Five poets all from Nigeria will be attending the Ibadan Poetry Foundation 2016 Residency. They are Lydia Ibinike Osinowo, Winifred Binogun, Akwu Sunday Victor, Minalisa Chiamaka and Stanley Princewill McDaniels. The Ibadan Poetry Foundation has announced the recipients of the residency in Ibadan (Oyo State) which will begin in late November. The five were selected […]
The Al-Multaqa Prize for the Short Story has announced its inaugural longlist, for collections published in 2015-2016 and it has four Africans. They are Anis Rafii, Saber Ben Abdasameea, Issa Jpayla and Mohammad Rafi. The Al-Multaqa Award is unique as this is a prize as it offers $20,000 and translation into English for the best […]
The Storymoja Ghana Festival 2016 was hosted at the W.E.B. Dubois Centre in Accra, Ghana from 21-25 September 2015. We were there when the Storymoja Festival was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 2007 when we had a little event called the Nyama choma festival. Knowing our love for all things nyama choma (roast meat in […]
The best libraries in Kenya were feted at the Maktaba Awards 2016 ceremony at the Kenya National Museum on September 30th, 2016. The best library in Kenya in 2016 was judged to be the Kenya National Library Services Kisumu. The Maktaba (library in Swahili) Awards are a unique event in the Kenyan reading scene as […]
Here is a list of African literary events for October 2016. We keep updating. 3rd – 8th October 2016 Kistrech Poetry Festival 2016 Venue: Kisii University, Kisii. More information here. Tuesday, October 4 Kwani Open Mic present Ngartia Time: 7.00pm – 9.30pm Venue: The Phoenix Players, Parliament Rd, Inside Professional Centre Entry: Kes 300 at the door. Limited advance […]
October marks announcement of the Nobel Prize for literature; this year we are pining for a Nuruddin Farah win. In 1901, five years after the death of Alfred Nobel, a new prize was awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and […]
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will be the headline guest at this year’s edition of Ake Festival 2016. Ngugi, who will sit in conversation with Okey Ndibe about his life and work, will be joined by a galaxy of stars in the African literary space. This year’s edition is themed “Beneath this Skin’ 15-19 November 2016 are […]
Sarah Ladipo Manyika is on the Goldsmiths Prize 2016 shortlist for her novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. The book is published by Cassava Republic Press which has offices in both Nigeria and the UK. The Goldsmiths Prize, a British literary award worth £10,000, was founded in 2013 for fiction that […]
Ehizogie Iyeoma, Ikechukwu Nwaogu and Servio Gbadamosi are the three Nigerian writers who just arrived in Iseyin, Oyo State for the six weeks September to October 2016 edition of the Ebedi International Residency Program. Ehizogie Iyeoman from Edo State has been described as a talented, young and energetic poet with the mastery of language and […]
There was a blurry of activity in Kenya’s capital city as the Nairobi International Book Fair 2016 was hosted at the Sarit Centre from 21-25 September 2016. Also happening was the Wahome Mutahi Literary prize 2016 on the Saturday evening. The Nairobi International Book Fair 2016 is the longest running book fairs in the Horn […]
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