AiW Guest: Ranka Primorac, University of Southampton, UK. “This indicates that the Magistrate would need to step back and step aside, to allow for a seeing besides him. Those would be the steps to learn.” Caroline Rooney, African Literature, Animism… Read More ›
With AiW Guest: Leonie B. Predić, including a conversation with Fanny’s D’Or. “You were the key to the doors of space, now you are a scar, a phase” In Chad, listed by Saifaddin Galal’s 2023 research as the least gender… Read More ›
With Ellah Wakatama; interview by Doseline Kiguru. Date: 9 December 2024. On the publication of the latest Caine Prize for African Writing short story anthology, Midnight in the Morgue and Other Stories (Cassava Republic Press), our focus on the 2024… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Tanaka Chidora. AiW note: Today’s post is the final in our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (in full, with more coverage, here). Tanaka Chidora reviews the winning story by Nadia Davids, ‘Bridling’, published in The Georgia Review,… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Beatrice Grace Munala. AiW note: Today’s post continues our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (in full with more here), as Beatrice Munala reviews Ghanaian writer Tryphena Yeboah’s shortlisted story, ‘The Dishwashing Women’, published in Narrative Magazine, in… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Ekari Phiri. AiW note: Ekari’s piece continues our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (the complete Caine Prize series is here), today, of Nigerian writer Samuel Kọ́láwọlé‘s shortlisted story, ‘Adjustment of Status’, published in New England Review, in… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Difrodah Mnyika. AiW note: this is the second in our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (full series here); today, our review is of Nigerian writer Uche Oknonkwo’s shortlisted story, ‘Animals’, published in ZYZZYVA, in 2024. NB: Our… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Spemba Elias Spemba. AiW note: this is the first in our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series, of Nigerian writer ‘Pemi Aguda’s shortlisted story, ‘Breastmilk’, published in One Story, in 2021. NB: Our reviews may contain spoilers! Read… Read More ›
With AiW Guests: Chris Abani, Kwame Dawes, Joanne Hichens, and Hilda Twongyeirwe.Edited by: Ashawnta Jackson and Jessica Powers for #readingAfrica 2024 (Catalyst Press). Jackson and Powers: Anthologies offer readers the opportunity to explore multiple writers — their voices, experiences, and… Read More ›
AiW Guests: Ucheoma Onwutuebe and Lydia Mathis. AiW note: what follows is an email conversation between Nigerian writer Ucheoma Onwutuebe and 2023 Editorial Fellow at New York based literary magazine A Public Space, Lydia Mathis, held in October 2023. With… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Tikondwe Chimkowola-Kadaluka. Elizabeth Allua Vaah’s Maame (Mawenzi House, 2020) is not just another clichéd tale about motherhood. Rather, it ties together a myriad of issues, with a special focus on how motherhood can be experienced variously in Ghana…. Read More ›
Le Devoir de Violence / Bound to Violence, by Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem was republished earlier this year as a Penguin Modern Classic, a series of books self-defined as “shaping the reading habits of generations since 1961.”
AiW Guest: Kris Van der Bijl. Kharys Ateh Laue’s debut prose work Sketches (MDL SEE, 2023) is recognisably a travelogue. In it, a South African protagonist-narrator travels across three countries, accompanied by her friend, Raph. Like most travelogues, it utilizes… Read More ›
Our #PastAndPresent archive dip today spotlights writer Maryse Condé (11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024), as her work and legacy is threaded through our archive posts. Two ‘couplets’ of reference emerge, set into conversation with each other as they… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Virginia Kelly Before Them, We (flipped eye, London, 2022) is a beautiful anthology of poems and collection of photographs curated by Ruth Sutoyé and Jacob Sam-La Rose. Part of a longer interdisciplinary project to excavate the lives and… Read More ›
Just under a week to go, with the last chance saloon doors swinging, we are dipping in to our archives: this AiW #PastAndPresent post may look back but has our sights set firmly forward to the Digital Festival Day (04… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Ademola Adesola. Lola Akande’s latest novel, The Truth about Sadia (Tunmike Publishers, 2023), follows Sadia Onaolapo Oyelowo’s journey from childhood to adulthood. Set in a recognizable Lagos, Nigeria, so crucial is Sadia to the novel that every “truth”… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Sanya Osha …with a longer form read for us, at around 2.5k words… The recent ‘cancellation’ of Die Antwoord – the South African ‘zef’ subculture-proclaiming, alternative hip hop duo – and their subsequent withdrawal from the public eye,… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè. Odafe Atogun’s début novel, Taduno’s Song (2016), is an extended allegory about a people living through the tangle of social oppression and its attendant anxieties. Through a focus on music, specifically voice and song, it explores… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Pernille Nailor. AiW note: this is one of two linked reviews of Emeritus Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham, Karin Barber’s latest book, A History of African Popular Culture (2018, Cambridge UP), with our thanks… Read More ›
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