The shortlist for the Baileys Prize 2014 was unveiled at a ceremony last night with Nigerian Chimamanda Adichie making the shortlist for her book Americanah. The Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction, formerly the Orange Prize, is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by women. The longlist for the prize was announced earlier […]
Nigerian Lola Shoneyin is well known as the writer and poet whose biggest claim to literary fame is her 2009 book, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives where talks about polygamy. She has also written published poetry, short stories and one children’s book called Mayowa and the Masquerade. She is also the director of […]
Book: An Elegy for Easterly Author: Petina Gappah Publisher: Faber and Faber Year of publication: 2009 Number of pages: 273 Genre: Short story collection We suffered a bit in the 1990s when the Kenyan shilling was devalued by 30% at one go in 1993 and we suffered the worst inflation in our history. The US […]
The Writivism Festival is set for Kampala, Uganda from the 18th – 22nd of June this year. I have been following The Writivism initiative with keen interest. The program which is aimed at pushing literature to the next level started last year quietly but has grown very fast very quickly with many capitals taking part. […]
The International Confluences Book Fair was hosted in Mauritius on 6-9 March with authors from the island on the Indian Ocean and otherparts of the globe. The Mauritian authors who attended the fair included Ananda Devi, Lindsey Collen, Alain Gordon-Gentil and Sedley Assone. From out of Mauritius were writers from France, UK, India, China, Togo, […]
Its truly awards season in the literature space for African authors. The latest nominee in a book award is South Africa novelist Lauren Beukes for the Mulholland published The Shining Girls and the award in question is The Strand Magazine Critics Awards 2013. The Strand Magazine was a monthly magazine composed of fictional stories and […]
Book: Nairobi Heat Author: Mukoma Wa Ngugi Publisher: Spear Books Year of publishing: 2009 Number of pages: 212 Nairobi Heat is the debut novel of Cornell literature professor Mukoma Wa Ngugi and it was published by Spear Books in 2009. The book speaks of black African American police Detective Ishmael Fofona who is investigating the […]
Residents of Kampala Uganda were treated to the biggest book fair in the country last week. The festival which started in 1993 was aimed at showcase Uganda’s intellectual output and bring national and regional focus on the crucial role that reading and books play in the country. Here are some sights from the well attended […]
Chimamanda Adichie is the biggest name in Nigerian (if not African) literature right now. She is kinda like the Lupita Nyong’o of literature from this rock we live on and love so much. Her book Americanah was published last year and she has been racking up the nominations and wins for this one book. In […]
The Kenyan short list for the Burt Award for African Literature 2014 was announced at a breakfast today. The Burt Award for African Literature is an award for fiction targeted at young adults in four African countries; Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia and Tanzania. The award which started in 2012 is sponsored by Code, a Canadian NGO […]
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