reasons. His work has been short listed for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and again in 2015. His work has appeared in Hazlitt, Per Contra, the Evergreen Review, the Financial Times and the Caine Prize for African Writing anthology 2013 and 2014. He writes satire for […]
It’s finally here. After months of preparation and all the hype with the tweets and the Facebook posts and the Instagramming and all the rest, the Ake Festival kicked off on Wednesday at the Cultural Centre in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. For the first time in its three year history, there was an actual opening […]
The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African literature was founded by Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Lizzy Attree in 2014 to promote writing in African languages and encourage translation from, between and into African languages. Alongside the announcements for the winners of the Mabati Cornell Prize this year, a call for submissions the 2016 edition of […]
We have a winner for the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature which recognises writing in African languages and encouraging translation from, between and into African languages ladies and gentlemen. They were selected from 65 manuscripts in the fiction and poetry categories of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature. The six judges […]
It’s been an amazing weekend are at the Lagos Book and Arts Fair popularly known as Labaf. The events have been happening at the Freedom Park, The British Council and the National Theatre. Here are some pictures of the happenings in Lagos.
At this moment people are flying into Nigeria from all over world headed to Abeokuta; they are all coming to that city a couple of hours away from Lagos to attend the Ake Festival 2015. The Ake Festival was born in 2013 and it has quickly become the go to festival to meet African and […]
So a few months ago, Thando Mgqolozana was all the rage in South African literature scene. While we all love him for his books, the reason for his sudden fame was that he had made a stand that was considered controversial at the time. He would not be attending book festivals that he considered colonial […]
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