Author Archives
A series of Guest Author posts that open our conversations.
For more info, bios and links about each of our AiW Guests, scroll to the foot of their individual posts.
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Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Niran Okewole
AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Niran Okewole is the author of the widely-acclaimed Logarhythms. His poems have won the MUSON Festival Poetry Prizes in 2002 and 2003, and the Sawubona Music Jam/Berlin International Poetry Festival Prize in 2008. The Hate Artist is his latest… Read More ›
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Warsaw in the 1980’s Through African Eyes
AiW Guest Mamadou Diouf AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe, with this guest piece by Mamadou Diouf. I have lived in Warsaw for over thirty years, but I still remember January 1983. There was an on-going… Read More ›
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“In from the Cold War”: a colloquium on Eastern Europe, Africa and cultural diplomacy during the cold war
AiW Guest: Iolanda Vasile This week, AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe with this guest piece by Iolanda Vasile about the colloquium “In from the Cold War: Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War”, organized… Read More ›
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“I write what I like”: Aké Arts & Book Festival 2016 in Abeokuta, Nigeria
AiW Guest: Nathan Suhr-Sytsma The fourth incarnation of the Aké Arts & Book Festival took place 15-19 November 2016, in Abeokuta, Nigeria, the birthplace of Wole Soyinka, and shares a name with Soyinka’s classic memoir of his childhood, Aké. The… Read More ›
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‘El Hadji Sy. At First I Thought I was Dancing’ in Warsaw: Process, Collectivity and Multiple Interpretations
AiW Guest: Karolina Marcinkowska This week, AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her new series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe, with this guest piece by Karolina Marcinowska about an exhibition by artist El Hadji Sy in Warsaw, Poland. The exhibit titled El Hadji… Read More ›
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Establishing a New Literary Prize: The Huza Press Award for Fiction
AiW Guest: Louise Umutoni As part of Writivism 2016, University of Bristol, Stellenbosch University and the Centre for African Cultural Excellence collaborated to bring together an Arts Management and Literary Entrepreneurship Workshop. This four-day workshop held in August in Kampala… Read More ›
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Why is Translation Important?: Publishing African Literature Across Languages
AiW Guest: Edwige-Renée DRO As part of Writivism 2016, University of Bristol, Stellenbosch University and the Centre for African Cultural Excellence collaborated to bring together an Arts Management and Literary Entrepreneurship Workshop. This four-day workshop held in August in Kampala… Read More ›
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Film (p)review: ‘My Name is Adil’ – a lyrical autobiography of displacement and hope
AiW Author: Sarah Jilani Sarah Jilani previews My Name is Adil, which is showing this week in selected cinemas as part of the Royal African Society’s Film Africa festival 2016, running from Oct 28 – Nov 6 in London. Catch My Name is… Read More ›
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Q&A: Safia Elhillo on her Sillerman Prize-winning collection January Children
Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, a Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor at Kinfolks Quarterly: a journal of black expression, Safia Elhillo received an MFA in poetry at the New School. Safia is a Pushcart Prize nominee, co-winner of… Read More ›
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Nigerian Cinema: A Renaissance in Making
AiW Guest: Dare Dan 1998: An Onitsha man arrives in Lagos at the Surulere offices of Zeb Ejiro, a movie producer. He offers cash to make an instant movie named Scores to Settle (1998), directed by Nigerian auteur Chico Ejiro… Read More ›
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Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Obiwu
AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez ‘Poetry is sometimes the only glimmer of hope in the darkest corners and most difficult conditions of life.’ – Obiwu Obiwu teaches English in the Department of Humanities, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, United States…. Read More ›
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Sahel Sounds: Inspiration from West Africa
AiW Guest: Kev Kelly This post originally appeared on Sign Records’ blog and is re-published with their permission. We love Sahel Sounds. Set up by the adventurous Christopher Kirkley, it started as a project to release interesting and rare music… Read More ›
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Eric 1Key’s Entre 2: Gene Aise, 1Key’s life story
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the final post in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kiswahili and French to… Read More ›
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Eric 1Key’s Entre 2: a ‘story about a hero and a coward’
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the third in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French… Read More ›
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Eric 1Key’s Entre 2 -Virtually Yours, an ‘online love story’
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the second in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French to English. We are… Read More ›
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Rwandan hip-hop poet Eric 1Key: Entre 2
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the first in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French to English. We… Read More ›
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An Interview with Prof. Ernest Nneji Emenyonu on Pita Nwana’s Omenuko
AiW Guest: Kalapi Sen It is a truism in today’s world that ‘African literature’ covers a major portion of literary scholarship, included now on high-school syllabi as well as at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. And one name that has… Read More ›
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Les Blancs – Farber’s production provoked reflection on innocence, the personal and the political, and choosing sides
AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin The National Theatre’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, Les Blancs, directed by Yaël Farber, involved phenomenal use of sound, music and lighting, live fire on stage, and a nuanced mastery of the smallest details: from the… Read More ›
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Review: Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
AiW Author Sarah Jilani With her faithful old Porsche Buttercup, her toe-rings and her zest for life, Dr. Morayo Da Silva is a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman whose 75th birthday is just around the corner. A retired English professor, her love… Read More ›
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Caine Prize 2016: “Memories We Lost”—The Text, Its Readers and the World, a review by Pede Hollist
AiW Guest Pede Hollist The biography at the end of “Memories We Lost” quotes South African writer, filmmaker, and photographer Lidudumalingani as saying, “I am fascinated by mental illnesses, having seen my own extended relatives deal with it.” He also… Read More ›
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