It was all going down in Kampala, Uganda as writers from around continent converged for the 2015 edition of the Uganda International Writers’ Conference. There was a large number of events from 1st to 6th March with the theme some free and some paid with the theme, Memoir and Truth. Some of the highlights for […]
Prof Ebrahim Hussein is the best known Swahili playwright and Tanzania’s most complex literary personality. Kenyans and other Swahili speakers will remember him as the dude who wrote the play Kinjeketile (1969) as well as Mashetani (1971), an overtly political play and Jogoo Kijijini (1976), an experiment in dramatic performance. In his play Arusi (1980) […]
The Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature is the brainchild of the Kenya Publishers Association. It was established in the early 1970’s and is open to Kenyan writers whose work is published in Kenya. It is awarded every two years with Henry Ole Kuletwinning in the English category for his epic book Vanishing Herds (my review) […]
The Brunel University African Poetry Prize is an annual poetry prize aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa with a prize money of £3000. Pretty good for poetry. The prize is sponsored by Brunel University a public research university located in London, UK and Commonwealth Writers. The shortlist for the 2015 […]
Jo Alkemade is a the Kenya born author of Belonging in Africa a book about a young white girl who falls in love with a local boy. You can read my glowing review here. The writer, who currently lives in the USA, has been doing a series of event to introduce Kenyan audiences to her […]
I’m starting to notice a pattern with these folks from Germany’s Goethe Institut. Its looking like these fellows are the one’s hosting a lot of the really cool literary events on the African continent be it Authors talk in Nigeria or Conversations with African Authors in Kenya. This month alone there shall be one event […]
The biggest thing in African TV, or anyone with a GOTV decoder like myself, on Saturday night was the screening of the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA) 2015. The AMVCAs usually hosted in Lagos, Nigeria are the hottest property and everyone who is everyone in the entertainment industry on the continent watches to see […]
The Pan African Congress (PAC) is a historic gathering of the Global African Family. The 1st PAC was designed as a forum through which people of African descent have articulated key agendas for the liberation of Africa and the assertion of the dignity of the African personhood. It was first hosted in London in 1900 […]
Last week was the Uganda International Writers’ Conference hosted in Kampala, Uganda with many of the most well known writers on the continent. Jagero Oduor the Kenyan writer of True Citizen gives us a run down of how it went down for him. As a budding writer with only a title out, you feel a […]
The “Short Sharp Stories Award” for South African short-story fiction curated by Joanne Hichens is presented each year by the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. The awards create a publishing platform for both established and emerging writers in South Africa. The winning writers have their stories in an annual anthology of selected stories with a […]
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