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.

• Q&A – Ayo Oyeku Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 April , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Today we bring you an inspiring Words on the Times – a Q&A series initiated to connect up our experiences of life and work as the pandemic hit – with writer and publisher Ayo Oyeku. Ayo Oyeku is a… Read More ›

• Q&A: On the NLNG Prize for Literary Criticism – Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè talks with 2020/21 prize winner, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 March , 2022 • ( 1 )

  

   AiW Guests: Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè and NLNG Prize for Literary Criticism winner 2020/2021, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike. AiW note: We are very pleased to be able to share this conversation between writers and literary journalists, particularly for Adégòkè’s focus in on some… Read More ›

• Q&A – iwalewabooks Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 January , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Today we bring you an inspiring Words on the Times – a Q&A series initiated to connect up our experiences of life and work as the pandemic hit – with the publishing house iwalewabooks. iwalewabooks is a publishing… Read More ›

• Q&A: Dr. Emmanuel E. Akanwa Interviews Gil Ndi-Shang on his newest collection, The Radio and Other Stories

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 January , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  With AiW Guests: Emmanuel E. Akanwa and Gil Ndi-Shang. AiW note: The Radio and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Cameroonian writer, Gil Ndi-Shang, recently released with Spears Books. “In The Radio and Other Stories, the scholar and the… Read More ›

• “Our discomfort, my discomfort”: a review of ‘Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global City’.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 12 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Kagiso Nko. It is part of how Joburg narrates itself, in particular to itself. Editors’ Introduction – Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden. AiW note: This review of Anxious Joburg (Wits UP) was completed before our accompanying Review… Read More ›

• Q&A – Siphiwo Mahala: Imbiza Journal for African Writing Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 29 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Siphiwo Mahala. AIW note: Today we offer a Words on the Times Q&A from Siphiwo Mahala, Editor of Imbiza Journal for African Writing. Our Words on the Times series (available at the link) was initiated in April 2020… Read More ›

• Words on the Times & Call for Entries: Paige Nick, the GBAS Book Cover Design Awards 2021

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

    AiW Guest: Paige Nick. AiW note: today we bring you a combination post ~ a Words on the Times with Paige Nick – founder of The Good Book Appreciation Society, a Book Club on Facebook with over 16,000 members,… Read More ›

• Spotlight on… Ola Rotimi: The Revival of a Humanist

  By Africa in Words Guest on 22 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Sanya Osha.With Osha’s Words on the Times – a Q&A subset inititated to connect us up in our experiences of the pandemic – below… Ola Rotimi is a major Nigerian dramatist who passed away in 2000. Some of… Read More ›

• Review~ Revisiting Home: Language and Identity in Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie’s ‘Born in a Second Language’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 19 October , 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Victor Zuze. Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie’s chapbook, Born in a Second Language (Button Poetry, July 2021), proves to be rich and complete. This owes to her storytelling prowess. She does not waste words. Her lines are suffused with striking… Read More ›

• Q&A – Anthony Molosi (Botswana): Poetry Africa Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Anthony Molosi.AiW note: In collaboration with Poetry Africa – presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal – we offer here a mini-series of our Words on the Times Q&As, with poets who are… Read More ›

• Q&A – Andriy Lyubka (Ukraine): Poetry Africa Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 13 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Andriy Lyubka AiW note: In collaboration with Poetry Africa – presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal – we offer here a mini-series of our Words on the Times Q&As, with poets who… Read More ›

• Q&A – W.charly (Cameroon): Poetry Africa Words on the Times (en français)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 12 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Wassing Wadaï Charles, aka W.charly
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  After yesterday’s opening Q&A with Christine Yohannes (Ethiopia), today we share Poetry Africa Poets’ Words on the Times responses from slam artist Wassing Wadaï Charles, aka Charly (note – les réponses de Charly sont en français), below…

• Q&A – Christine Yohannes (Ethiopia): Poetry Africa Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 11 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Christine Yohannes. AiW note: In collaboration with Poetry Africa, we are excited to share the first in a mini-series of Words on the Times Q&As with poets who are participating in the ‘powering up’ and ‘unmuting’ that is… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – TVOTRIBE

  By Africa in Words Guest on 16 September , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: We are happy to be able to share here a Q&A with the founder of online writing and creative arts community TVOTRIBE, Victoria Olajide. In 2021, TVOTRIBE celebrated their second anniversary with activities positioned around the theme “The… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Sandra Chege of Hadithi

  By Africa in Words Guest on 10 September , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Dear Reader, When last did you send a loved one a hand-written letter, or go to the post office expecting to receive one? When did you last begin a letter, on paper or in its pre-material compositional stage, and what… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Eriye Onagoruwa, author of “Dear Alaere”, & Ibiso Graham-Douglas, founder of Paperworth Books Ltd

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 August , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: We are delighted to be able to share here a set of Q&As based around the novel Dear Alaere, published by Paperworth Books in 2020. Both the author, Eriye Onagoruwa, and the book’s publisher and founder of Paperworth… Read More ›

• AiW long read: Caine 2021 – A prize coming of age

  By Africa in Words Guest on 24 August , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Doseline Kiguru AiW note: As with every year since “Joining the Caine Prize ‘Blog-Carnival’” back in 2013 — Africa in Words has engaged with the AKO Caine Prize for African Writers in the run up to the winner… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – author and educator Priscilla Musoki, Gogo Diaries Sweden

  By Africa in Words Guest on 17 August , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Gogo Diaries Sweden is run by Zimbabwean author and educationist Priscilla Musoki, bridging the gap she has seen for children in the Diaspora by publishing bilingual books in the pandemic, grounded in a grandmother’s wisdom and love, storytelling… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Mazi Nwonwu of Omenana magazine

  By Africa in Words Guest on 13 August , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Omenana is a tri-monthly magazine by Mazi Nwonwu (Co-founder and Managing Editor), Chinelo Onwualu (Co-founder), Iquo DianaAbasi (Contributing Editor), and Godson ChukwuEmeka Okeiyi (Graphic Designer); it is open to submissions from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Kikwetu: A Journal of East African Literature

  By Africa in Words Guest on 11 August , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: Kikwetu is an annual online literary journal that publishes both new and established writers from East Africa and beyond in English and Swahili.   The journal was born out of a Nairobi-based writing group in 2015, and is run… Read More ›