Parresia have just announced their 2015 List for the Parrésia Books imprint. They made the selection from manuscripts submitted from within Nigeria and from outside the country. From these, which were in the hundreds, four manuscripts were chosen to go on to literary glory. They belong to Ifesinachi Okoli-Okpagu, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Maik Nwosu and […]
Travel writing the world over has been in main an genre that seems to be belong to one type of person; white, male and privileged. Voices that are not from this demographic talking about what you can see from around the world in book form are far and few between. This is why when you […]
Richard Ali A Mutu popularly known as Richard Ali is a very special man. He came to our attention last year for a story in the Africa39 anthology which shows Kinshasha in such vivid detail that I am determined to see this town very soon. The beauty about it is that he wrote this story […]
Doreen Baingana is not a new name on this blog. The Ugandan writer emerged in 2005 with her collection of short stories Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe (my review) which established her as the golden girl of Ugandan literature. For that book she won an AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Prize for […]
Esther Armah is an international award-winning journalist working in print, radio and television. She is also a playwright, writer and lecturer. Armah is host and executive producer of the weekly radio talk show ‘The Spin’, a global production via BBC Accra and NPR New York which airs on Ghana’s Citi FM every Wednesday at 7.05 […]
The Zimbabwe International Book Fair has had better times. It was started in 1983 with the support of a new country led by Robert Mugabe and became the go to festival in the Eastern and Southern part of the continent. The Zimbabwean crisis of the noughties that saw the country suffer some of the worst […]
What a year to be Chigozie Obioma. His debut novel The Fishermen has been causing serious waves in the literary award scene in recent weeks with a longlist on the Man Booker Prize at the end of July. This was followed a few days later with him making the shortlist of the FT/Oppenheimer Fund Emerging […]
I have been keeping you abreast of an exciting new project coming out of Rwanda. Huza Press a publisher in the country are currently in the process of coming out with a new anthology with stories from the East African country. The publisher has just announced the shortlist from the longer list of writers in […]
Jagero Oduor is the writer behind the novel True Lies, a story set in the dramatic public transport system that Kenyans have to navigate through on a daily basis. He has been getting rave reviews from readers in Nairobi, Kisumu and Kampala and other cities where has launched. Ten years ago he ventured into Rwanda […]
So you my Nigerian sibling have a 20,000 and 40,000 words manuscript that just happen to be on your hard disc chilling? Well have I got a deal for you. You are eligible to enter it in a call out made by online magazine Saraba. Nigerian writers resident in Nigeria or elsewhere in the world […]
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