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Q&As: Elisa Diallo – Judge, AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
AiW note: As part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we’ve been running AiW Guest reviews of each of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award, and this week, as we lead up to the winner announcement on Monday… Read More ›
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Q&As: Idza Luhumyo – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
AiW note: As part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we’ve been running AiW Guest reviews of each of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award, and this week, as we lead up to the winner announcement on Monday… Read More ›
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Q&As: Hannah Giorgis – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
Last week, as part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we ran Guest reviews of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award. This week, and leading up to the winner announcement on Monday 18 July, we are very pleased… Read More ›
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Q&As: Akashic Books’ Johanna Ingalls – Publisher, AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
Last week, as part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we ran Guest reviews of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award. This week, and leading up to the winner announcement on Monday 18 July, we are very pleased… Read More ›
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The illusion of choice: a review of “Five Years Next Sunday” by Idza Luhumyo – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022 reviews
AiW Guest: Yamikani Mlangiza (Malawi) AiW note: Today’s post is the fifth in our annual guest reviews of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize 5 shortlisted stories. We’ll also be publishing Q&As with the shortlisted authors and, as in our previous years… Read More ›
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“Sacks tied around our necks”: Joshua Chizoma’s ‘Collector of Memories’ – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022 reviews
AiW Guest: Innocent Akilimale Ngulube (Malawi) AiW note: The penultimate in our annual guest reviews of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize 5 shortlisted stories runs today. We’ll also be publishing Q&As with authors and others working with this year’s Prize,… Read More ›
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‘Till Death Do Us Part’: A Review of ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ by Nana-Ama Danquah – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022 reviews
AiW Guest: Joseph Kwanya (Kenya) Today’s post is the third of our annual guest reviews of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award in 2022. We’ll also be running Q&As with authors and others working with this year’s Prize, all… Read More ›
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The glue that binds: Hannah Giorgis’ “A Double-Edged Inheritance” – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022 reviews
AiW Guest: Megan Brune (South Africa) AiW note: we’ve been holding a series of critical conversations around the work of the Caine Prize, now the AKO Caine Prize, each year since we first joined its “blogathon carnival” back in 2013…. Read More ›
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Review: “An Odyssean coming-of-age” – A Long Way from Douala by Max Lobe
AiW note: Max Lobe was born in Douala, Cameroon. Last year marked the first publication in English translation of A Long Way from Douala (HopeRoad and Small Axes 2021, translated by Ros Schwartz), a novel which tackles important issues such as… Read More ›
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Review Q&A: Max Lobe – On translation and his colourful Cameroonian novel, A Long Way from Douala
AiW note: Last year marked the first publication in English translation of Max Lobe’s novel A Long Way from Douala (HopeRoad – Small Axes 2021), translated by Ros Schwartz. Important issues of violence, terrorism, homosexuality and migration feature in A Long… Read More ›
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Q&A: Scholar-activist Kadija Sesay, on AfriPoeTree
AiW note: In 2016, writer, editor, academic, and publisher Kadija Sesay developed the ‘Modern Pan-Africanist’s Journey’ app as part of the Research and Development funding (UK) that she received from Arts Council England, for her second poetry book of the… Read More ›
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Q&A: On the NLNG Prize for Literary Criticism – Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè talks with 2020/21 prize winner, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
AiW Guests: Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè and NLNG Prize for Literary Criticism winner 2020/2021, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike. AiW note: We are very pleased to be able to share this conversation between writers and literary journalists, particularly for Adégòkè’s focus in on some… Read More ›
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Q&A with Marius Roux, GBAS Book Cover Design Award Finalist
AiW note: Ahead of the announcement of the winner of the GBAS Book Cover Design Awards tomorrow, December 1st, we have been able to catch up with two of the finalists, Casper Schutte and Marius Roux. We asked them some… Read More ›
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Words on… Revisiting the Afritondo Short Story Prize – #PastAndPresent
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Q&A – #ReadingAfrica: African Literary Magazine Editors on Curating for the Continent
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Q&A: Mukoma Wa Ngugi – teasing out the Tizita, and probing poetry and prizes
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Q&A: George Norman Sylvester – Ananse comics, Captain Pepsodent and African superheroes in 1990s Ghana
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Q&As: Rachel Zadok from Short Story Day Africa- Publisher, AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
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Review Q&A: ‘Anxious Joburg: the inner lives of a Global South City’ with co-editor Nicky Falkof
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