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• Q&A: Words on the Times – Colleen Higgs, writer & publisher Modjaji Books.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 May , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Colleen Higgs founded Modjaji Books in 2007 as a platform for work by women writers from southern Africa. Modjaji, the Rain Queen of Limpopo, is a “powerful female force for good, new life and regeneration”. The press continues her work… Read More ›

• Q&A: Between the Generations- An Anthology for Ama Ata Aidoo at 80

  By Africa in Words Guest on 12 May , 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  Ft. AiW Guests: Ivor Agyeman-Duah, Ray Ndebi, Ayesha Harruna Attah, and Martin Egblewogbe. AiW note: The launch of Between the Generations- An Anthology for Ama Ata Aidoo at 80, due to be hosted by Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Wasafiri New Writing Prize (Deadline: 15 June)

  By Africa in Words on 9 May , 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  One of the many impacts of COVID-19 has been on writers’ schedules and headspace. Wasafiri– a dynamic platform for mapping new landscapes in contemporary international writing – is acknowledging this by extending the deadline for their new writing prize. The… Read More ›

• Q&A: Deep South’s Robert Berold on Poetry and Publishing in South Africa

  By Tom Penfold on 7 May , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Robert Berold is a South African poet and editor, author of four books of poetry and four books of non-fiction. Between 1989 and 1999 he edited the poetry journal New Coin and went on to edit a selection of New… Read More ›

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

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

  

  As we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, our round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our platforms – has moved to a monthly edition for April. Please be in touch… Read More ›

• Q&A with Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King: “No one stays static, so language should not be static.”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 30 April , 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW Guests: Korranda Harris & Birhanu Gessese Maaza Mengiste is an Ethiopian-American writer who has published two novels: Beneath the Lion’s Gaze (2010) and The Shadow King (2019). Mengiste’s fiction paints engaging portraits of life and engages with the themes… Read More ›

• Q&A – Barbara Adair’s Words on the Times for her novel, ‘WILL, The Passenger Delaying Flight…’ (Modjaji Books)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 April , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In a dystopian world that has served up an imperfect future, Adair breathes life into the limbo and emotional baggage of her characters as they travel across the world. Karabo K. Kgoleng – broadcaster, public speaker, writer Recently we caught up… Read More ›

• The 23rd Time of the Writer: The First Virtual Literary Festival of 2020

  By Africa in Words Guest on 25 April , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The 23rd Time of the Writer International Festival – scheduled to take place in Durban, South Africa from 16th to 21st March – went online this year. In spite of challenges posed by the global pandemic, University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre… Read More ›

• Review: Yolande Mukagasana’s ‘Not My Time to Die’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 24 April , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guests: Inês Martinho Ferreira and Kiera Fields Kwibuka means ‘to remember’ and describes the annual commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Last year, as part of Kwibuka 25, Rwandan publisher Huza Press published Yolande Mukagasana’s… Read More ›

• Q&A with writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: On Writing Place

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 April , 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guests: Brittany Willis and Catrin Williams Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan writer currently living in Manchester. Her first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani 2013 Manuscript Project and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Her most recent… Read More ›

• Review: What Diaspora Means Now – Nuruddin Farah’s ‘North of Dawn’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 18 April , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Rashi Rohatgi. AiW note: We caught up with novelist, poet, and professor of World Literature – our guest author and reviewer here, Rashi Rohatgi – to ask for some of her Words on the times – an AiW… Read More ›

• Online event: ‘The Cape Cod Bicycle War’ – Billy Kahora in conversation at the Polis Project’s Virtual Book Salon

  By Africa in Words Guest on 16 April , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Writer and editor Billy Kahora’s highly anticipated story collection, The Cape Cod Bicycle War: and Other Stories – originally published by Huza Press (Kigali) in 2019 and available in Africa – made its US debut with Ohio University Press this… Read More ›

• Q&A with Angela Wachuka – Literary producer and co-founder of Book Bunk

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

  

  AiW Guests: Jess Irving and Jessica Smith Angela Wachuka is one of Kenya’s leading literary producers. In 2018, with Wanjiru Koinange, she founded Book Bunk. From 2008 to 2017, Wachuka was Executive Director of Kwani Trust, where she published Africa’s… Read More ›

• In other Words… AiW news and quarterly wrap (Jan-March 2020)

  By Africa in Words on 8 April , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  A round-up of other words – our top posts & quarterly news – on AiW’s radar, collated from across our platforms, January through March (with an added wish for safety and health for you and yours as we head on… Read More ›

• Words from AiW…

  By Kristen Stern on 30 March , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  25 March 2020, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. In my day job as faculty member in a university near Boston, I began an email to my students the other day, addressing the changes we are making to move instruction online for the… Read More ›

• Event: CIAD’s 2nd Biennial Conference: Textiles and Fabrics as Material Culture in the African Diaspora (10 October)

  By Africa in Words on 28 March , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The Costume Institute of the African Diaspora’s (CIAD) 2nd Biennial Conference London College of Fashion New date: 10 October, 2020 Bringing together academics and researchers from across the world who are working within the field of Material Culture, African Fashion,… Read More ›

• Exhibition: Michael Armitage at Norval Foundation (South Africa, June 2020)

  By Africa in Words on 25 March , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Norval Foundation brings rising Venice Biennale star Michael Armitage to South Africa At just 35, Kenyan artist Michael Armitage is swiftly emerging as one of the most exciting young voices of contemporary art, heralded as a stand-out artist at the… Read More ›

• Q&A with writer Olumide Popoola: “If we can’t imagine anything different, we can never strive for change”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 23 March , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: This conversation follows on from our cast back to last March (2019) and Chelsea Haith’s review of the Q&A’s main text, Popoola’s 2017 novel, When We Speak of Nothing: ‘Experimental…Representative and Complex’  – #PastAndPresent .  AiW Guests: René… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Film Africa 2020 (Deadline: 30 June)

  By Africa in Words on 21 March , 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  Film Africa 2020 30 October – 8 November London, UK Film Africa is the Royal African Society’s biennial London festival, celebrating the best African and African diaspora cinema from across the continent. Now in its ninth year, Film Africa has… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2020 (Deadline: 31 March)

  By Africa in Words on 18 March , 2020 • ( 0 )

  We are delighted to share that The Nigeria Prize for Literature is calling for entries for an edition in prose fiction and for an edition in literary criticism this year. The prize usually rotates among four literary genres – prose… Read More ›

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