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For Pride Month, The Cheeky Natives Is Sharing Videos of Queer Authors...
Every June is Pride Month: that time of the year when queer people celebrate their very existence in a way that heterosexual people do not because nobody is harassing and murdering heterosexual people...
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Event | Huza Press & Goethe-Institut to Host Launch & Reading of Billy...
Billy Kahora, editor of Kwani? and creative writing lecturer at the University of Bristol, will have his short story collection launched at Huza Press and Goethe-Institut’s KigaliLit event on 14 June....
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Ellah Wakatama Allfrey Joins Canongate as Editor-at-Large for Fiction
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has joined UK publishing house Canongate as editor-at-large for fiction. This is the powerfully influential editor and critic’s second major new role this year, after being...
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Event: The Sudanese Gaze | Dalia Elhassan’s Book Launch of In Half Light,...
The Sudanese poet Dalia Elhassan will be launching her chapbook In Half Light at “The Sudanese Gaze,” a cultural production event in New York City on 21 June. Recently, Elhassan, a finalist for the...
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Dr. Stella Nyanzi Has Now Spent 222 Days in Prison. Ugandans Call for...
In March 2017, Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a leading gender and queer rights scholar, referred to President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda—who has been in power since 1986, for 33 years now—as “a pair of buttocks.”...
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Statement of the African Studies Association Concerning Freedom of Expression...
Statement of the African Studies Association Concerning Freedom of Expression in Sudan (June 2019) The African Studies Association reiterates its solidarity with its academic colleagues in Sudan and...
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Mubanga Kalimamukwento Wins 2019 Kalemba Short Story Prize for Zambian Writing
The 2019 Kalemba Short Story Prize has gone to Mubanga Kalimamukwento, for her short story, “Inswa,” described by the judges as “resonant and gripping.” The $1000 prize, funded and administered by the...
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Nnedi Okorafor’s Broken Places & Outer Spaces, Her 15th Book in 14 Years and...
Nnedi Okorafor’s memoir, Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected, was published yesterday, 18 June, by Simon & Schuster imprint TED Books. It is her first book of...
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Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, Poet, Editor, & Founder of the Stiwanist Movement in...
The Nigerian professor, poet, critic, editor, activist and leading feminist thinker Molara Ogundipe-Leslie has passed on at 78. She died on Tuesday, 18 June, in her home in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State,...
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Earn €1,500 at Goethe-Institut’s U-40 Writers’ Residencies in Burkina Faso |...
The Goethe-Institut/Bureau de liaison in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, has called for applications to its new 2019/2020 residencies for African writers under 40. Open to writers in all...
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The Inaugural Africa Writes – Bristol Festival, an Offshoot of Africa Writes...
In 2017, Africa Writes, the UK’s biggest festival celebrating African literature, moved beyond London for the first time, organizing pop-up events across the country in Edinburgh, Birmingham, and...
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Ellah Wakatama Allfrey & Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Join the Royal Society of...
Caine Prize chair Ellah Wakatama Allfrey and Cassava Republic Press co-founder Bibi Bakare-Yusuf have been inducted into the UK’s Royal Society of Literature (RSL) as Honorary Fellows, a category for...
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Apply to BookArtArea’s Free 5-Day Writing Masterclass with Teju Cole,...
BookArtArea, the educational initiative of Angels and Muse, the popular artists’ co-working space in Lagos, is calling for applications to its free creative writing masterclass. To be taught by Teju...
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Read Chapter One of Nnedi Okorafor’s New Memoir, Broken Places & Outer...
Nnedi Okorafor’s memoir, Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected, was published on 18 June, by Simon & Schuster imprint TED Books. It is her first book of nonfiction...
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Foreword to The Heart of the Matter: The Gerald Kraak Prize Anthology Vol....
The third Gerald Kraak Prize, for 2019, was awarded to the Nigerian writer OluTimehin Adegbeye in May. The Heart of the Matter, the anthology compiling the shortlisted entries for the 2019 prize, was...
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The 2019 Miles Morland Writing Scholarships Now Open for Applications | See...
The Miles Morland Writing Scholarships, the most prestigious literary grant initiative in the continent, are open for submissions for 2019. Created by the Miles Morland Foundation (MMF), one is a...
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Chika Unigwe and TY Bello Share #MeToo Stories, Explaining How Shame and...
In light of criticism and protests in Nigeria against Biodun Fatoyinbo, the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) pastor who has been accused of rape by the photographer Busola Dakolo, the novelist...
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Niq Mhlongo on Why He’s Skeptical of (South African) Literary Prizes
The 2019 Media24 Books Literary Prizes were announced in June, giving out a total of R200,000 in six categories. The prizes honour the best work released in the previous year by Media24 book...
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Richard Akuson, Founder of A Nasty Boy, & Upile Chisala in Forbes Africa’s 30...
Forbes Africa has released its annual 30 under 30 lists for 2019 and on it are the Nigerian LGBTQ+ rights advocate Richard Akuson, founder of the boundary-pushing platform A Nasty Boy, and the...
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Maaza Mengiste’s Forthcoming Novel, The Shadow King, Set During the Italian...
In 2017, we ran a feature on why the Ethiopian writer Maaza Mengiste, who debuted with the acclaimed Beneath the Lion’s Gaze (2010), threw away the first draft of her second novel. That novel, The...
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