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• It’s Not Easy Being Green: A Review of Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 9 June , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Graham Riach Henrietta Rose-Innes’s latest novel opens with drifter Constantine on his way to retrieve the belongings of his childhood friend and one-time crush, zookeeper Mark Carolissen. Mark lies bandaged in hospital after a mauling by a rare black-maned… Read More ›

• 2016 Caine Prize Shortlist: Review of Abdul Adan’s “The Lifebloom Gift”

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 2 June , 2016 • ( 9 )

  

  It’s Caine Prize season again! Before the judges’ announcement on 4th July, we’re having a look at each of the shortlisted stories. This week, Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva reviews Abdul Adan’s “The Lifebloom Gift.” AiW Guest: Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva “The Lifebloom Gift” will be remembered as one of the… Read More ›

• Review: Best “New” African Poets 2015 Anthology

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 30 May , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Rashi Rohatgi Best “New” African Poets 2015 Anthology Anthologie Des Meilleures “Nouveaux” Poètes Africains 2015 Antologia Dos Melhores “Novos” Poetas Africanos 2015 “We couldn’t give poets topics because we are not Africa. We didn’t want to determine what Africa… Read More ›

• Review: Things We Lost in the Fire by Vuyelwa Maluleke

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 26 May , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Toni Stuart  Vuyelwa Maluleke’s Things We Lost in the Fire is a meditation on all that still lies broken within and between South Africans. It is at once a meditation on the woundedness of South Africa’s black men, and,… Read More ›

• Review: A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 12 May , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Matthew Lecznar A General Theory of Oblivion tells the real life story of Ludovica Fernandes Mano, a Portuguese woman who spent most of her life in Luanda, Angola. The narrative is framed by Ludo’s remarkable decision to brick herself… Read More ›

• Deep Rivulets of Feeling: A Review of Viola Allo’s Bird from Africa

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 28 April , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tamara Moellenberg This month, Tamara Moellenberg continues our deep dive into Eight New Generation African Poets with a review of Viola Allo’s Bird from Africa. Here is a poet who writes from herself, who seeks to express, not impress–though impress she… Read More ›