Africa Utopia Southbank Centre, London Thursday 11th – Sunday 14th September 2014 Following 2012’s sensational first edition, Africa Utopia is back for 2014 to once again look at what can be learnt and celebrated from Africa and the African diaspora…. Read More ›
The Zakes Mda session at the Edinburgh Book Festival, ‘No artist is subject to the state’, unfolded in all the best senses of the term. Chaired by Zoë Wicomb – who is succinctly described in The Scotsman as “a writer… Read More ›
Africa in Words, in association with the African Studies Association UK, Writing Our Legacy and Urbanflo Creative Partnerships, is delighted to present: WRITING EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA: ACROSS GENRES IN PROSE Readings with authors Billy Kahora, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and… Read More ›
AiW Guest: James Smith. During the Edinburgh International Book Festival I managed to catch three South African authors, Lauren Buekes and C.A. Davids, and Mark Gevisser. Three authors, writing in three different genres (although I realize that ‘genre’ in itself… Read More ›
An Edinburgh International Book Festival session with Damon Galgut: Arctic Summer (Umuzi/Atlantic, 2014). Part of the Book Festival’s ‘Voices from South Africa’ theme. Chaired by Claire Armitstead (Books Editor at the Guardian and the Observer). Arctic Summer is South African writer… Read More ›
Saraba Magazine is excited to share the newest issue of the magazine published with the theme of “Solitude.” This forty-page issue includes poems by Saddiq Dzukogi, Olajide Salawu, Rasaq Gbolahan, Ajoke, Paul Njoroge, Kechi Nomu, Sihle Ntuli, Ekweremadu Uchenna, Yusuff… Read More ›
AiW Guest Emma Shercliff Review of panel discussion with Bibi Bakare-Yusuf of Cassava Republic Press; Valerie Brandes of Jacaranda Books; Verna Wilkins of Tamarind Books and Susan Yearwood, agent and founder of Susan Yearwood Literary Agency. Chaired by Simi Dosekun…. Read More ›
Hot on the heels of Okwiri Oduor’s Caine Prize win for ‘My Father’s Head’, published through Short Story Day Africa, SSDA announced the long list of eighteen stories that will make up their 2014 anthology, Terra Incognita, in August, and now,… Read More ›
AiW guest: James Smith. Broken Monsters and Broken Dreams I read Broken Monsters on a night flight from Cape Town, on my way to interview Lauren Beukes following her contribution to the Edinburgh Book Festival (2014 edition). It made the… Read More ›
ASAUK Conference 2014 University of Sussex Tuesday 9th – Thursday 11th September Programme The conference programme is made up of an exciting range of panel discussions and keynote speeches. The full programme for the conference can be downloaded here. Highlights include: 9th September… Read More ›
Africa in Words is very excited to be back at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year, “the world’s largest public celebration of the written word, right in the heart of Edinburgh”. Tickets for all events are available now from the… Read More ›
Opening a panel on travel writing at the Royal Africa Society’s Africa Writes festival in London, panel chair Fatimah Kelleher observed that travel writing has often been a narrow genre in the past, dominated by Western perspectives on the world…. Read More ›
For the new issue of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic, the focus is on graphic stories; comic journalism. Blending illustrations, photography, written analysis, infographics, interviews, letters and more, visual narratives speak of everyday complexities in the Africa in which we… Read More ›
Today, more and more literary events happen online. Readers argue over the plotlines of serialized ‘Facebook fiction.’ Writers tweet entire novels. And a Google Hangout with an author will draw a larger crowd than a signing at a local bookstore…. Read More ›
NEWS (no longer quite breaking): A. Gofer (c/o Steph Newell) has won the inaugural International Aubrey Tearle Proofreader’s Derby (fittingly restlessly re-named from the 2014 Restless Derby). The neck-and-neck runners up are Catharine Morris aka Words and Things, and Kai… Read More ›
Conference and Book Launch Friday 4 July 2014 10am – 6pm Racism, Writing and Resistance: British Diasporic Literature in English and Vernaculars Manchester Central Library Performance Space, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD We have seen a decade of re-energised racism and… Read More ›
Africa Writes Friday 11 – Sunday 13 July 2014 The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Africa Writes – the Royal African Society’s annual literature and book festival promoting contemporary African writing – returns to The British Library…. Read More ›
“Chronicles Of The Enchanted World” Paintings and Sculptural Installations by Victor Ehikhamenor, 21 May – 19 July 2014 Gallery of African Art, London
| online | Norwich | London | Brighton | Cambridge | with J.M. Coetzee and No Violet Bulawayo at the Worlds Literature Festival in Norwich, 19 June And Patrick Flanery for ‘Camera Obscura: a View of South Africa’, 25 June… Read More ›
The 2014 Writivism Festival 18-22 June 2014 National Theatre, Kampala, Uganda The 2014 Writivism Festival provides a platform for the enjoyment and production of high quality African arts and culture. Held every year in Kampala, Uganda, the Festival attracts all… Read More ›
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