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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

  By Africa in Words Guest on 6 July , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• The glue that binds: Hannah Giorgis’ “A Double-Edged Inheritance” – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022 reviews

  By Africa in Words Guest on 5 July , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Victims and Prey: The Agency of the Body Merchants in Billie McTernan’s “The Labadi Sunshine Bar”- AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022 reviews

  By Africa in Words Guest on 4 July , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Nnaemeka Ezema (Nigeria) 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. Today… Read More ›

• Q&A – Ayo Oyeku Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 April , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Today we bring you an inspiring Words on the Times – a Q&A series initiated to connect up our experiences of life and work as the pandemic hit – with writer and publisher Ayo Oyeku. Ayo Oyeku is a… Read More ›

• Review: “An Odyssean coming-of-age” – A Long Way from Douala by Max Lobe

  By Ellen Addis on 31 March , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Review Q&A: Max Lobe – On translation and his colourful Cameroonian novel, A Long Way from Douala

  By Ellen Addis on 31 March , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Q&A: Scholar-activist Kadija Sesay, on AfriPoeTree

  By Davina Philomena Kawuma on 23 March , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Q&A: On the NLNG Prize for Literary Criticism – Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè talks with 2020/21 prize winner, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 March , 2022 • ( 1 )

  

   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 ›

• Calls for & Opportunities… roundup of January 2022

  By Africa in Words on 9 February , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s our first catch up of 2022 with a selection of “calls for” posts – shout outs for opportunities and contributions – academic and creative – collated primarily from our Twitter feed for this one… Do get in touch and… Read More ›

• Q&A – iwalewabooks Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 January , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Today we bring you an inspiring Words on the Times – a Q&A series initiated to connect up our experiences of life and work as the pandemic hit – with the publishing house iwalewabooks. iwalewabooks is a publishing… Read More ›

• Q&A: Dr. Emmanuel E. Akanwa Interviews Gil Ndi-Shang on his newest collection, The Radio and Other Stories

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 January , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  With AiW Guests: Emmanuel E. Akanwa and Gil Ndi-Shang. AiW note: The Radio and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Cameroonian writer, Gil Ndi-Shang, recently released with Spears Books. “In The Radio and Other Stories, the scholar and the… Read More ›

• Calls for & Opportunities… roundup of November’s (2021)

  By Africa in Words on 7 December , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s our catch up with a monthly selection of “calls for” posts, for opportunities and contributions – academic and creative – that we’ve also been collating from various platforms we visit and revisit, and across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram…. Read More ›

• Q&A with Marius Roux, GBAS Book Cover Design Award Finalist

  By Africa in Words on 30 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Q&A: Casper Schutte, GBAS Book Cover Design Award Finalist

  By Africa in Words on 30 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• “Our discomfort, my discomfort”: a review of ‘Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global City’.

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

  

  AiW Guest: Kagiso Nko. It is part of how Joburg narrates itself, in particular to itself. Editors’ Introduction – Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden. AiW note: This review of Anxious Joburg (Wits UP) was completed before our accompanying Review… Read More ›

• Review Q&A: ‘Anxious Joburg: the inner lives of a Global South City’ with co-editor Nicky Falkof

  By Africa in Words on 10 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Ahead of our forthcoming review of Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City (Wits UP, 2020), we are publishing here an accompanying Q&A. Answering the questions is Nicky Falkof, co-editor (with Cobus van Staden) of the book.  Asking… Read More ›

• Calls for & Opportunities… roundup of October’s (2021)

  By Africa in Words on 5 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In a brief announcement of the latest from our sister post, the monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar from our social media feeds – we are retiring the ‘Wrap’ as was… ‘In other words…’, our retrospective… Read More ›

• Q&A with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike ~ Things that Matter & that Made Me

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

  

  Today, we are delighted to be sharing a couple of new quickfire AiW Q&As with Nigerian writer Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, where we talk about “Things that Matter” to makers’ and thinkers’ processes and selves…  In this case, we’re talking books… Read More ›

• Q&A – Siphiwo Mahala: Imbiza Journal for African Writing Words on the Times

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

  

  AiW Guest: Siphiwo Mahala. AIW note: Today we offer a Words on the Times Q&A from Siphiwo Mahala, Editor of Imbiza Journal for African Writing. Our Words on the Times series (available at the link) was initiated in April 2020… Read More ›

• Words on the Times & Call for Entries: Paige Nick, the GBAS Book Cover Design Awards 2021

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

    AiW Guest: Paige Nick. AiW note: today we bring you a combination post ~ a Words on the Times with Paige Nick – founder of The Good Book Appreciation Society, a Book Club on Facebook with over 16,000 members,… Read More ›

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