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• Q&A: Words on the Times – Kwame Osei-Poku

  By Africa in Words Guest on 19 February , 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW note: Earlier this week we published Kwame Osei-Poku’s review of Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction From Cameroon and Nigeria (2020, The Mantle). Compiled by Dami Ajayi, Dzekashu MacViban, and Emmanuel Iduma, Limbe to Lagos is an edited collection of non-fiction… Read More ›

• A Sense of Africa in The Exploration of Reminiscences: A Review of  Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction From Cameroon and Nigeria

  By Africa in Words Guest on 16 February , 2021 • ( 1 )

  

   AiW Guest: Kwame Osei-Poku (Ph.D.), University of Ghana. When a collection of stories succeeds in making its readers identify with and care about real issues, triggering sensations of empathy and reinforcing readers’ own reminiscences, we realise the powerful impact of… Read More ›

• Got my hair, got my head: A review of Living While Feminist: Our Bodies, Our Truths

  By Africa in Words Guest on 9 February , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Thulani Angoma-Mzini There is a silence, or perhaps a deafness, that the lay man (and particularly the cis-gendered heterosexual man) indulges in when it comes to bodies gendered differently to theirs. The collection of essays titled Living While… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 2 February , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  It has been a lit first month of 2021! As we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, we catch up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ we haven’t had out already on the site –… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Elma Shaw of Cotton Tree Press

  By Africa in Words Guest on 29 January , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: To celebrate the past thirty years of independent distributing and bookselling at African Books Collective (ABC), we are running a series highlighting the wonderful work of those who make up ABC. We will be talking to some of… Read More ›

• A Nation in Motion? A Review of Billy Kahora’s The Cape Cod Bicycle War (2)

  By wesleymacheso89 on 27 January , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: This week, we bring you two reviews of Billy Kahora’s short story collection, The Cape Cod Bicycle Wars and Other Stories – originally published by Huza Press (Kigali) in 2019 and made available in the US with Ohio University Press in… Read More ›

• Review: Billy Kahora’s The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories (1)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 January , 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Ofonime Inyang. AiW note: This week, we bring you two reviews of Billy Kahora’s short story collection, The Cape Cod Bicycle Wars and Other Stories – originally published by Huza Press (Kigali) in 2019 and made available in the US… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Irene Staunton of Weaver Press

  By Africa in Words Guest on 22 January , 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW note: To celebrate the past thirty years of independent distributing and bookselling at African Books Collective (ABC), we are running a series highlighting the wonderful work of those who make up ABC. We will be talking to some of… Read More ›

• Review: A Community Forms, a Community Mourns: The Death of Vivek Oji

  By Africa in Words Guest on 19 January , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Rashi Rohatgi. We’ve been a fan of Akwaeke Emezi’s writing since the pre-launch of their debut, Freshwater, at Africa Writes 2018; after that luminous novel and its YA successor, Pet, Emezi is back with what is perhaps 2020’s… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Fay Gadsden of Gadsden Publishers

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 January , 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW note: To celebrate the past thirty years of independent distributing and bookselling at African Books Collective (ABC), we are running a series highlighting the wonderful work of those who make up ABC. We will be talking to some of… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 12 January , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy New Year! After a short break, we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, and catch up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ from the end of 2020 – news on AiW’s radar, collated from… Read More ›

• Our 2020 Festive Favourites: Season’s Reading from Africa in Words

  By Africa in Words on 24 December , 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  After a difficult year for everyone, the holiday time is looking harder than before. A time to normally spend with family and relaxation has become one of stress and uncertainty. However, we hope that the holidays can still be a… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Menzi Thango of Bhiyoza Publishers

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

  

  AiW note: To celebrate the past thirty years of independent distributing and bookselling at African Books Collective (ABC), we are running a series highlighting the wonderful work of those who make up ABC. We will be talking to some of… Read More ›

• Review of “Paul Mpagi Sepuya”: ‘between desired object and desiring subject’.

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

  

  Sepuya’s portrait photography, described by the artist as ‘queer modernism’, disrupts the conventions of traditional studio portraiture, to become a site of homoerotic social relations: a space where the roles of artist and subject are constructed and contested. The book exposes Sepuya’s play with artifice and performance as it outlines the development of his visual practice, cataloguing how he uses his own body, and those of his intimate circle of friends and lovers, in ways which challenge notions of power and authorship. Deeply connected with the written word, he found in texts and literature a way to make sense of this ‘gap of language between desired object and desiring subject’ (p.14), the very gap in which his practice is located.

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Shiraz Durrani and Kimani Waweru from Vita Books

  By Africa in Words Guest on 11 December , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: To celebrate the past thirty years of independent distributing and bookselling at African Books Collective (ABC), we are running a series highlighting the wonderful work of those who make up ABC. We will be talking to some of… Read More ›

• Remembering Olive Schreiner 100 Years After Her Death

  By Africa in Words Guest on 10 December , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Jade Munslow Ong. AiW note: The 11th of December 2020 marks 100 years since Olive Schreiner’s death. Here, Jade Munslow Ong discusses Schreiner’s legacies as a pioneering feminist, anti-colonialist and author of the first South African novel.  100… Read More ›

• Review: Stephen Embleton’s “Soul Searching”

  By JoannaWoods on 8 December , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “The untapped knowledge on his doorstep in southern Africa was a continual source for honing his skills, and no amount of online reading and searching could replace face-to-face experiences with the people out in the dry Kalahari or the slippery… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times– Francis Nyamnjoh and Kathryn Toure from Langaa RPCIG

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

  

  AiW note: To celebrate the past thirty years of independent distributing and bookselling at African Books Collective (ABC), we are running a series highlighting the wonderful work of those who make up ABC. We will be talking to some of… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 3 December , 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’ we haven’t had out already on the site – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our social… Read More ›

• Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews Abubakar Adam Ibrahim about his latest collection “Dreams and Assorted Nightmares” (2020)

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

  

  AiW note: Dreams and Assorted Nightmares is Ibrahim’s third book and second story collection, newly released with Masobe Books. In the interview below, Umezurike and Ibrahim discuss the interconnecting fantastical short stories of the collection, their exploration of the “spaces… Read More ›

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