Philip Ochieng is a very famous man in Kenya having built his name in the East African country’s journalism circles over a period going back decades. Today younger readers will remember him as the ultimate grammar nazi in the Nation newspaper where he points out errors in copy. Yes grammar nazi’s out there, you can […]
Its been a good time for those who write in the Swahili language. First there was the Mabati Cornell Prize for Literature where folks who write in Swahili are eligible to win thousands of dollars in prize. Then came the Tanzania’s Ebrahim Hussein Poetry Prize where one could win some dosh too. The newest prize […]
Zimbabwean author, poet and commentator Chenjerai Hove passed on in Stavanger, Norway on Sunday. The author who was born in Mazvihwa in 1956 leaves a wife and six children. Hove and began life as a teacher before working as editor for Mambo Press then onto devoting his life to writing. His works include Masimba Avanhu […]
The team at the Ba re e ne re Festival, Lesotho premier literary festival, announced the dates for the 2015 edition on Friday. The festival will be hosted at from 5-6 December in Maseru, the capital of the mountain kingdom. Ba re e ne re which means “they say it happened that…” in Basotho was […]
The Man Booker International Prize, born in 2005, used to be a biennial prize for works from anywhere in the world published in English. The most recent winner of the award was Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai beating out contestants that included Mia Couto from Mozambique, Alain Mabanckou from the Republic of the Congo, Libyan Ibrahim al-Koni […]
This blog concerns itself on news in the game of prose from the African continent. This is because this blogger has a very bad relationship with poetry; I don’t know how to know whether a poetry anthology is amazing. Unless of course is its horrible; for some reason I can tell awful poetry from a […]
Namwali Serpell is the winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2015. The Zambian was given the prize for her short story entitled The Sack from Africa39 (Bloomsbury, London, 2014) at a ceremony held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England last night. So what is The Sack about? The Chair of Judges Zoë […]
Ukamaka Olisakwe is feminist author, short-story writer, and screenwriter. She has a novel Eyes of A Goddess as well as being featured on the list of Africa39 writers. She gave a moving treatise on feminism that you have to read. Here it is with her kind permission. For the past few days, I have been […]
They have been threatening to do it and they have finally done it. Our friends from Storymoja have finally broken the work record for the most people reading aloud from the same text at the same time from different venues. This was at the latest record attempt on June 15 during the day of the […]
Its that day ladies and gentlemen. Tonight The Caine Prize for African Writing will be announcing its sixteenth winning writer at a kick ass dinner at Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries. The Caine Prize is named in celebration of the late Sir Michael Caine, former Chairman of Booker plc, who was Chairman of the ‘Africa 95’ arts […]
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