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• 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 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

• L’écriture conflictuelle: les ONG, la littérature africaine et l’autonomie. Compte-rendu de Au-dessous du volcan

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

  

  Auteure invitée: Madeline Bedecarré AiW note: We are thrilled to publish today our first dual-language review! For the English-language version of this post, click here. Mi recueil de nouvelles, mi actes du colloque, avec un parfum de manifeste littéraire, Au-dessous… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times & Women leading in the arts – Carol Bouwer & Elana Brundyn of the Norval Foundation share their insights in a time of disruption.

  By Africa in Words on 26 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “We must ensure that the women on our continent know that Elana Brundyn with her illustrious background in the art world, chose to attach her name as CEO to this great monument, and to serve with Nku Heita Nyembezi who… Read More ›

• “I wish for my poems and music to do away with things I’m sure about. I wish for them to undo me, to unmake me”: Q&A with Petero Kalulé.

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

  

  AiW Guest: Esther Mirembe. Petero Kalulé is a composer, poet, and multi-instrumentalist. Their music can be bought and listened to via Bandcamp, and their collection of poems Kalimba was published by Guillemot Press in May 2019 – you can buy… Read More ›

• Q&A: “It has lifted the spirits of many theatre makers who were feeling isolated and frustrated”: #LockdownShakespeare and Words on the Times

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

  

  In April, with theatre stages empty following the COVID-19 pandemic, Shakespeare ZA — a project of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa (SSOSA), set up to promote the work of South African theatre-makers, film-makers, translators, researchers and writers engaging with… Read More ›

• Words on the Times and a Past & (Everyone is) Present – Re-presenting Andrew van der Vlies’ review of Terry Kurgan’s “Everyone is Present”

  By Africa in Words on 17 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Yesterday, we published South African artist and photographer Terry Kurgan’s Words on the Times, an AiW Q&A set that offers a space for connection during the distancing measures necessitated by the coronavirus. In her responses, Kurgan discusses the copies… Read More ›

• Q&A:Words on the Times – Terry Kurgan

  By Tom Penfold on 16 June , 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Kurgan has achieved something rare in this book: a truly dynamic fusion of text and image. She brings a deep knowledge of craft to everyday images, whether she’s teasing fugitive meanings from a creased pre-war snapshot or taking the pulse… Read More ›

• Words on… Past & Present: re-presenting Jumoke Verissimo’s review of Elnathan John’s ‘Born on a Tuesday’ – The Truth Outside Context

  By Africa in Words on 13 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: This re-post of Jumoke Verissimo’s review of Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday (Cassava Republic, 2016), was first published on AiW as part of the celebrations for the launch of Cassava Republic Press in the UK, back on this same… Read More ›

• Words on… Past & Present: re-presenting Temitayo Olofinlua’s review of Jumoke Verissimo’s ‘A Small Silence’ – In the Dark

  By Africa in Words on 12 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Reposting this, Temitayo Olofinlua’s review, sees it as the third post this week in a mini-series around Jumoke Verissimo’s haunting and lyrical debut novel published last year, A Small Silence (Cassava Republic). Earlier in the week, Verissimo offered us… Read More ›

• A Box Full of Darkness: The Spaces of Trauma in Jumoke Verissimo’s “A Small Silence”

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

  

  AiW Guest: James Yeku. AiW note: Anticipating this review, yesterday Jumoke Verissimo, author of A Small Silence (Cassava Republic), offered us her Words on the Times, a Q&A set that offers a space for connection in the experiences of the… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Jumoke Verissimo

  By Africa in Words on 9 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “A Small Silence feels like an act of literary disruption. Hypnotic, expertly crafted and full of subtle power, it challenges cultural norms around silence, darkness and solitude, leaving the reader changed in ways that are hard to define.” Irenosen Okojie, Guardian… Read More ›

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