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.

• ‘Without warning, everything became possible’: pulp fiction and the rise of Jungle Jim

  By Africa in Words Guest on 5 December , 2012 • ( 12 )

  AiW Guest Alexander Howard.  1. As the author and editor Jenna Bass points out in the first instalment of her recent interview with Katie Reid of Africa in Words, the bi-monthly fiction magazine Jungle Jim arose out of a shared desire… Read More ›

• Jim in the Urban Jungle – South African print culture and Jungle Jim

  By Africa in Words Guest on 4 December , 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Ed Charlton.  As an intervention into the formal space of South African print culture, Jungle Jim is certainly daring and distinctive. If not an entirely unique mode of literary production, its pulp ’zine format is, nonetheless, a marked… Read More ›

• African Book Festival, London, 26th-27th October 2012

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 November , 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Kate Nkanza. When I first heard about the African Book Festival, I was so excited that I paid for my pass for two days straight away.

• Africa Express, London, September 8th 2012

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 September , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  AiW Guest Anthony Leaker. http://www.africaexpress.co.uk/ For those of you who can’t be bothered to read a long post here’s the conclusion: it was fantastic; you missed out; a genuinely once in a lifetime experience of incredible musicians and energised, inspiring, and… Read More ›