Author Archives
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Q&A: Words on… Noisy Streetss’ ‘Love in Detty December’ anthology, III
Today, we are delighted to share an AiW Words On… Q&A with Modupe Daramola, founder of Noisy Streetss, a dynamic start-up publisher, on a mission, “to tell the authentic stories of young Nigerians and Africans, publishing them both within the… Read More ›
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Q&A: Spotlight Interview with Ellah Wakatama, Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing
With Ellah Wakatama; interview by Doseline Kiguru. Date: 9 December 2024. On the publication of the latest Caine Prize for African Writing short story anthology, Midnight in the Morgue and Other Stories (Cassava Republic Press), our focus on the 2024… Read More ›
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Q&As: Nadia Davids’ ‘Bridling’ – on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Nadia Davids. AiW note – on the 2024 edition of our, now annual, AiW Caine Prize series… Today is the last in our ‘Words On / Caine Prize’ 2024 Shortlist Q&As, and the final of our “twinned” Writer-Publisher… Read More ›
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Q&As: Publishing Nadia Davids’ ‘Bridling’ in The Georgia Review – the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Gerald Maa, editor and director of The Georgia Review. Today, our final Writer-Publisher ‘Words on / Caine Prize’ Q&As, part of our now annual, AiW Caine Prize series, is with publisher Gerald Maa of The Georgia Review (GR), the… Read More ›
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Q&As: Tryphena Yeboah’s ‘The Dishwashing Women’ – on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Tryphena Yeboah. Today, we’re delighted to continue our, now annual, AiW Caine Prize series, with a Writer-Publisher ‘Words on / Caine Prize Q&A’ from writer Tryphena Yeboah, on the shortlist for the 2024 Prize with her story… Read More ›
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Q&As: Publishing Tryphena Yeboah’s ‘The Dishwashing Women’ in Narrative Magazine – the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Tom Jenks, Editor and Co-Founder of Narrative Magazine. AiW note: Today, in the penultimate of the ‘Words on / Caine Prize’ 2024 Shortlist Q&A series, our “twinned” Writer-Publisher Q&A set is with Tom Jenks, editor and co-founder of… Read More ›
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Q&As: Publishing Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s ‘Adjustment of Status’ in New England Review – the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Carolyn Kuebler, editor of New England Review. AiW note: Today, part of our now annual AiW Caine Prize series, is the first of our Writer-Publisher 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Q&A duos, plugging in to our interests in prizes, publication… Read More ›
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Q&As: Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s ‘Adjustment of Status’ – on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Samuel Kọ́láwọlé. AiW note – on our 2024, now annual, AiW Caine Prize series: Continuing our ‘Words On / Caine Prize’ 2024 Shortlist series, in this Q&A, we hear from writer, Samuel Kọ́láwọlé (Nigeria), whose shortlisted story,… Read More ›
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Q&As: Uche Okonkwo’s ‘Animals’ – on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Uche Okonkwo. We’re continuing with a new series of ‘Words On’ Caine Prize Q&As, today featuring the first of our “twinned” sets with two writers whose stories were shortlisted for the 2024 Caine Prize, here with Uche… Read More ›
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Q&As: ‘Pemi Aguda’s ‘Breastmilk’ – on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: ‘Pemi Aguda. AiW note: We’re continuing with a new series of ‘Words On’ Caine Prize Q&As, today featuring the first of our “twinned” sets with two writers whose stories were shortlisted for the 2024 Caine Prize, here… Read More ›
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Q&As: Chika Unigwe, Chair of the Judging Panel – the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
With AiW Guest: Chika Unigwe. AiW note – on the 2024 edition of our, now annual, AiW Caine Prize series… This week, our series of ‘Words on Q&As’ kick off a collaborative series based around the shortlist for the 2024… Read More ›
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Q&A: Words on… SCOLMA, the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa
With AiW Guests, SCOLMA committee members: Ben Carson, Liz Haines, Jenni Skinner, and Charles Fonge. AiW exchanged our Words On… Q&A with SCOLMA committee members on the launch of their recent video series on YouTube, ‘African Studies in the Digital… Read More ›
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Q&A: Kakizi Jemima, curator – Fierce Femmes: Rwandan Women Contemporary Artists
Kakizi Jemima is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. She has curated exhibitions in Rwanda and Switzerland, worked on art projects with UNICEF Rwanda, the Rwanda Art Museum, Girl Effect, Goethe Institute, and Creative Action Institute, and exhibited her work in… Read More ›
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Archives spotlight – Past & Present: Maryse Condé – ‘Segu’ and ‘The History of the Cannibal Woman’
Our #PastAndPresent archive dip today spotlights writer Maryse Condé (11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024), as her work and legacy is threaded through our archive posts. Two ‘couplets’ of reference emerge, set into conversation with each other as they… Read More ›
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Words on…Past & Present: The International Black Speculative Writing Festival (London & Remote)
Just under a week to go, with the last chance saloon doors swinging, we are dipping in to our archives: this AiW #PastAndPresent post may look back but has our sights set firmly forward to the Digital Festival Day (04… Read More ›
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Q&A: Publishing roundtable – #ReadingAfricaWeek
AiW Guests: Maureen Masamba, Azafi Omoluabi, Goretti Kyomuhendo, and Mutesi Gasana, with Jessica Powers. As part of this year’s #ReadingAfricaWeek, in the second part of this publishing series with Africa in Words, Catalyst Press publisher Jessica Powers interviewed four women… Read More ›
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Q&A: Words on… e-Kitabu – the Rights Café, Nairobi International Book Fair
AiW note: With thanks to Catalyst Press who have worked with us to bring you this twinned Q&A… “With increasing global focus on African writing, this new initiative aims to open networks on the continent and to get African writing… Read More ›
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Q&A: Words on… Ambassadors at the Rights Café, Nairobi International Book Fair
AiW note: With thanks to Catalyst Press who have worked with us to bring you this twinned Q&A… “With increasing global focus on African writing, this new initiative aims to open networks on the continent and to get African writing… Read More ›
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Q&As: Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo – Caine Prize shortlist 2023 – winners
AiW note: Today is the last in our series of twinned Caine Prize shortlist 2023 interviews we have been running through the week. A month ago yesterday, on the 2nd October, Senegalese entrant, ‘A Soul of Small Places’ , by… Read More ›
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Q&As: Jendella Benson – Judging the Caine Prize 2023
AiW note: Today marks the last day in the series of twinned Caine Prize shortlist 2023 interviews we have been running through the week. A month ago yesterday, on the 2nd October, Senegalese entrant Woppa Diallo & Mame Bougouma Diene’s… Read More ›
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