I’ve talked about this hot new literary event called Long Story Short which is the brainchild of Kgauhelo Dube and curated by Yewande Omotoso. The idea is that instead of having the prose only in the written form the word is read by some of the people who are leading in the performing arts. These […]
The winners of this years Brunel University African Poetry Prize 2015 with £3000 on offer were announced yesterday. The joint winners are Safia Elhillo and Nick Makoha, poets who judges thought exemplify the quality and diversity of emerging African poetry. Sudan’s Elhillo lives in New York and is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at […]
If you are an African women writer or journalist, you are free from July 27 to August 5, 2015 and came make it to Kampala, Uganda then do I have a deal for you. The African Women’s Development Fund and Femrite (Uganda Women Writers Association) have organised a 10-day writing workshop dubbed the Writing for […]
April 24 was a special day for Liberian author Saah Millimono as this was the day that his baby aka debut novel Boy Interrupted would be seen by the world. The book is the second from the Kwani Manuscript Project after Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu which has gotten rave reviews and runs out of stock […]
The Abuja Literary Society is one of the major literary organizations in Abuja, Nigeria. It holds weekly events in the city, holding the phenomenally successful #BookJam@Silverbird on the last Friday of every month. After a brief hiatus, the Abuja Bookjam hosted Parrésia author, Michael Afenfia, on the 24th of April at the Silverbird Galleria, Abuja. […]
The annual Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) is one of the most important events in the African community in the UK. The awards born in 2010 celebrate the best in talent, art, business, expression and achievement in the Zimbabwean community. This years awards were hosted at the Royal Garden Hotel in London on Saturday and gave […]
The people in the running for the Burt Award, the richest prize in Kenyan literature at the moment, which is aimed at young adults have announced their 2015 nominees. The nominees for the 2015 Burt Award for African Literature which is run by the The National Book Development Council of Kenya are: 1) Charles Okoth […]
Book: Broken Glass Author: Alain Mabanckou Translator: Helen Stevenson Publisher: Serpents Tail Year of publication: 2005 (French), 2009 ( English) Number of pages: 165 Broken Glass is a book by Alain Mabanckou an author from the Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville) who has written a raft of books including African Psycho (2003 French, 2009 English), […]
A new academic book, Novels from Botswana written in English from 1930 to 2006, was launched in at the University of Botswana Bookstore in Gaberone, Botswana last week. The book is written by Dr Mary Lederer. Professor Arua E. Arua of the UB’s Department of English was the master of ceremonies. You can read more […]
The five writer shortlist for the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced by Chair of judges, award-winning South African writer Zoë Wicomb. They are Namwali Serpell (Zambia), South Africans Masande Ntshanga and F. T. Kola (South Africa), Nigerians Elnathan John and Segun Afolabi. The Chair of judges, Zoë Wicomb described the shortlist […]
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