Book: Callused Hands Author: Stanley Gazemba Publisher: Nsemia Publishers Year of publication: 2013 Number of pages: 243 Kenyan writer Stanley Gazemba has been in the game for quite a while. His much loved debut novel The Stone Hills of the Maragoli about life in a village in Western Kenya was the winner of the Jomo […]
Zukiswa Wanner’s latest book London, Cape Town, Jo’burg launches in May in Johannesburg, SA. Zukiswa Wanner is one of the most recognised names in South African literary circles. She emerged in 2006 with the Oshun books published The Madams about a black South African woman who takes the services of a white South African maid. […]
Jalada Africa is a brilliant new initiative to bring new African voices to the literary landscape. Their first collection of stories was Sketch of a bald woman in the semi-nude and other stories which I really enjoyed. The next collection is already in production and will be a Porn/Sex anthology. The anthology in both English […]
Book: Mandate of the people. Author: Margaret Ogola Publisher: Focus Publishers Year of publication: 2012 Number of pages: 246 Many Kenyans will be familiar with Margaret Ogola’s 1995 Commonwealth Prize winning novel The River and The Source. The book also went home with Jomo Kenyatta Foundation Prize for literature. This is not because the book […]
Sierra Leone writer Aminatta Forna is one of the eight winners of the 2014 edition of the Windham Campbell Prize. Donald Windham and Sandy M. Campbell were avid book collectors, voracious readers, and friends with many of the most important literary figures of their time. When Campbell passed away unexpectedly in 1988, Windham created an […]
You may or may not know the Baileys Women Prize for women but you probably know about it in its old life. It all started in January 1992, a diverse group of creative types both male and female gathered together in a flat in London, UK (England, not Siaya). The Booker Prize shortlist of 1991, […]
Book: Den of Inequities Author: Kinyanjui Kombani Publisher: Longhorn Year of publication: 2013 Number of pages: 188 Kenyan writer Kinyanjui Kombani has a new book out called Den of Inequities. His first book was The Last Villains of Molo and it addressed the tricky issue of the series of crises that occurred in the Rift […]
Book: The Spider King’s Daughter Author: Chibundu Onuzo Publisher: Faber and Faber Year of publication: 2012 Number of pages: 286 This story has two main characters. On the one hand is seventeen year old Abike Johnson the favourite daughter of a very rich fellow living in Lagos, Nigeria. Her life is a very high end […]
Writer Stanley Gazemba is one of the more respected writers on the Kenyan literary scene. His most known book is The Stone Hills of Maragoli which won the Jomo Kenyatta Literary Prize in 2003, one of Kenya ‘s most prestigious literary awards. Apart from this award winner he has written many titles for both adults […]
The Caine Prize for African Writing will hold its annual workshop from the 21st of March to 2nd April at the Leopard Rock Hotel in Harare, Zimbabwe. The workshop will see thirteen writers from seven African countries take in the workshop’s writing and reading exercises and include four 2013 shortlisted writers. These are Abubakar Ibrahim […]
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