AiW note: With thanks to Catalyst Press who have worked with us to bring you this twinned Q&A… “With increasing global focus on African writing, this new initiative aims to open networks on the continent and to get African writing… Read More ›
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Q&As: Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo – Caine Prize shortlist 2023 – winners
AiW note: Today is the last in our series of twinned Caine Prize shortlist 2023 interviews we have been running through the week. A month ago yesterday, on the 2nd October, Senegalese entrant, ‘A Soul of Small Places’ , by… Read More ›
Q&As: Jendella Benson – Judging the Caine Prize 2023
AiW note: Today marks the last day in the series of twinned Caine Prize shortlist 2023 interviews we have been running through the week. A month ago yesterday, on the 2nd October, Senegalese entrant Woppa Diallo & Mame Bougouma Diene’s… Read More ›
Q&As: Tlotlo Tsamaase – Caine Prize shortlist 2023
AiW note: The penultimate day in our continuing Words on… Q&A series this week – a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023 – sees writer Tlotlo Tsamaase (Botswana) talk with… Read More ›
Q&As: Eli Goldman (Editor) – Publishing the Caine Prize shortlist 2023
AiW note: This is the penultimate day in our continuing Words on… Q&A series this week, a range of interviews around the shortlist for UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. In the lead up to… Read More ›
Q&As: Yejide Kilanko – Caine Prize shortlist 2023
AiW note: We’re going into day 2 in our continuing Words on… Q&A series this week, publishing a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. A few firsts have re-shaped the… Read More ›
Q&As: Kadija George Sesay – Judging the Caine Prize 2023
AiW note: We’re into day 2 in our continuing Words on… Q&A series this week, publishing a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. A few firsts have re-shaped the Prize… Read More ›
Q&As: Yvonne Kusiima – Caine Prize shortlist 2023
AiW note: Continuing our new Words on… Q&A series, this week, we are publishing a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. There have been a few notable firsts that have… Read More ›
Q&As: Ukamaka Olisakwe – Publishing the Caine Prize shortlist 2023
AiW note: Continuing our new Words on… Q&A series, this week, we are publishing a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. There have been a few notable firsts that have… Read More ›
Words on… Poetry Africa, with Lethu Nkwanyana, South African Slam Champion 2023
Poetry Africa announces the South Africa Poetry Slam Champion on Instagram. AiW note: This post in the “Words on… Poetry Africa” Q&A series is brought to you in collaboration with the Poetry Africa festival 2023, and is with the Festival’s… Read More ›
Words on… Poetry Africa 2023, with Indigene ‘Gene’ Corefio
AiW note: This marks the latest in our new “Words on… Poetry Africa” Q&A series, brought to you in collaboration with the Poetry Africa festival 2023, which is running this year across 3 cities (Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein) from the 5th… Read More ›
Words on… Poetry Africa 2023, with Solly Ramatswi, aka Soetry
AiW note: This is the second in our new “Words on…” Q&A series in collaboration with Poetry Africa 2023. Taking place from the 5th to the 17th October, this year across the three South African cities (Johannesburg, Durban and Bloemfontein),… Read More ›
Words on… Poetry Africa 2023, with Featured Poet, Eugene Skeef
AiW note: We’re delighted to share a range of new “Words on…” Q&As in collaboration with Poetry Africa. The 5th October marked the start of this year’s, the 27th, Poetry Africa festival: Poetry Africa is an annual international poetry festival curated… Read More ›
Q&A / Calls for… Nozipho Wabatagore and ‘Queer Africa: Resilience and Hopeful Now’
AiW note: this is the first in a welcome return for us at AiW to posts in the “Calls for…” category – calling for submissions to events, collections, issues, awards, all and sundries, etc. – in this case, for creative… Read More ›
Q&A: Serawit Bekele Debele —Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series
AiW Guests Interviewers: Farida Elshafei, Ilana Graham, Lauryn Jenkins, Noha Choudhry. Interviewee: Serawit Bekele Debele. Interview Date: 14th December 2021 AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module… Read More ›
Q&A: Eyob Derillo– Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series
AiW Guests Interviewers: Jiali Chen, Josephine Stanton, George Ackerley, Natalia Bielecka Interviewee: Eyob Derillo Interview date: 12 January 2022. AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module “Ethiopian,… Read More ›
Q&A: Professor Ghirmai Negash – Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series
AiW Guests Interviewers: Mollie McGing, Julia Karpinska, Abolaji Oshun, Alsadiq Suliman Interviewee: Ghirmai Negash Interview Date: 14th December 2021. AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module “Ethiopian,… Read More ›
Q&A: Dr Fiori Berhane – Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series
AiW Guests Interviewers: Emily Bhanu, Madeleine Butler, Madeeha Sharief, Eleanor Walker Interviewee: Dr Fiori Berhane Interview Date: 7th January 2022. AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module… Read More ›
Review Q&A: Ayaan Mohamud with her World Book Night listed YA novel, You Think You Know Me.
AiW note: This year, Sunday 23rd April is World Book Night. Running over the evening of the UNESCO International Day of the Book— whose theme this year is indigenous languages — World Book Night is a UK-sprung celebration of reading… Read More ›
Review and Q&A: Leila Aboulela’s ‘River Spirit’ – Rewriting the Footnotes of Sudanese Colonial History
AiW note: AiW editor Ellen Addis reviews Leila Aboulela’s novel, River Spirit (Saqi Books), a historical fiction narrative which takes place in 1880s Sudan and tracks the rise of the Mahdist Revolution. Accompanying the review today is Ellen’s Q&A with… Read More ›
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