The Goethe Institut in Lagos hosted Elnathan John and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, two of the hottest writers on the African continent right now, to a British Council-sponsored event as part of the Lagos Book and Arts Festival. The two writers whose newest books Born On a Tuesday (Cassava Republic) for Elnathan and Season of Crimson […]
The British Council hosted Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Eghosa Imasuen and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, three heavyweights in new African writing at the Lagos National Theatre on Friday morning. It has been as part of the many activities that is the Lagos Festival of Books and Arts aka Labaf. The British Council has been doing a series of […]
The longlist for the Etisalat Prize for Literature for 2015 was announced today. The prize launched in June 2013 as the first pan-African prize pen solely to debut fiction writers of African citizenship has quickly established itself as one of the most prestigious literary prize for African fiction. Previous winners of the prize include Noviolet […]
We all know the Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation which ensures that poetry gets its space at the literature table on the African continent. They have been doing this with first a poetry prize as well as a festival at their Kampala, Uganda base. Now the team at Babishai Niwe is set to launch their pilot […]
So what were you doing when you were ten years old? On my part, I was trying to figure out how the hell to navigate class four and its joys. These included running around the school yard, borrowing Anderson’s bike for a ride and enjoying that one shilling piece of maize with chilli at the […]
Jalada Africa will launch their Languages Anthology, their fourth, this Saturday at the Creatives Garage, off Ngong Road, Nairobi on Saturday, November 14th 2015. We all know about the collective of writers from all over the continent who the changed the way some of us looked at writing in the same way that the Wu […]
The International Dublin Literary Award, formerly known as the IMPAC Award, is the richest in the world for a single work of fiction in English with the winner going home with €100 000. If the winning book is a translation, the author receives €75 000 and the translator €25 000. Just like last year, there […]
The Namibian Book Fair 2015 was a hive of activity at both the Polytechnic of Namibia and Franco Namibian Cultural Centre from 28 September – 2 October. The events in Windhoek were organised by the team led by Ambassador Tonata Itenge-Emvula the patron of the fair as well as its founder Helvi Wheeler. Also doing […]
The best writers in South Africa this year were feted at the South African literary awards 2015 on Saturday night. The event was a gala event at the Tshwane Events Centre on 7th November. Writers in different categories including first time published writer, for literary translation, poetry, creative non fiction and more. The full list […]
The Lagos Book & Art Festival is set to happen at the Freedom Park in Lagos from November 13 – 15. This year’s festival which is the 17th edition will be dedicated to the memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa who fought for the rights of the Ogoni people and was executed by a very bad man […]
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