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• Caine Prize 2020: Review of Jowhor Ile’s “Fisherman’s Stew”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: AiW’s annual review series of what is now the AKO Caine Prize is back. We’ve been talking about prize culture for a long time at Africa in Words; Kate Wallis’s post on our joining the Caine Prize “blogathon” back in… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020 & Africa Writes. Q&A: “[I]nvite our audiences to meditate on joy and re-center our humanity”: Ifeanyi Awachie’s Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 20 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: In the first of Africa Writes’ online events this year, Ifeanyi Awachie, London-based Igbo curator and writer, will be in conversation with the 2020 AKO Caine Prize shortlisted writers this evening, Monday 20th July at 19.00 BST (20.00… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020: Fiction masquerading as nonfiction: A Review of Chikodili Emelumadu’s “What to do When Your Child Brings Home a Mami Wata”

  By JoannaWoods on 17 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: AiW’s annual review series of what is now the AKO Caine Prize is back. We’ve been talking about prize culture for a long time at Africa in Words; Kate Wallis’s post on our joining the Caine Prize “blogathon” back in… Read More ›

• Review: Zimbabwe’s substitutions, or: what difference would a good or bad past make? Novuyo Rose Tshuma’s ‘House of Stone’ (2018).

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Ranka Primorac. AiW note: After her review of Tshuma’s House of Stone, we were able to catch up with Ranka Primorac for her Words on the Times, an AiW Q&A series running over the last few months, connecting up and… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020: “Every day is today”: A Review of Rémy Ngamije’s “The Neighbourhood Watch”

  By Ellen Addis on 10 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: AiW’s annual review series of what is now the AKO Caine Prize is back. We’ve been talking about prize culture for a long time at Africa in Words; Kate Wallis’s post on our joining the Caine Prize “blogathon” back… Read More ›

• Q&A: Débọ̀ Awẹ́ on his Yoruba-language literary career

  By Rebecca Jones on 9 July , 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  Débọ̀ Awẹ́ is a writer, a retired secondary school headteacher and a minister of God in Praise for Christ Ministries International. He is also the CEO of Elyon Publishers, a publishing company in Iléṣà, Ọ̀șun State, Nigeria, where he lives…. Read More ›

• In other Words… AiW’s news and June wrap

  By Africa in Words on 7 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  As we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, we catch up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Please be in touch with any other ways and… Read More ›

• 2018 Africa Writes #P&P – ‘The archive of my life’: The UK pre-launch of Akwaeke Emezi’s autobiographical novel ‘Freshwater’

  By Africa in Words on 5 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Sana Goyal’s piece covering Africa Writes’ 2018 pre-launch of the UK edition of Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel, Freshwater, brings our range of #PastAndPresent posts over this first weekend in July 2020 – the weekend the in-person festival would… Read More ›

• 2017 Africa Writes #P&P Highlights Reel: 2017 Caine Prize Conversation

  By Africa in Words on 5 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: If AiW memory serves, since at least 2014, Africa Writes has hosted the Caine Prize shortlisted writers in conversation, prior to the announcement of the winner in July. At AiW, we’ve been reviewing the shortlisted stories and thinking… Read More ›

• 2015 Africa Writes #P&P – Losing my Head Because: Ben Okri’s Meditations on Greatness

  By Africa in Words on 5 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Bwesigye Bwa Mesigire’s reflections on Ben Okri’s headline event for the 2015 Africa Writes Festival form part of our #PastAndPresent weekend of re-posts of coverage of the festival over the years (from 2013-2018). The full timetable of our… Read More ›

• 2014 Africa Writes #P&P – What space is there for African travel writing? ‘Broadening the Gaze’

  By Africa in Words on 5 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Rebecca Jones was at the 2014 Africa Writes Festival in London. We republish her coverage of the African & Diaspora Travel Writing panel here as part of our Africa Writes #PastAndPresent weekender, anticipating the online conversations of the… Read More ›

• 2013 Africa Writes #P&P – Q&A: Poet, writer and educator Warsan Shire

  By Africa in Words on 5 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: this republication of a 2013 in-depth (long) and rich (vibrantly so) conversation between poet and activist Warsan Shire and Katie Reid of AiW marks the first post in our second day of Africa Writes #Past&Present revisits over this… Read More ›

• 2018 Africa Writes #P&P – Building an Archive – Voices from the Panel “Loving Womxn: Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing”

  By Africa in Words on 4 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: this review of the panel ‘Loving Womxn’ at the 2018 Africa Writes Festival in London is part of our #Past&Present revisits of our coverage of the festival over the years, in the run-up to the digital conversations of… Read More ›

• 2016 Africa Writes #P&P Highlight Reel – ‘On Being a Woman Writer: Nawal El Saadawi’

  By Africa in Words on 4 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: As part of our Africa Writes #PastAndPresent weekend, and in the absence of the in-person festival in 2020, this highlight reel marks the headline event at Africa Writes 2016, “On Being a Woman Writer: Nawal El Saadawi in… Read More ›

• 2015 Africa Writes #P&P – Q&A with author and Africa Writes guest Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

  By Africa in Words on 4 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: this conversation between Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Emma Shercliff, prior to the Africa Writes’ 2015 Festival is the third post this weekend of some of our coverage over the years, in the run up to the digital conversations… Read More ›

• 2014 Africa Writes #P&P – Ama Ata Aidoo in Conversation: Review.

  By Africa in Words on 4 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: this review of the great Ama Ata Aidoo in conversation with Dr Wangui wa Goro at Africa Writes’ 2014 edition is the second of our cast backs to our attendance at the Festival over the years, in the… Read More ›

• 2013 Africa Writes #P&P – Q&A: Novelist, poet and literary scholar Mukoma wa Ngugi

  By Africa in Words on 4 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: As part of our Africa Writes #PastAndPresent weekend, in the absence of the in-person festival in 2020, this Q&A is the first in our cast back over our coverage of Africa Writes over the years, and is republished… Read More ›

• Back to Africa Writes – AiW’s #PastAndPresent – Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July, 2020.

  By Africa in Words on 3 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In the run-up to the digital conversations of a remote Africa Writes, the Royal Africa Society’s annual literature festival, 2020, we are running a selection of #PastAndPresent posts from our archive of coverage of the Festival over the years. We’ve… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020: Tragedy and Trauma in a Roland Mouret Jacket: A Review of Grace Jones by Irenosen Okojie

  By Africa in Words Guest on 3 July , 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  AiW Note: AiW’s annual Caine Prize review series is back. We’ve been talking about prize culture for a long time at Africa in Words; Kate Wallis started off this series in 2013. Over the five Fridays in July, we are reviewing… Read More ›

• Conflicted writing: NGOs, African Literature and Autonomy. Review of Au-dessous du volcan

  By Africa in Words Guest on 30 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Madeline Bedecarré Note de la rédaction: L’équipe d’Africa in Words est ravie de présenter aujourd’hui notre premier post en deux langues ! Pour la version en français de ce compte-rendu, cliquez ici. Part anthology, part conference proceedings, part… Read More ›

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