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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o story stars in latest Jalada Anthology
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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o story stars in latest Jalada Anthology

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s story The Upright Revolution (or Why Humans Walk Upright) is the story at the centre of Jalada Africa’s latest anthology dubbed The Translation Issue. The story which was initially written in Kikuyu and translated into English by Kenya’s leading author is a folk tale about the human body parts and a battle that led to the human being finally standing upright. It is a story that would be told to children at the campfire to great effect. The unique thing about this project is not the story itself; the Jalada collective decided to go all out and…

Jalada Africa to launch Languages Anthology
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Jalada Africa to launch Languages Anthology

Jalada Africa will launch their Languages Anthology, their fourth, this Saturday at the Creatives Garage, off Ngong Road, Nairobi on Saturday, November 14th 2015. We all know about the collective of writers from all over the continent who the changed the way some of us looked at writing in the same way that the Wu Tang Clan did for the rap game. Since they emerged from the shadows two years ago they have already done three theme based anthologies namely the Sketch of a bald woman in the semi-nude and other stories (my review) dealing with insanity, Sext Me poems…

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor continues the Jalada Conversations
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor continues the Jalada Conversations

The other week I talked about our friends from Jalada and their innovative way they are introducing their new Languages anthology. They are doing thing this by doing a series of interviews they call “conversations” that they feel will be the best to sell it. The first of the conversations was between Ivorian Renee Edwige Dro and Congolese Richard Ali Mutu and it was very good. The latest conversation is between Kenyan writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Zimbabwe’s Novuyo Rosa Tshuma. Owuor has been doing amazingly well with her novel Dust which has been garlanded the world over for its…

Jalada Africa fourth anthology coming; send in your submissions
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Jalada Africa fourth anthology coming; send in your submissions

JA 04: The Language Issue the fourth anthology from Jalada Africa is now in the works and you sire/madam are being asked to give your submission. This new anthology follows in the wake of Sketch of a bald woman in the semi-nude and other stories, Sext Me poems and stories and Afrofuture (2). This new anthology will be a celebration of language, featuring fiction, poetry, visual art and various essays on the very subject of Language. Writers are asked to submit original works written in their own languages and provide an accompanying English translation. We also ask writers to feel free…

Jalada Africa announces new literature prize
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Jalada Africa announces new literature prize

Jalada Africa reminds me a lot of that cartoon Pinky and The Brain. In that cartoon, The Brain is a mouse who plans to take over the world. Pinky is the mouse who messes up all his world domination plans. The only difference between the people who run the Jalada Collective and Pinky and The Brain is that they don’t seem to have the “Pinky” that messes up everything. After conquering the editorial game with three anthologies all within the space of a year, the collective has set its sights on the awards segment of the lit game as they…

Jalada Afrofutures anthology now online
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Jalada Afrofutures anthology now online

Its taken its time but it is now here. The Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s) anthology was launched at midnight yesterday in Nairobi at www.jalada.org . It’s the third anthology of the Jalada Writers Collective and this edition has work from voices as diverse as Richard Ali, Jude Dibia, Okwiri Oduor, Ivor Hartmann, Lydia Kasese and Melisa Kiguwa . The anthology is the third that the Jaladans have unveiled and you can read my reviews of previous anthologies including Sext Me Poems and Stories and Sketch of a bald woman in the semi-nude and other stories. As you can imagine, I haven’t…

Jalada’s Afrofuture anthology is coming; be afraid, be very afraid
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Jalada’s Afrofuture anthology is coming; be afraid, be very afraid

Jalada’s Afrofuture anthology: Jalada Africa has announced that their newest anthology with the “Afrofuture” theme will be unleashed on an unsuspecting public on January 2015. They have given a sneak peak of the anthology with a non-fiction piece on visual artist Wangechi Mutu and her career by Binyanvanga Wainaina. The hottest new thing in the African prose field is Jalada Africa which has been doing amazing things with a membership from across the continent. The group, which is like a Wu Tang Clan of African writers, specialises in publishing their work online where folks can access it gratis at their…

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A review of Sext Me Poems and Stories by the Jalada Collective

Erotica. Written porn. This surely has to be one of my favourite part of the written word. Xaviera Hollander is the erotica writer who got me hooked many years ago with her The Happy Hooker: My Own Story memoir about her life as a sex worker. That was in high school. Since then I have seen erotic writing a lot when I am reading stuff from Western writers. Many of them. Unfortunately, I don’t tend to see enough of this kind of writing in with my African writer friends. I know, I know David Maillu and all that. But in…

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