AiW Guests Interviewers: Jiali Chen, Josephine Stanton, George Ackerley, Natalia Bielecka Interviewee: Eyob Derillo Interview date: 12 January 2022. AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module “Ethiopian,… Read More ›
Search results for ‘Literatures of the Horn of Africa’
Q&A: Professor Ghirmai Negash – Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series
AiW Guests Interviewers: Mollie McGing, Julia Karpinska, Abolaji Oshun, Alsadiq Suliman Interviewee: Ghirmai Negash Interview Date: 14th December 2021. AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module “Ethiopian,… Read More ›
Q&A: Dr Fiori Berhane – Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series
AiW Guests Interviewers: Emily Bhanu, Madeleine Butler, Madeeha Sharief, Eleanor Walker Interviewee: Dr Fiori Berhane Interview Date: 7th January 2022. AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module… Read More ›
Q&A: Professor Nadia Nurhussein – Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series
AiW Guests Interviewers: Kyra Webb, Sophia Dermetzis and Kal Harris Interviewee: Professor Nadia Nurhussein Interview Date: 7th December 2021. AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews, carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module “Ethiopian,… Read More ›
8-week Literature & Creative Writing Evening Course: Literatures of the Horn of Africa, 21 February to 15 April 2018, Bristol
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL AND THE SOMALI RESOURCE CENTRE INTRODUCE: LITERATURES OF THE HORN OF AFRICA TEXT AND COMMUNITY An 8-week Literature and Creative Writing Course @ Barton Hill Settlement 43 Ducie Rd, Bristol BS5 0AX Tutor: Billy Kahora Day:… Read More ›
Event: What Is Happening in African Literature Today? (Lagos, 31 May)
The Goethe-Institut Nigeria and Wawa Book Review cordially invite you to the Public Conversation, ‘What Is Happening in African Literature Today?’, which offers a platform to literary critics, editors and translators to meet colleagues from different parts of the continent… Read More ›
Q&A Caine 2021: Words on the Times – Goretti Kyomuhendo, Chair of the Judges
With AiW Guest: Goretti Kyomuhendo. AiW note: Last week we ran reviews of each of the five shortlisted stories for the AKO Caine Prize 2021 by five new AiW Guest authors, re-opening our now annual critical conversations and feedback around… Read More ›
A Review of ‘Nairobi Noir’, a collection of short stories edited by Peter Kimani
AiW Guest: Maëline Le Lay. Initially published by Akashic Books, the New York publisher of Kenyan novelist and journalist Peter Kimani (author of the highly regarded Dance of the Jakaranda), this collection of short stories complements the rich collection of “noir”… Read More ›
Review: Zimbabwe’s substitutions, or: what difference would a good or bad past make? Novuyo Rose Tshuma’s ‘House of Stone’ (2018).
AiW Guest: Ranka Primorac. AiW note: After her review of Tshuma’s House of Stone, we were able to catch up with Ranka Primorac for her Words on the Times, an AiW Q&A series running over the last few months, connecting up and… Read More ›
Call for participants: Academic Writing Workshop, Hargeysa International Book Fair (Deadline: 20 May)
Hargeysa International Book Fair Academic Writing Workshop African Literature and Cultural Production in the 21st Century 15-18 July 2019 The Hargeysa International Book Fair, in collaboration with the journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies and the Universities of Bristol… Read More ›