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• Q&A -‘Farewell Amor’ (2020) filmmaker Ekwa Msangi: talking immigration, cultural specificity, and racism in cinema

  By Africa in Words Guest on 4 June , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guests: Libby Gervais, Abi Taphouse, James Truscott & Maddy Holmes  “Let’s actually think about who they are, not just what they are here to take from us”. Ekwa Msangi. Ekwa Msangi is a film director, writer and producer, who has… Read More ›

• May’s Calls for & Opportunities… roundup

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

  

  Jump to: Scholarly & Academic Creative-Critical – Makers & Producers Alongside our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar that isn’t already on the site — we are introducing a new “Calls for” post this month, for… Read More ›

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

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

  

  Catching up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. We have also introduced a separate “Calls for” post in our “Other Words” this month, rounding up opportunities… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Art And About Africa

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 May , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Art And About Africa is a free platform that allows its users to discover artists and art spaces in the vibrant African art scene on the continent, facilitating where to go, what to see, and who to engage… Read More ›

• Review: “You only need the mbira” – T.L. Huchu’s ‘The Library of the Dead’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 May , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Ranka Primorac. By the time I twigged that T. L. Huchu’s The Library of the Dead was not aimed at my age group, it was no longer an option to stop reading. The author of the deft appropriation… Read More ›

• Review: Making Death Part of Daily Life – Véronique Tadjo’s ‘In The Company Of Men’

  By Davina Philomena Kawuma on 25 May , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Véronique Tadjo is a writer and painter from Ivory Coast. This year marks the release of her latest novel in translation, In the Company of Men: the Ebola Tales (with HopeRoad Publishing, first pub. En Compagnie des Hommes,… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Marina Novelli on “Building Bridges through Contemporary Arts”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 May , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The Building Bridges through Contemporary Arts Online Panel Discussions Series is part of a University of Brighton initiative that facilitates a contemporary art-based dialogue between key stakeholders from Africa and Europe. Based on participants’ personal and professional local and global… Read More ›

• Q&A: Véronique Tadjo – On opening up new possibilities with In the Company of Men

  By Davina Philomena Kawuma on 18 May , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Brief and haunting, this makes for a timely testament to the destructive powers of pandemics’ – Publishers Weekly Véronique Tadjo is a writer and painter from Ivory Coast. This year marks the release of her latest novel in translation, In… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Open Hearts Big Dreams & Ready Set Go Books

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 May , 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW note: Open Hearts Big Dreams (OHBD) is a not-for-profit organisation working to provide literacy resources and opportunities for students in Ethiopia. Their main project is Ready Set Go Books, an innovative effort to increase literacy in Ethiopia. OHBD publishes… Read More ›

• Q&A: Alexander Nderitu – trailblazing ‘When the Whirlwind Passes’ from digital to print

  By Davina Philomena Kawuma on 12 May , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘That great Kenyan novel will eventually come. Perhaps, it will even emerge online, like the novels of Alexander Nderitu.’ – Joyce Nyairo, cultural analyst, Daily Nation Alexander Nderitu is a Kenyan poet, novelist, and playwright and critic. He is also an arts analyst… Read More ›

• Q&A: The New Brighton Art School – Khaya Gqomo

  By Tom Penfold on 7 May , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  With AiW Guests: Dolla Sapeta and Khaya Gqomo. A few weeks ago, Africa in Words published the first of our pioneering posts promoting the work of the New Brighton Art School. We sat down with Dolla Sapeta, its founder, to… Read More ›

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

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

  

  Catching up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. April’s most read Reviews and General posts one from #Present | & one from our archives – #Past (click… Read More ›

• Q&A with poet Romeo Oriogun: Sacrament of Bodies

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

  

  AiW Guests: Fisayo Amodu, Dora Houghton & Bryony Gooch. Romeo Oriogun is an award-winning poet from Nigeria. His previous work includes the chapbooks Burnt Men, The Origin of Butterflies and Museum of Silence. He was also awarded the 2017 Brunel… Read More ›

• Review: Can We Really Decolonize the American University? – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at the University of Yale, 2021.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 April , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Kadiatou Keita. It was exhilarating at first. I cheered Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on like he was performing. The March 2021 installment of the University of Yale’s English Department organised ‘African Writers in Conversation Series‘ featured Ngũgĩ wa… Read More ›

• Q&A with Abubakar Adam Ibrahim: “Writing the history of the present”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 20 April , 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guests: Yasmine Arasteh, Skye Frewin & Sally Wright. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a prominent Nigerian writer and journalist. He is the author of the short story collection The Whispering Trees (2012), the novel Season of Crimson Blossoms (2015), and… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Teesa Bahana of 32° East I Ugandan Arts Trust

  By Africa in Words Guest on 16 April , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Following Lizzy Attree’s Words on the Times, in which she spoke about teaching and fundraising during a pandemic; Dami Ajayi’s responses to the same Q&A, in which he discussed his experiences of working as a doctor and writer… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Nduka Otiono

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 April , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Nduka Otiono, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada AiW note: Yesterday we celebrated the African release of Wreaths for a Wayfarer (Narrative Landscape Press), published in honour of writer, academic, and esteemed beloved mentor and Nigerian public intellectual, Pius Adesanmi, who lost… Read More ›

• Celebrating World Poetry Day with readings from Wreaths for A Wayfarer

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 April , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guests: Nduka Otiono and Uche Peter Umezurike. AiW note: by way of introduction to our Guest post here, we are very pleased to be able to share with the editors news of the African release of Wreaths for a… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 6 April , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  This month marks one year since we began our wrap ups of African literary and cultural news! Since then, we have moved to monthly wraps and as we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, we catch… Read More ›

• “We can draw from the past and create something new, or we can just present the past as it was”: Talking Nostalgia, Memory, and Creative Collaboration with Wanjeri Gakuru

  By Africa in Words Guest on 1 April , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guests: Isobella Norman, Leyla Mohammed and Leoni Fretwell. Wanjeri Gakuru is a freelance journalist, essayist and filmmaker invested in gender equality and social justice. From 2018, Wanjeri has been the Managing Editor of Jalada Africa, a Pan-African writers’ collective… Read More ›

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