Kenyan writers Ndiritu Wahome and Ciku Kimeria will be the authors who will be discussing their books at the “Conversation with African writers” series at the Goethe Institut in Nairobi on Thursday March 19th. They will be facilitated by facilitated by Khainga O’ Okwemba. I’ve talked about Ciku Kimeria on this blog before. She is […]
The Cairo Book Fair happened in the Egyptian capital on 28th January – 12th February. Formerly one of the biggest fairs on the continent, it wasn’t spared by the revolution that spread across North Africa and toppled leaders in 2011. Our correspondent in Cairo Lena Naassana gives us a photo gallery of the fair that […]
Kate Ekanem is a writer who started writing at the age of five and by age eighteen, the girl child activist, had started an initiative called The Kate Tales Foundation. It advocates for girl child education, curates art exhibitions and support emerging writers development and women empowerment. Malala who? The Foundation will be hosting Authors […]
So you know that the biggest prize in African literature is the Nigeria Prize For Literature right? Well it is. The worst part for the rest of us is that only Nigerians are in the running for the prize money; a whopping US$100,000. Lucky Nigerian people. The prize gravitates around different genres of literature; prose […]
The Jalada Africa collective has announced the long list for its inaugural Prize for literature. This edition of the prize is offered only to the best stories published in the Afrofuture(s) anthology. The longlist includes; “Last Wave” by Ivor W. Hartmann “eNGAGEMENT” by Richard Oduor Oduku “Discovering Time Travel” By Suleiman Agbonkhianmen Buhari “For Digital […]
Book: Belonging in Africa Author: Jo Alkemade Publisher: Lesleigh Inc Publication date: 2014 Number of pages: 256 Belonging in Africa is the debut novel by Kenyan born, USA based Jo Alkemade and it follows the exploits of Sara a young girl of Dutch parentage who is born in Kenya in the early 1960s. Based on […]
The Cairo Book Fair happened in the Egyptian capital on 28th January – 12th February. Formerly one of the biggest fairs on the continent, it wasn’t spared by the revolution that spread across North Africa and toppled leaders in 2011. Our correspondent in Cairo Lena Naassana gives us a snapshot of the fair that is […]
The Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal in South African yesterday announced the authors who will be doing their thing at the 18th edition of The Time of A Writer set for 16 and 21 March. In a word, the line up can only be described as… awesome. Check out this list; NoViolet Bulawayo, […]
Femrite is one of the most organised female collectives in the publishing industry on the continent. It has been described as more than just a feminist publisher by some but in truth what they do is as feminist as it gets. In a good way. This year, the organisation has been doing a series of […]
We have a winner or rather a list of winners for the Winham Campbell Prize 2015. And just like last year when Aminatta Forna was feted, there is an African in the list. In fact this year there are three; Teju Cole, Helon Habila, and Ivan Vladislavić all who are writers of fiction. The first […]
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