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Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews Ukamaka Olisakwe, author of “Ogadinma” (2020).
AiW note: Ukamaka Olisakwe’s Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right was released with Indigo Press in September and from Masobe Books on the 27th October this year – marking itself as a “feminist classic in the making” (Indigo). Here, Uchechukwu… Read More ›
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Creative Times “in the making”: unfolding the Keiskamma COVID-19 Tapestry of Resilience
AiW note: Posts over 5 days this week, have introduced the epic endeavour of the Keiskamma COVID-19 Resilience Tapestry being made by the Keiskamma Art Project in the rural hamlet of Hamburg, South Africa, through the place, the people –… Read More ›
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Creative Times & Living testimonies (1): Keiskamma artists on life and work, and the COVID-19 Tapestry of Resilience
AiW note: Our posts, running over 5 days this week, introduce the Keiskamma COVID-19 Resilience Tapestry through the place, the people – its makers – and their history. The ambitious tapestry, responding to the pandemic, is being made by the… Read More ›
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Creative Times & A Season of Regeneration: Keiskamma Art Project’s Tapestry of Resilience – A Preface
AiW note: The Keiskamma Art Project, in the rural hamlet of Hamburg, South Africa, is embarking on an ambitious tapestry in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next five posts will introduce the Keiskamma COVID-19 Resilience Tapestry through the place,… Read More ›
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Q&A Words on the Times, Outriders Africa: Donna Obaseki-Ogunnaike
Today, we are delighted to share a Words on the Times, Outriders Africa with Donna Obaseki-Ogunnaike – an Energy Law expert, speaker, humanivist ©, poet, writer and theatre practitioner, previously dubbed the ‘queen of spoken word poetry in Nigeria’ –… Read More ›
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The Fragile Beauty of Mangaliso Buzani’s “A Naked Bone”
In 2019, Mangaliso Buzani’s A Naked Bone won the African Poetry Book Fund’s Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. In a subsequent interview published in Africa in Dialogue, Buzani recalls how, upon hearing the news, he quicky phoned fellow poet and New Brighton resident, Mxolisi Nyezwa. This phone call is one that is particularly apt because when you read A Naked Bone there is, hidden within Buzani’s remarkable and dreamlike poetry, a touch of Nyezwa. There is a fragile sort of beauty that poignantly captures a deeply personal suffering.
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Q&A Words on the Times, Outriders Africa: Nadine Aisha Jassat
AiW note: Outriders Africa, a project announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2019, builds on the existing ambitious Outriders concept, exploring “the idea that in shifting, disorienting times, a writer can make a unique contribution to our understanding… Read More ›
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African Jim: A Review of Christopher Mlalazi’s ‘The Border Jumper’
AiW Guest: Thulani Angoma-Mzini. In The Border Jumper (2019), Christopher Mlalazi upends the “Jim comes to Joburg” trope about the trafficking of rural dreams in a big city. Mlalazi has created a grimy, high-speed chase, shoot-‘em-up style novel written with… Read More ›
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Q&A: Words on the Times with Ivan Vladislavic on “The Distance”
South African novelist Vladislavić delivers a moving, closely observed study in family dynamics in a time of apartheid…Vladislavić’s tale unfolds with grace and precision. A memorable, beautifully written story of love and loss. — Kirkus, Starred Review Ivan Vladislavić’s latest… Read More ›
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Words on Teaching – Joanna Woods and Nicklas Hållén
AiW note: In our “Teaching” focus as part of our “Words on…” series, we’re thinking around print culture – books, images, texts, mags, spaces – and broad senses of what “teaching” might be, do, mean, or how it might produce… Read More ›
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Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews Prof. Chielozona Eze
AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike. In another of the in-depth conversations offered to us from AiW guest and friend Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Chielozona Eze discusses his work in ethics and literary study — particularly in relation to the uses to… Read More ›
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The Treachery of Words: A Review of ‘Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu?’
AiW Guest: Thulani Angoma-Mzini In the anthology Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu (2019), award winning author Niq Mhlongo convenes a parliament of the who’s who of South African literati to dissect the term ‘black tax’. In South Africa the term… Read More ›
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Words on the Times ›
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Q&A: Words on the Times – Irene Staunton of Weaver Press
22 January , 2021
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Q&A: Words on the Times – Fay Gadsden of Gadsden Publishers
15 January , 2021
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Q&A: Words on the Times – Menzi Thango of Bhiyoza Publishers
18 December , 2020
AiW Featured ›
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In other Words… AiW news and December’s wrap
12 January , 2021
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Our 2020 Festive Favourites: Season’s Reading from Africa in Words
24 December , 2020
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In other Words… AiW news and October’s wrap
11 November , 2020
AiW Q&A ›
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Q&A: Words on the Times – Shiraz Durrani and Kimani Waweru from Vita Books
11 December , 2020
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Q&A: Words on the Times– Francis Nyamnjoh and Kathryn Toure from Langaa RPCIG
4 December , 2020
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Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews Abubakar Adam Ibrahim about his latest collection “Dreams and Assorted Nightmares” (2020)
1 December , 2020
Reviews - Books ›
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Review: A Community Forms, a Community Mourns: The Death of Vivek Oji
19 January , 2021
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Review of “Paul Mpagi Sepuya”: ‘between desired object and desiring subject’.
16 December , 2020
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Review: Stephen Embleton’s “Soul Searching”
8 December , 2020