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Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Namwali Serpell, and Siyanda Mohutsiwa Discuss Being an...
The Stoop is a podcast that seeks out interesting but often un-publicized stories. It is hosted by Sudanese-American journalist Hana Baba and fellow San Francisco-based journalist Leila Day. For its...
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This Nigerian Professor Wanted NLNG Prize Judges to Overlook Chika Unigwe and...
Recently, at a June 18 conference jointly organised by the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) and Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo, Nigeria, themed “Expanding Frontiers: Nigerian’s...
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How Short Story Day Africa Became the Continent’s Most Important Institution...
SIBONGILE FISHER WAS hanging out with friends, eating burgers at Snack Boss, a restaurant in Tembisa, a township in the East Rand in Johannesburg, when she saw the link on Facebook: a post...
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Makena Onjerika Awarded 2018 Caine Prize, Is 4th Kenyan Winner
Kenya’s Makena Onjerika has won the 2018 Caine Prize for her short story “Fanta Blackcurrant,” published in Wasafiri in 2017, making her the fourth writer from her country to do so—following wins by...
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Kwame Dawes, Warsan Shire, Nadifa Mohamed, Inua Elams, Chibundu Onuzo Elected...
Eight African writers have been elected into the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) as part of its 40 Under 40 initiative: poets Warsan Shire and Inua Ellams, novelists Sabrina Mahfouz, Nadifa Mohamed,...
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Two Days at Niyi Osundare International Poetry Festival | Kingsley Alumona
DAY ONE Two days after I saw the festival flyer, I found myself at the venue—Lead City University, Ibadan. I am a fan of Niyi Osundare’s. I have read some of his works—including his valedictory...
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Makena Onjerika to Donate a Tenth of Her Caine Prize £10,000 to Help...
In an absolute act of authorial philanthropy, 2018 Caine Prize winner Makena Onjerika will be donating a tenth of her £10,000 prize money to street children in Kenya. Onjerika, who is the fourth...
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Event | An Evening of Poetry, Music, and Conversation with Gbenga Adesina and...
African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) and Angels & Muse—Victor Ehikhamenor’s artsy co-working space—is bringing to Lagos an intimate evening of poetry, music, and stimulating conversation with Gbenga...
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Listen to These Songs While Reading Panashe Chigumadzi’s These Bones Will...
Zimbabwean writer Panashe Chigumadzi has a nonfiction book out. These Bones Will Rise Again “reflects on the November 2017 ousting of Robert Mugabe, radically reframing the history of Zimbabwe to...
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The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela | Sisonke Msimang’s Second Book Is Out in...
Sisonke Msimang, author of the memoir Always Another Country and winner of the Brittle Paper Award for Essays, is ready with her second book. Following her death on April 2 of this year, Winnie...
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Clemantine Wamariya’s The Girl Who Smiled Beads Is a Devastating, Beautiful...
Clemantine Wamariya first came to our attention in 2015 with her essay in Matter titled “Everything Is Yours, Everything Is Not Yours” and co-written with Elizabeth Weilis. The essay was featured in...
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How do you identify what works in a poem? What makes a poem memorable? How you begin the unending journey of curating your voice and inner life to write deeply felt and moving poems? How do you grasp...
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Nominations Are Open for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards
The Brittle Paper Awards is back for the 2018 edition. We are opening up the nomination process to the public. Anyone can nominate works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essays or think pieces for...
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What Chimamanda Adichie, Taiye Selasi, Aminatta Forna and Kayo Chingonyi Are...
What do your favourite writers read during summer? Last year, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie read Isabel Wilkerson’s 2010 historical migration study The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s...
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In House of Stone, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Explores Family History, Colonial...
Zimbabwean writer Novuyo Rosa Tshuma has a novel out. In House of Stone, she explores family history, colonial Rhodesia, and the birth of modern Zimbabwe. The 400-page book is published in the UK by...
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35 Poets Longlisted for the 2018 Babishai-Niwe Poetry Award
The 2018 Babishai-Niwe Poetry Award has announced a longlist of 35 names, 26 of whom are Nigerian. Founded in 2009 by Uganda’s Beverly Nambozo Nsengiyunva, director of Babishai-Niwe Poetry Foundation,...
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Ikhide R. Ikheloa: The Caine Prize Has Degenerated into Mediocrity Again,...
In a Twitter chat on SynCity’s “Literary Lords and Ladies” series, Ikhide R. Ikheloa said that the Caine Prize “has degenerated into mediocrity again,” “has regressed,” and “struggles to be relevant.”...
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Chimamanda on Her Next Novel, How Motherhood Feeds Art, and Why She Didn’t...
There’s been a long conversation on writers being mothers—whether it makes them less efficient writers, the extent to which it ushers them onto a new creative plane. There have been books by mothers...
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Excerpt | Clemantine Wamariya’s Rwandan Genocide Survival Memoir, The Girl...
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After is a devastating, beautiful memoir of Clemantine Wamariya’s survival of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The book, released by Penguin...
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How Contemporary African Novelists Have Embraced Historical Fiction
Most of the best-known Africa-set African novels of the last five years are works of historical fiction: from Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust (2013), from Kenya, and Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu (2014), from...
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