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The Longlist for the 2018 Golden Baobab Prize Announced
The longlist for the 2018 Golden Baobab Prize is out. The prizes provide opportunities for African writers and illustrators to produce more culturally-relevant children’s books. They are organized by...
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Photos from the 2nd Edition of the Write With Style Workshop in Lagos
The second edition of Oris Aigbokhaevbolo’s Write with Style Workshop took place in Ikeja, Lagos on 24 and 25 November 2018. Aigbokhaevbolo, who was named Entertainment Journalist of the Year at the...
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Erotic Africa: The Sex Anthology Forthcoming in December
Twelve months after the call for submissions was made in January, we are happy to announce that Erotic Africa: The Sex Anthology will arrive on our website on 15 December. The anthology, edited by...
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Yrsa Daley-Ward’s The Terrible Makes Vogue’s Must-Read Books of 2018
Nigerian-Jamaican model-turned-Instapoet Yrsa Daley-Ward’s memoir The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir has been named among Vogue magazine’s Must-Read Books of 2018. The follow up to her 2014 debut,...
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Cyprian Ekwensi’s The Passport of Mallam Ilia Gets Animation Movie | Watch...
Cyprian Ekwensi’s popular novel The Passport of Mallam Ilia is being made into an animated movie. Premium Times reports that the 2D feature project is being undertaken by Magic Carpet Studios in...
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Zimbabwean Mapping Project Documents the Movements of Dambudzo Marechera in...
An unusual mapping project has documented the movements of Dambudzo Marechera in Harare. “Home Means Nothing to Me,” published in the June 2018 issue of Chimurenga’s The Chronic titled “The Invention...
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Erotic Africa: The Sex Anthology | Read e-Book Exploring Millennial Sex...
Much has been said about the state of sex in African literature: whether African novelists are keen on sex, why writers approach sex the way they do, and we even ran a brief series, “Sex in African...
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Rapper-Turned-Novelist Gael Faye’s Small Country Stirringly Captures a Dark...
France-based Burundian artist Gael Faye has met success since stepping into literature from hip hop. His novel Small Country, first published in French in 2016 as Petit Pays, came out in English in...
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The 2018 Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature Announces...
The poetry and fiction shortlists for the 2018 Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature have been announced. They are comprised of manuscripts from Kenya and Tanzania. Founded in 2014 by...
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The 2018 Brittle Paper African Literary Person of the Year Is Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
The Brittle Paper African Literary Person of the Year recognizes individuals who work behind the scenes to hold up the African literary establishment in the given year. Our 2018 honour goes to Dr....
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Who Is More Left Than the Other? Growing McCarthyism and Fatima Bhutto’s...
A year ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie found herself in the eye of a Leftwing storm. In an interview about feminism, she had said that transgender women who used to be men did not suffer discrimination...
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From Hip Hop to Literature: Meet Gael Faye, Burundi-born French-Rwandan...
“WHEN I GROW up I want to be a mechanic, so nothing ever stays broken in my life,” says Gaby, the 10-year-old narrator of Small Country, the English translation of the French-language novel Petit...
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Noo Saro Wiwa Named Among World’s Most Influential Travellers of 2018,...
Nigeria’s leading travel writer Noo Saro-Wiwa has been included in luxury and lifestyle travel publication Conde Nast Traveller‘s 30-name list of the “World’s Most Influential Women Travellers” of...
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Twelve months after the call for submissions was made in January, we are happy to announce that Erotic Africa: The Sex Anthology will arrive on our website on 15 December. The anthology, edited by...
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Vanguard Literary Services Calls for Submissions to 2019 Valentine’s Day...
Nigerian book marketing company Vanguard Literary Services (VLS) is compiling a romance and sexuality-themed anthology, for the 2019 Valentine’s Day, and is calling for short story submissions. While...
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Brittle Paper Award Winner Itiola Jones Will Be Teaching an Online Poetry...
Brittle Paper Award for Poetry 2018 winner Itiola Jones will be teaching an online poetry workshop. Now in its third year, The Singing Bullet Workshop, held in April, the National Poetry Month, is...
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Kwame Dawes, Zoe Wicomb, Gabeba Baderoon, Juliane Okot Bitek Lead 2019...
Thirty-four writers, filmmakers, visual artists, and musicians have been shortlisted for the 2019 Artists In Residency (AIR) programme, including Africa Poetry Book Fund (APBF) and Prairie Schooner...
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Kabaka Magazine, Co-founded by Romeo Oriogun and Chibuihe Achimba, Is Set to...
In late 2016, the Nigerian poets Romeo Oriogun and Chibuihe Achimba began discussing the possibility of creating a platform for queer writers. Both writers had no clout then, no precedent to model...
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At 81, Ngugi wa Thiong’o Announces 34th Book, a Gikuyu Philosophical Epic...
Thirteen years after his last novel Wizard of the Crow, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who turned 81 on 5 January, has a new one forthcoming. Kenda Muiyuru: Rugano Rwa Gikuyu na Mumbi, published in Gikuyu by East...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is Now on Twitter
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who began personally using her Facebook page in 2016 and who joined Instagram in 2017, is now on Twitter. The move was made by the author to forestall impersonators. In the...
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